ill give him three years before he's caught in a french maid dress servicing a man he met on craig's list.
Nah, he's much more the type who talks little kids into helping him make white tinkle after Sunday school.
We've actually found education level is more important than closeness of relation for acceptance.
There is absolute rock solid demographic evidence that says that education=liberal=money. So that places like Seattle or San Francisco both of which have absurdly high levels of education among the populace are also very progressively liberal, and are two of the richest places in the United States. (they are also the two lowest TV watching populations) Low levels of education, and substandard education create poverty, and poorer areas are more conservative than richer areas.
It looks suspiciously like a republican drew the district lines so the "liberal city folk" could take the whole zone.
Gerrymandering knows no party or ideology, it only knows how to retain power. So there are lots of districts that are pretty absurd - or highly inventive - take your pick.
why wouldn't it be fair to assume that the opinions of this man represent a sizable subsect of pepole in Tennessee
Because you are only going by voters who voted him in. So that's like 45-55% of the voters who voted, and Tennessee had the second lowest eligible voter turn-out in the last election, so you're talking about half or less of a minority. I've always felt that there is a sizable portion of those who don't vote, who don't vote because idiots like this are running for office.
Nazism in a suit.
Funny, when people ask me what it was like working for Bechtel I always tell them it was like the Third Reich in suits.
the USA has a proud history of evolving as it accepts people from around the world. But sometime evolution seems to be very arrested.
Not arrested as much as regional. Even with the huge immigration numbers the immigrant populations are not equally distributed. And Chattanooga is a backwash area (Important places in Tennessee are Memphis, Nashville and Oak Ridge - while Memphis and Nashville are justifiably famous for music and commercial dealings, and Oak Ridge is all atomic high-tech, Chattanooga is famous for a choo-choo train that hasn't run for decades and decades, and Moon Pies) of a mid-level inland state, so it's numbers are going to be low as immigrants tend to large urban locations in coastal states that are areas of economic expansion and opportunity.
And sadly it seems to be public officials who are open to it. How much power does a fool like this have? Or is it just an irrelevant twit?
Like I quoted Frank as saying, politics is the entertainment branch of industry in the United States. And in their wisdom our Founding Fathers who viewed all politicians as something lower than pond scum, and in our traditions since then people in the United States have not just an overwhelming distrust of political types, we flat out hate on them. We have a system of governmental powers so convoluted that really only a Byzantine emperor could really understand it. All of that balance of powers, separation of powers, and what is local, state and federal is designed to keep real power as far away from people like this as it can be. It's not like he got it passed or anything. Hell, he couldn't even keep anyone in the Senate as sponsor. And for the Honorable Representative Dillweed here - in order to get it passed and have power - would have had to win the vote in the lower house, then a separate vote in the senate, and had the gov sign it. He didn't even get it out of committee (I'm not even sure it went to committee). This is just some grandstanding window dressing for the idiots who voted him in.
Geez, must live under the same rock as your chap.
Stupid knows no borders, no political party and no ideology. I'm pretty sure it's the most common thing in the universe.
