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Update: War On Women

Mike

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A Democratic state representative in Massachusetts is currently in jail for assaulting his then-girlfriend for refusing to have sex with him, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People doesn't think he should be expelled from the legislature for that.

Rep. Carlos Henriquez, a member of the Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus, was convicted Jan. 15 of assault and battery for punching and choking 25-year-old Katherine Gonzalves. Despite being sentenced to six months in jail for the alleged attack, the NAACP thinks Henriquez should continue to legislate.

“The NAACP, New England Area Conference, respectfully requests that the Massachusetts House of Representatives abstain from voting in the matter of the expulsion of Rep. Carlos Henriquez, expected to come before the House today,” the NAACEP said. “In the alternative, members of the House are asked to vote against the expulsion of their colleague.”



Henriquez’s conviction is under appeal, and the NAACP reminded the legislature that it has “no rule for expulsion that applies to misdemeanor convictions.”

Henriquez maintains his innocence, which is apparently good enough for the NAACP.

“Representative Henriquez was duly elected by the electorate and there is no legal basis upon which the House of Representatives can properly act,” the NAACP said. “Delaying any decision on the House Ethics Committee’s recommendation at this time would allow for a fair process to take place, as required under the law.”

So, apparently it’s okay to beat up women and remain a member of the Massachusetts legislature, according to the NAACP.

Talk about a war on women.
 

Steve

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at least the liberals did the right thing.. well most of them..

Kidnapping and assault charge

Henriquez was charged with assault and kidnapping of a woman in July 2012 and released after posting $1000 bond. In September, the kidnapping charge was dropped, though the others remained.[3] On January 14, 2014, Henriquez was convicted of two counts assault and battery charges and sentenced to 2.5 years in jail, with six months to be served in the Middlesex House of Correction and the remaining two years to be spent on probation.[4]

On February 6, 2014, the House of Representatives voted 146 to 5 to expel Henriquez. [5] It was the first time since Harry Foster's expulsion in 1916 that the House had expelled one of its members.

five .. voted against the measure. makes you wonder what their rationale was?



The five members who voted against expulsion were Russell E. Holmes of Mattapan, Denise Provost of Somerville, Gloria L. Fox of Roxbury, Carl Sciortino of Medford, and Benjamin Swan of Springfield.
(two black males, one black female, one white female, and one white male kid)

sure would like to hear their explanations if I lived in one of those districts.
 

hopalong

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When I saw the title of this post you can guess my thoughts about who it was :D :D :D
By his slams on Tam, faster horses sand the other women on here
 

Tam

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hopalong said:
When I saw the title of this post you can guess my thoughts about who it was :D :D :D
By his slams on Tam, faster horses sand the other women on here

Funny that never even crossed my mind. :wink: I was thinking he was talking about the inequality in the Obama White House and how for a guy that spews his objection to inequality he is paying his female staff less than his male buddies.

Obama White House Hypocritically Pays Women Less Than Men
Posted 01/30/2014 06:49 PM ET

Paycheck Fairness: The president who repeated the feminist "77 cents" myth and touted equal pay for equal work in the State of the Union hasn't practiced what he preaches with the women he employs.

The feminist heroine that prompted the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act might be surprised to learn of the Obama White House's war on women, paying its female staffers only 87 cents on the dollar compared with their male counterparts. So when Obama lectured that "women deserve equal pay for equal work," he hasn't exactly been true to his school.
 
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