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bigdarryl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 03:39 PM
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The Senate has screwed up BIG time on the black farmers money
Edited on Fri Aug-06-10 03:39 PM by bigdarryl
I was listening to Warren Ballintine today interviewing the leader of the black farmers and there seriously thinking of going on a campaign to tell African Americans to sit out this coming election and not vote because this is the seventh time the Senate has refuse to vote for the money they won in court over a Discrimination law suit in 1999. This isn't good
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 03:51 PM
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1. wasn't the job offered to Sherrod
Edited on Fri Aug-06-10 03:51 PM by EC
linked to this?

So I think he must be working on something to get this settled.
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bigdarryl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 03:56 PM
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2. This has nothing to do with Sherrod there also pissed at
the Obama Administration promising Blanch Lincoln money to the white farmers that was far more than the law suit the black farmers won.
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 04:02 PM
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3. I thought the Administration had allocated this money
in the budget??
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 04:33 PM
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4. The Senate yanked it from the spending bill.
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Diamonique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-06-10 05:16 PM
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5. While I am definitely on the side of the black farmers in this,...
... I have no intention of sitting out this election.

The thought of Speaker Boehner and/or Majority Leader McConnell scares the hell out of me. We simply can NOT go there!
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