In a blog memo to Mike Turner, Stacey Campfield has quoted Fredrick Douglass. Douglass, a former slave, was a renowned author, editor, orator and abolitionist. Douglass firmly believed in the equality of all people, whether they be African American, Native Americans, female or immigrant.
Sigh… it’s too early to start drinking, isn’t it?
[...] Angelia points out that Stacey Campfield has used the words of none other than Fredrick Douglas to call out Representative Mike Turner. No doubt for what he said in frustration the day after the night the House Republican Caucus engaged in a brief parliamentary maneuver designed to shame Democrats into voting for an amendment to the cigarette tax bill so that the bill would then be sent back to the Senate who at that time had the numbers to defeat it. Turner said this at the time: “I don’t trust Republicans,” said Rep. Henry Fincher, D-Cookeville, during a stormy meeting of the House Democratic Caucus. “My heart says it’s not right to deal with them. [...]