Elisabeth Motsinger, a Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school board member and Wilkes County Democratic Party Chairwoman Treva Johnson are hoping to unseat Foxx this year.
Let’s not forget that voted against helping the victims of Katrina, and against the Voting Rights Act of 2006. The first bill sponsored by Foxx to have been signed into law since 2006, the Hero Act, signed by President Bush on Memorial Day, 2006, allows U.S. troops to increase their retirement savings by investing a portion of their combat pay into Individual Retirement Accounts.
We all know how she feels about the LGBT community.. So really lower herself worth when she told member of Congress that Matt’ death was hoax in front of late Matt’s mother who was sitting in the gallery.
Matthew Shepard Act
In April 2009, Foxx expressed opposition to the Matthew Shepard Act, claiming that the murder of Matthew Shepard was not a hate crime. While debating the act at the House of Representatives, which was attended by Matthew Shepard's mother, she called the incident a "very unfortunate incident" but also "we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn't because he was gay." She continued that "It's really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing hate crimes bills.” However, that statement is disputed by the police reports, the ensuing police investigation and by the trial testimony of the accused themselves. She was criticized by several media outlets and some congressional colleagues for that statement. It was also noted that Matthew Shepard's mother was present at the time.
Yet the boys told the judge in court, that they chose him because he was gay. I can only guess she didn’t have her glasses on,where she reading that part in the newspapers..
Let’s hope this year one of these to fine people can unseat her bigoted ass right out of office..
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