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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (164825)3/21/2010 10:46:17 AM
From: Hope Praytochange  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
Spitting and Slurs Directed at Lawmakers
By ROBERT PEAR
Thousands of opponents of the health care legislation circled the Capitol on Saturday waving signs and chanting slogans.

And while most of the invective was directed at the health care bill itself, several House members said there was an ugly tone to comments made by some demonstrators against three black lawmakers: Representatives André Carson of Indiana, Emanuel Cleaver II of Missouri and John Lewis of Georgia, all Democrats.

An aide to Mr. Lewis, a leader of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, said that as he walked to the Capitol, Mr. Lewis was called racial slurs. A spokesman for Mr. Cleaver said that a protester spat on the congressman as he was walking to the Capitol for a vote.

Democratic aides said some demonstrators made anti-gay remarks to Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, who is gay.

The No. 3 Democrat in the House, Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, said, “I heard people saying things today that I have not heard since March 15, 1960, when I was marching to try to get off the back of the bus.”
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