Marsha Blackburn the racist bigot of Tennessee

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Monday openly admitted that she opposed the latest reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) because it included protections for LGBT, Native American, and undocumented victims of domestic violence.

Yes she think the VAWA is only for Straight white women only. She doesn’t care if Black, Latino or native American women are abuses, and if they are lesbians then they get what they deserve.

On MSNBC, Blackburn pointed out that the latest iteration of the law protects “different groups” and thus dilutes funding for straight, non-Native American women with the proper documentation:

When you start to make this about other things it becomes an “against violence act” and not a targeted focus act… I didn’t like the way it was expanded to include other different groups. What you need is something that is focused specifically to help the shelters and to help out law enforcement, who is trying to work with the crimes that have been committed against women and helping them to stand up.

This is a racist that would make the KKK or Nazi’s happy to have on their side.

Who knows maybe one day Charles Blackburn will beat the hell out of her in front of her daughter Mary, while telling their son Chad that women are nothing at all, that they don’t deserve protection under the law, that they are trash.. After all they live Tennessee, and she is from Mississippi.

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Bill Clinton Flip Flop on DOMA

Yes, after signing this bill into law 17 years, he now say it tell for it to be over turn. Has he seen the light at the end of his political tunnel, one can only hope.

”When I signed the bill, I included a statement with the admonition that “enactment of this legislation should not, despite the fierce and at times divisive rhetoric surrounding it, be understood to provide an excuse for discrimination.” Reading those words today, I know now that, even worse than providing an excuse for discrimination, the law is itself discriminatory. It should be overturned.

We are still a young country, and many of our landmark civil rights decisions are fresh enough that the voices of their champions still echo, even as the world that preceded them becomes less and less familiar. We have yet to celebrate the centennial of the 19th Amendment, but a society that denied women the vote would seem to us now not unusual or old-fashioned but alien. I believe that in 2013 DOMA and opposition to marriage equality are vestiges of just such an unfamiliar society.

Americans have been at this sort of a crossroads often enough to recognize the right path. We understand that, while our laws may at times lag behind our best natures, in the end they catch up to our core values. One hundred fifty years ago, in the midst of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln concluded a message to Congress by posing the very question we face today: “It is not ‘Can any of us imagine better?’ but ‘Can we all do better?’?”

The answer is of course and always yes. In that spirit, I join with the Obama administration, the petitioner Edith Windsor, and the many other dedicated men and women who have engaged in this struggle for decades in urging the Supreme Court to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act.”

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NCGA House Calendar - March 11, 2013

The House Calendar has been posted to the NCGA website.
http://www.ncleg.net/Calendars/CurrentCalendars/CurrentHouseCalendar.pdf

HOUSE CALENDAR 24th Legislative Day Monday, March 11, 2013 House Convenes at 7:00 P.M.

Thom Tillis, Speaker

INTRODUCED BILLS

(Reminder: Members may electronically cosponsor these bills until 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday)

HB	253	Goodman, Lucas, Floyd and C. Graham (Primary Sponsors) - VOTER PROTECTION AND INTEGRITY ACT.
HB	254	Glazier, Lewis, Szoka and Lucas (Primary Sponsors) - ZONING CHANGES/NOTICE TO MILITARY BASES.
HB	255	Glazier, Johnson and Holloway (Primary Sponsors) - UNC TUITION SURCHARGE/ADVANCE NOTICE.
HB	256	Farmer-Butterfield, Glazier and Lewis (Primary Sponsors) - VETERANS AFFAIRS SURVIVORS BENEFITS/MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY.
HB	257	Hurley and McNeill (Primary Sponsors) - UNCLAIMED PROPERTY PROGRAM IMPROVEMENTS.
HB	258	Lucas, L. Bell, Setzer and Carney (Primary Sponsors) - SCHOOL CALENDAR FLEXIBILITY.
HJR	259	Waddell - HONOR EDWARD L. WILLIAMSON.
HB	260	Ford - SALISBURY/DEANNEX ROWAN COUNTY AIRPORT PROPERTY.
HB	261	Ford - KANNAPOLIS/DEANNEXATION.
HJR	262	McElraft - HONOR JEAN PRESTON.
HB	263	Goodman, Wray, Waddell and C. Graham (Primary Sponsors) - SMALL BUSINESS NEW JOB CREATION INCENTIVE.
HB	264	Pittman, Ford, Moffitt and Hardister (Primary Sponsors) - JUSTICE FOR RURAL CITIZENS ACT.
HB	265	Collins, Murry, Burr and Warren (Primary Sponsors) - AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE REGULATORY MODERNIZATION.
HB	266	Turner and R. Brawley (Primary Sponsors) - STANDARDS FOR SOME NURSERY STOCK PURCHASES.
HB	267	Collins, Torbett, Floyd and Wray (Primary Sponsors) - NCGA PRIOR APPROVAL/INTERSTATE TOLLING.

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NCGA Senate Calendar - March 11, 2013

The Senate calendar has been posted on the N.C. General Assembly’s website.

http://www.ncleg.net/curcal/currentsenatecalendar.pdf

NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

2013 SESSION

SENATE CALENDAR

Monday, March 11, 2013

Senate Convenes - 7:00 p.m.	Legislative Day 24

CALL TO ORDER	Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest, President
PRAYER	The Reverend Peter Milner, Senate Chaplain

JOURNAL APPROVAL

RATIFICATION OF BILLS ORDERED ENROLLED

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES

REPORTS OF SELECT COMMITTEES

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NC NAACP and Its Partners Announce Campaign

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

6 March 2013

For More Information:           Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President, 919-394-8137

                                                Mrs. Amina J. Turner, Executive Director, 919-682-4700

For Media Assistance:            Rob Stephens, Field Secretary, 336-577-9335

On the 48^th Anniversary of Selma's Bloody Sunday the NC NAACP and Its Partners Announce Campaign to Stop Far-Right's Efforts to Suppress Voting Rights Won by the Personal and Moral Courage of the Southern Freedom Movement.

RALEIGH - On Thursday, March 7^th, 2013--the 48th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday-the NC NAACP with leaders of other national and state human rights organizations, fresh from rallying at the US Supreme Court to defend Section Five of the Voting Rights Act, will challenge efforts to restrict the right to vote in North Carolina. Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President of the NC NAACP and Chair of the Political Action and Legislative Committee of the National NAACP Board of Directors will be joined by Atty. Penda Hair, co-director of the Advancement Project as well as leadership from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ), Democracy NC and others at the announcement.

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NCGA House Calendar - March 7, 2013

The House Calendar has been posted to the NCGA website.
http://www.ncleg.net/Calendars/CurrentCalendars/CurrentHouseCalendar.pdf

HOUSE CALENDAR 23rd Legislative Day Thursday, March 7, 2013 House Convenes at 1:00 P.M.

Thom Tillis, Speaker

INTRODUCED BILLS

 

(Reminder: Members may electronically cosponsor these bills until 5:00 p.m. on Friday)

HB	230	Malone, Martin, Brody and Samuelson (Primary Sponsors) - AMEND LAW DEFINING HOME SCHOOLS.
HB	231	Lucas, L. Bell, Farmer-Butterfield and Mobley (Primary Sponsors) - GENERAL ASSEMBLY/MAKE ALL LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANTS PERMANENT FULL-TIME/FUNDS.
HB	232	Dockham - STATE HEALTH PLAN/STATUTORY CHANGES.-AB
HB	233	Dockham - LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE CHANGES.-AB
HB	234	Millis - CORRECT TECHNICAL ERROR PENDER COUNTY ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL LAWS.
HB	235	Lambeth, Whitmire, Brandon and Ramsey (Primary Sponsors) - PARENT'S CONSENT REQUIRED TO QUIT SCHOOL.
HB	236	McElraft - PERMANENT REGISTRATION PLATES FOR AUTHORITIES.
HB	237	Richardson - FRANKLIN COUNTY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC FUNDS.
HB	238	Cleveland and Dockham (Primary Sponsors) - MAINTAINING WATER AND SEWER FISCAL HEALTH.
HB	239	Cleveland and Malone (Primary Sponsors) - NONRESIDENT SCHOLARSHIPS/OUT-OF-STATE TUITION.
HB	240	Dockham - INSURANCE TECHNICAL/CLARIFYING CHANGES.-AB
HB	241	Brisson and Waddell (Primary Sponsors) - BLUE MONDAY SHAD FRY.
HB	242	Tine, Setzer, Wray and Dobson (Primary Sponsors) - VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT SALES TAX REFUND CHANGE.
HB	243	Stevens - LIENS/SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITIES.
HB	244	Hanes and Terry (Primary Sponsors) - INCREASE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION TAX CAP.
HB	245	R. Brawley - TROUTMAN DEANNEXATION.
HB	246	Pittman, Ford, Hardister and Speciale (Primary Sponsors) - THE GUN RIGHTS AMENDMENT.
HB	247	Burr, Starnes, Avila and McElraft (Primary Sponsors) - FREEDOM TO NEGOTIATE HEALTH CARE RATES.
HB	248	Conrad, Fulghum, Cleveland and Blust (Primary Sponsors) - TAXPAYER DEBT INFORMATION ACT.
HB	249	Holloway, Glazier, Blackwell and Elmore (Primary Sponsors) - SUBSTITUTE TEACHER DEDUCTION/PERSONAL LEAVE.
HB	250	Hardister, Brandon, Stam and Lambeth (Primary Sponsors) - CHARTER SCHOOL ENROLLMENT.
HB	251	Michaux and Faircloth (Primary Sponsors) - PRETRIAL RELEASE/REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION.
HB	252	Moffitt, Ramsey and McGrady (Primary Sponsors) - ASHEVILLE TRANSFERS.

CALENDAR

PUBLIC BILLS

SECOND AND THIRD READINGS

HB	120	Committee Substitute - Hager, W. Brawley, Cotham and Arp (Primary Sponsors) - BUILDING CODES: LOCAL CONSISTENCY/EXEMPT CABLE. (Regulatory Reform Subcommittee on Local Government) (2nd Edition)
HB	147	Committee Substitute - Jordan, Stevens and Glazier (Primary Sponsors) - AMEND ADOPTION LAWS. (Judiciary Subcommittee B) (2nd Edition)
HB	149	Committee Substitute - Hastings, J. Bell, Jordan and Schaffer (Primary Sponsors) - CAYLEE'S LAW/REPORT MISSING CHILDREN. (Judiciary Subcommittee B) (2nd Edition)
SB	36	House Committee Substitute - Hartsell - ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT TECHNICAL/CLARIFYING CHANGES. (Judiciary Subcommittee A) (2nd Edition)
SB	72	Hartsell - AMEND UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE ARTICLE 4A/FUNDS TRANSFERS. (Judiciary Subcommittee A) (1st Edition)

COMMITTEE MEETINGS

(Three digit rooms = Legislative Office Building – Four digit rooms = Legislative Building)

Thursday, March 7	Room	Time
APPROPRIATIONS/EDUCATION (JOINT)	421	8:30 am
APPROPRIATIONS/GENERAL GOVERNMENT (JOINT)	1425	8:30 am
APPROPRIATIONS/HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES	643	8:30 am
APPROPRIATIONS/INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY	421	10:00 am
APPROPRIATIONS/JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY (JOINT)	415	8:30 am
APPROPRIATIONS/NATURAL AND ECONOMIC RESOURCES	Room 423	8:30 am
APPROPRIATIONS/TRANSPORTATION (JOINT)	1228/1327	8:30 am
GOVERNMENT -- CORRECTED	643	10:00 am
	H.B.	140	City of Lowell / Regulate Utility Vehicles.
	S.B.	95	Tabor City Election.

PUBLIC HEARING

The House Committee on Elections will hold a Public Hearing on Tuesday, March 12, 2013, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 643 LOB.  The views of interested parties will be heard concerning Voter Identification.

2013 House Deadlines

Drafts	To Bill Drafting By 4:00 PM	Filed in House By 3:00 PM
Bills recommended by   State Agencies	Tuesday, March 12	Wednesday, March 20
Local Bills	Wednesday, March 20	Wednesday, April 3
Public Bills &   Resolutions   (Not Appropriations or   Finance)	Thursday, March 28	Wednesday, April 10
Public Bills   (Appropriations   and Finance)	Thursday, April 4	Wednesday, April 17

Crossover Deadline:  Thursday, May 16

Eligible to file in 2013 but no deadlines:

(1) Redistricting bills for House, Senate, Congress or local entities (H).

(2) Ratification of amendments to the Constitution of the United States (H).

(3) Bills introduced on the report of the House Committees on Appropriations, Finance or Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House. (H)

(4) Adjournment resolution (H & S).

                                                                                                                                                                                                Denise G. Weeks

                                                                                                                                                                                                Principal Clerk

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NCGA Senate Calendar - March 7, 2013

The Senate calendar has been posted on the N.C. General Assembly’s website.

http://www.ncleg.net/curcal/currentsenatecalendar.pdf

NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

2013 SESSION

SENATE CALENDAR

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Senate Convenes - 11:00 a.m.	Legislative Day 23

CALL TO ORDER	Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest, President
PRAYER	The Reverend Peter Milner, Senate Chaplain

JOURNAL APPROVAL

RATIFICATION OF BILLS ORDERED ENROLLED

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES

REPORTS OF SELECT COMMITTEES

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They voted against it..

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