"In June of this year, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) introduced an amendment to halt the Pentagon's 1033 program, which distributes hundreds of millions of dollars of military-grade weapons and equipment to local police annually. The amendment overwhelmingly failed, and just seven out of 41 voting members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) supported it.
"That vote has drawn controversy in the wake of this summer's protests and grotesquely militarized police response in Ferguson, Mo. Ferguson's own congressman is Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.); he is a member of the CBC, and he voted against demilitarizing police.
"Now, The New York Times reports that the CBC is campaigning on what happened in Ferguson to turn out African-American voters for 2014, an effort which would presumably be more difficult were the CBC's record on police militarization more widely known. - - Bonnie Kristian
5 comments:
I'm guessing that the Congressional Black Caucus never charters a bus for an excursion to the race track or a casino or something.
I mean, how would they decide who has to sit in the back?
Any amendment that springs from the pen of Alan 'That Jew be Messugah" Grayson can pretty much be guaranteed to fail just from the fact of who its author is.
If Grayson proposed a "Sun sets in the West" amendment, it would probably die in committee.
There is an idea with a setback.
I'd love to give an IQ test to the Congressional Black Caucus.
The CBC is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dem Party.
Which means situational ethics, and morals, and facts, all the way down. Not to mention the entitled and oblivious stupidity that comes along with all that.
One third of sitting black caucus lawmakers have been named in an ethics probe during career
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