Missouri senator who urged Trump assassination booted from committees
Sorry might not cut it for the Missouri lawmaker who called for President Trump’s assassination.
Missouri Senate leaders announced Tuesday that Democratic state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal has been stripped of her committee assignments, just two days after she tried to calm the controversy with a public apology .
Meanwhile, the state’s Republican lieutenant governor, Mike Parson, on Tuesday called for the Senate to go into special session to expel Chappelle-Nadal from the body.
“I do not make this request of you lightly, but you and I know it is the right course of action to take for the people of Missouri,” Parson wrote in a letter to members of the Missouri Senate.
Republican Senate President Pro Tem Ron Richard and Minority Leader Gina Walsh on Tuesday both rescinded the lawmaker’s nine committee assignments, with Richard saying in a brief statement: "I support the decision of Senate Minority Leader Gina Walsh to remove Sen. Chappelle-Nadal from all of her Senate committees. I am also removing her from all appointments under my authority."
The move reflects the erosion of support Chappelle-Nadal has seen ever since she posted on Facebook last week: "I hope Trump is assassinated!"
Chappelle-Nadal later deleted the statement. She then apologized at a press conference streamed live Sunday on the Facebook page of the Clayton Times, a St. Louis County newspaper.
“President Trump, I apologize to you and your family,” Chappelle-Nadal said at the Wellspring Church in Ferguson, Mo. “I also apologize to all the people in Missouri. And I also apologize to my colleagues in the Missouri legislature for the mistake that I made.”
She added, “I made a mistake. And I’m owning up to it.”
But Missouri's Republican governor and lieutenant governor already had said senators should oust her from office if she doesn't resign.
Expulsion from office would require a two-thirds vote.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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She should have resigned. No condemnation from the left?
Of course not, It's not like she said it about BO./s
Depends, did she ask Russia to do it?
"No condemnation from the left?"
I see about as much condemnation from the left on this as I did condemnation from the right when trump offered t o pay for lawyers for assaulting protesters at his rallies so .................
Shit like this is why this independent thinker no longer belongs to either crooked political party. I want no part of tearing this country apart.
Both parties have way too many insane radicals for me these days as well. I think people have forgotten we are all americans and devided we will fall.
I loved America back when compromise wasn't a dirty word but this new trumperika ... not so much.
Yes, she should have resigned, but in this age of no one having to take responsibility for their words and actions, who is surprised? She is an embarrassment to the good people of Missouri and should be expelled from the senate.
Taking responsibility for ones own actions does not fit the Liberal Mantra.
Trumps a liberal? Think you must have those reversed. When was the last time Trump acknowledged any mistake? He even claimed his confefe was accurate, just a secret word only "Trumpeteers" would understand.
being responsible is not only a conservative trait many liberals and many progressives are just as responsible and some are more responsible than some conservatives.
The way I see it the more radical either left or right most people are the more insane they are and I don't put much credence in insanity or what insane people say.
Cannot disagree on the extremists, but you have to wonder who judges if they have gone too far? On the conservative side right now it is the extremists determining it.
There goes the last voice of reason.......
Voice of reason? What kind of idiot thinks it is acceptable to wish that any other American be assassinated? Especially someone in a leadership position. She is supposed to be one of the adults in the room.
Hahahahaha - I knew that'd get a response. You're so gullible sometimes.
And you just answered my question.
Don't be mad. I knew you'd go all apoplectic on me. It's just fun to poke you sometimes. I just wish I could have seen the incredulous look on your face when you read my post. hahahahaha
Here's my thoughts. I do not condone such extreme views. They only make the individual look unstable but I also can understand why she's become unstable. Donald Trump is not a President for the sane and stable majority of this country. One thing is certain - He will certainly make America great again as his stupidity and antics will only bring people together in the end to defeat him.
What kind of idiot thinks it is acceptable to wish that any other American be assassinated?
GOP Senator David Perdue?
Sen. David Perdue, a freshman senator from Georgia, opened his remarks at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference by encouraging attendees to pray for President Obama. But, he added in a joking tone, they need to pray for him in a very specific way: “ We should pray for him like Psalms 109:8 says : Let his days be few, and let another have his office,” the senator said, smiling wryly.
The crowd chuckled and he moved on with his address.
The rest of that passage, which Perdue did not recite, reads, “May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.”
The psalm is a pointed, lengthy death wish for one of David’s enemies.
GOP activist Carl Paladino?
A New York Republican who served as Donald Trump's campaign co-chair in the state is under fire for saying he hopes President Barack Obama will die of Mad Cow disease and making racist comments about first lady Michelle Obama.
Carl Paladino, an ally of Trump who recently visited Trump Tower, told a weekly paper in Buffalo that Michelle Obama was the person whom he would "most like to see go in 2017."
"I'd like her to return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla," Paladino said.
Of Barack Obama, Paladino said in response to the question of what he would most like to see happen next year, "Obama catches mad cow disease after being caught having relations with a Herford. He dies before his trial and is buried in a cow pasture next to Valerie Jarret, who died weeks prior, after being convicted of sedition and treason, when a Jihady cell mate mistook her for being a nice person and decapitated her."
What kind of idiot thinks it is acceptable to wish that any other American be assassinated?
A notable segment of Trump's voting base?
As bad as they are...not quite the same as calling on people to kill someone. I am surprised you would even use praying for someone to leave office as an example. Te second one is a little closer but still no where near calling on people to assassinate.
Well, that's 2 and they are inexcusable, though I didn't see where anyone was openly advocating assassination.
How many now, on the left have openly advocated for trump's assassination?
2 (or more) wrongs don't make a right.
Kind of hearkens back to Palin and her bulls-eyes. Good thing she was roundly condemned by the right wingers.
Good thing that story was debunked.
Really. It was debunked. Where? When?
I did a quick search and this is what I found:
The suggestion that the symbols were related to guns seemed to come, however, from Palin herself . On March 23, Palin tweeted to her supporters a note about the aforementioned Facebook message, writing, “ Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: ‘Don’t Retreat, Instead - RELOAD! ’ Pls see my Facebook page.” And as Politico’s Jonathan Martin points out , in November Palin boasted about defeating 18 of the 20 members on her “bullseye” list.
Yawn.
Yawn is right! I'm not a subcscriber to The Washington Post, and I'm not about to subscribe just to read their FAKE NEWS, so you still haven't really proved anythng, have you? YAWN!
BTW, it was YOUR Donald Trump who called WaPo FAKE NEWS, so you just can't believe anything they publish, RIGHT? Why do YOU use WaPo as a source when YOUR Donald Trump says it's FAKE? You can't really call it FAKE and then use it as a source, because that shoots YOUR credibility all to hell.
Yawn again. SHOUTING DOES NOT HELP YOUR WEAK ARGUMENT.
No offense, but I'm not going to get into any kind of a back and forth flame war with you. So, please do us all a favor and don't reply or repond to any of my comments in the future, and I will likewise do my best to not reply or respond to yours.
Thanks.
No promises.
The Washington Post is the Mainstream LEFT-WING newspaper of Washington. It is very much like the New York Times and LA Times. Boy, I love it when people get the Washington Post mixed up with the Washington Times...and they almost always turn out to be the very people that the Washington Post caters to! LOL
Your link is bogus to your claim. All the story says is that Palin's bulls-eye Facebook page had nothing to do with the shooting. It does not dispute that she had the page.
See, this is what you get when you don't read past the headlines.
From the article YOU linked :
The map portrayed stylized crosshairs to mark each of their districts, in a “Take Back the 20″ campaign to reclaim seats in the 2010 midterm elections.
And everybody including Palin's people who created the map are wrong. Those symbols are not rifle crosshairs but printer registration marks. I guess Palin wanted to print them out of office?
BULL! So YOU are saying that Palin was telling peole to "RELOAD" printer's ink. That's just STUPID and LAME.
I did a quick search and this is what I found:
The suggestion that the symbols were related to guns seemed to come, however, from Palin herself . On March 23, Palin tweeted to her supporters a note about the aforementioned Facebook message, writing, “ Commonsense Conservatives & lovers of America: ‘Don’t Retreat, Instead - RELOAD! ’ Pls see my Facebook page.” And as Politico’s Jonathan Martin points out , in November Palin boasted about defeating 18 of the 20 members on her “bullseye” list.
Really? I ran a printshop and know registration marks for color process printing. I also use scoped rifles. I know the difference. Palin and you have something in common!
Make America Great Again!!
Bull again. Palin used them as a representation of a gun sight. It doesn't matter what they were, just what she intended and advertised them to be.
That's why I said she didn't know the difference either.
Whatever the motive behind it that is her choice. She should have used dual x or mil dot instead of registration marks if she wanted to make the meaning rifle scope. That flyer was not the reason anyone shot anybody.
Yet very few condemned all the targeting rhetoric used by Liberal Democrats, including Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi...
It's ok if you are a progressive...
Wow. Not unexpected though.
You never have anything positive or nice to say to me so it's hard to accept your criticism as constructive. Anyway, I thought you had me on ignore....please put me back.
I thought you had me on ignore....please put me back.
Is there an IGNORE function here? Please tell me how to use it if there is. (BTW, I did say something nice about you once. I forget what it was, but I know it was nice. You seem like a nice person.)
I'm sorry to say that there is not an actual ignore function. sorry......
Well, that's okay, but I had to check just to be sure, because it seems like that would be a good thing to have. Thanks for letting me know, and have a nice evening!
When you condone calls for assassination, it's hard to be neutral.
Oh for bejeezus. Did you read ALL my comments? There are plenty of "real" things to hate me for. This isn't one of them. I was fucking kidding. We must have been married in a previous life because you apparently only ever listen to half of what I say.
So the comment was trolling?
No, I was trying to lighten up the conversation. You know HUMOR. You really need to get some. If you want to call it trolling then whatever. Go and report me and be done with it. BTW - does my ass look big in these pants?
Yes.
You don't care about high suicide rates, but you do care about assassination and the right for a statue to exist. Consistency isn't something you are too concerned with, is it?
I'm not surprised you conflate these vastly different subjects. Critical thinking can be difficult.
That you don't understand the correlation is unfortunate but not surprising.
Would you care to explain how criminals committing suicide, destruction of public art, and calling for the assassination of the president are related and should be viewed identically? I'm guessing it was just an excuse to spew some political slurs.
The common thread between those three things is you. Selective empathy and mock outrage. Neither is an admirable quality. Apparently you place a statues health and the relevance of an off hand statement over real, actual human lives. Sad.
Wow. You can read minds. Read mine now to see what I think of you.
My empathy is real. My condemnation of calls for assassination are real. My political opinions about public art are real. Why don't you pack up your delusions and lies and bugger off? Trolling is not well regarded here.
When you condone calls for assassination, it's hard to be neutral.
Never at a loss for the hysterical, hyperventilated and histrionic comeback, we see.
And exactly what is your contribution to the civil discourse at NT? If you are trying to let everyone know you hate Trump you reached that goal long ago. Is that all you have to add to the discussion?
MAGA!
GAGA!
Nothing
MAGA!
You condone her remarks as well? Sad.
MAGA
She should agree to resign . . . following the resignations of everyone (including Trump) who thinks we should have monuments to traitors who fought for white supremacy.
What monument to white supremacy does Trump want to stay? I must have missed that one.
According to Trump:
"Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!" Trump tweeted. "Also the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!"
Oh yes I forgot how desperately the DNC its rushing to erase it's past. I also think it is somewhat ridiculous. They are trying to erase their own long history of racism in a way that will make the ignorant think they are actually trying to do something about racism rather than trying to erase their own past. I guess there are some ignorant enough to fall for it. Those that know the parties true and whole history know better. They are still the party of racism and do their best to keep the poor and minorities on their dole instead of giving a leg up in order to keep their vote. The fact that they are now pushing socialism should be everyone's first clue as to their end game.
The past can be remembered without celebrating evil.
Oh yes I forgot how desperately the DNC its rushing to erase it's past.
That mangy dog hasn't hunted for over 50 years--every since every Southern, segregationist democrat fled from the party that gave this country civil rights laws with teeth and ran to the welcoming arms of the republican party. Lincoln is rolling over in his grave in shame.
That mangy dog hasn't hunted for over 50 years
And dem revisionists have been putting lots of gloss over their history. Because the dems want to ignore that they counted on those same votes to maintain control of the house and senate. They used those votes to keep Roosevelt in power. So the dems do own their racist past!
MAGA!!!
You know. What's REALLY sad is that when Lindon Johnson said famously said "I'll have them N****S voting Democrat for 100 years" it looks like he was mostly right about how long Black people would vote for them.
Sorry the RACISM OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS THERE FOR EVERYONE TO SEE AS RECENT AS 1972
The DEMOCRATIC party OPPOSED ALL of the following:
Civil Rights Act 1866
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Freedman Bureau Extension Act of 1866
Enforcement Act of 1870
Force Act of 1871
Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Civil Rights Act of 1960
And during the 60's many Democrats fought hard to defeat the
1964 Civil Rights Act
1965 Voting Rights Acts
1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act
I almost forgot....the Democrats are also responsible for the KKK's very existence.
After exclusively giving the Democrats their votes for the past 25 years, the average African American cannot point to one piece of civil rights legislation sponsored solely by the Democratic Party that was specifically designed to eradicate the unique problems that African Americans face today. Congressional records show that all previous legislation (since 1964) had strong bi-partisan support, even though some Democrats debated and voted against these laws.
After reviewing all of the evidence, many believe America would have never experienced racism to the degree that it has, had not the Democrats promoted it through:
Racist Legislation
Terrorist Organizations
Negative Media Communications
Bias Education
Relentless Intimidation
And Flawed Adjudication.
The racism established and promoted by members of the Democratic Party affected and infected the entire nation from 1856 with the Dred Scott decision, to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case. But they never offered or issued an apology.
Today both parties must remember their past. The Democrats must remember the terrible things they did to Blacks and apologize and the Republicans must remember the terrific things they did for Blacks and re-commit to complete the work that their predecessors started and died for.
Here is something a little more recent for you.
you may or may not have heard Democrat Senator Robert Byrd's outburst of racist bigoted slurs, more specifically the "n-word," on national television in March of 2001. Amazingly, this incident of blatant racism on national television drew barely a peep from the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Julian Bond, Mary Frances Berry, or any of the other ambulance chasers who purport themselves to be the leaders of the civil rights movement. In contrast, the main source of well deserved criticism for Byrd's racist outburst came not from any of the so called leaders of the civil rights movement but from from Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey. The race hustlers Jackson, Mfume et al turned a blind eye towards this act of racism by one of their own party, at most issuing an unpublicized slap on the wrist, or, as was more often the case, making not a peep.
What monument to white supremacy does Trump want to stay?
Himself, for starters.
good one
"Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson
Maybe the vocal minority & the mainstream media want them down - 62% of Americans do not.
"According to a new poll conducted by Marist for NPR/PBS News Hour, 62 percent of Americans want the statues to stay where they are."
who's next, Washington, Jefferson?
right on the money call from Donald Trump - the left is looking to do exactly that:
This is what happens when we accommodate those on the left - the very people who regard the US as an oppressor right from its birth.
Maybe the vocal minority & the mainstream media want them down - 62% of Americans do not.
Since polls count, chapelle-nadal should poll her district. If most of her voters think Trump should be assassinated, then she should put up a banner to that effect and hang it on the confederate statues.
And, each and everyone of them should sign it.
And, each and everyone of them should sign it.
They can all sign it with the same name "Fuck Trump". Open the vote up to the entire country and you'd have a banner big enough to be seen from the moon.
62% of Americans do not.
99% of them could want slavery back. It would still be unconstitutional and wrong but would you be okay with it, too?
She is on her way out!
Make America Great Again!
She is on her way out!
Make America Great Again!
The biggest step Trump can make toward making America great again is the one he takes on his way out the door.
making America great again is the one he takes on his way out the door.
Exactly how I felt when the door slammed behind Obama!
MAGA!
She's on her way out. They are calling for a special session to oust her. Or they may wait for the Veto session in a few weeks. The Lt Gov is working with the leaders from BOTH parties on this.
Since polls count, chapelle-nadal should poll her district. If most of her voters think Trump should be assassinated, then she should put up a banner to that effect and hang it on the confederate statues.
I'm assuming most in her district don't know who Trump is
I'm assuming most in her district don't know who Trump is
They know who and what he is.
I'm assuming most in her district don't know who Trump is
I think that's probably true for at least 50% of Trump voters....or they're refusing to believe who he is.
Her apology came when she realized that no dem was going to back her up. Not even other black lawmakers from MO.
That makes her time in the MO senate very short.
She is gone!
Her apology came when she realized that no dem was going to back her up. Not even other black lawmakers from MO . . .
Backing up her post and voting to expel her are two different things. Even all republicans won't vote to expel.
No one will SAY they agree with her.
If she wanted to express her desire to see Trump wiped from the face of the earth, then she could have just said "I hope Trump dies of natural causes . . . soon."
I just say I hope he's taken out the back door in a straight jacket.
I just say I hope he's taken out the back door in a straight jacket.
Or say "Mr. president, if I were an astronaut, I'd like to go where no one has gone before and leave my footprint on the rings of Uranus (pronounced "your anus").
Even all republicans won't vote to expel.
I live in MO. All MO reps will vote to expel her. She might get two dem votes against expulsion. One of those votes is a former student of mine.
One republican has already said that he will not vote to expel.
That remains to be seen. Unlike the national reps in MO there is a price to be paid for bucking the position of the party.
That remains to be seen. Unlike the national reps in MO there is a price to be paid for bucking the position of the party.
Go ahead. It's pretty easy to spin this into something larger: white republicans vote to oust black representative for an intemperate comment while they ignore those among them who remain seated after supporting monuments to traitors and white supremacy.
white republicans vote to oust black representative for an intemperate comment
She has also been condemned by the black legislators in MO.
She is gone!
Ouch!! That's going to leave a mark.
MO should show trump the door. If he "fixes" the midwest you folks will probably be swimming in pollution in a few years as well. Low factory wages coupled with more pollution equals factories for the midwest.... enjoy.
That was just anti Trump hyperbole Steve. You have good ideas and I like reading those. Hyperbole not so much.
not hyper anything that is trump's plan for the midwest, building factories that compete with china and mexico's wages and lowering pollution regulations so factories are more profitable. Don't you listen to trump's plans ?
If you did you would know that is also his solution to poverty in the ghettos of America as well , to build factories near ghettos and employ the people currently on welfare.
I say Good luck. I dont see much long term success there.
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Wait for his ingenious infrastructure plan. He's already said he want the rich people of america to foot the bill and construct toll roads and bridges for the masses that we then pay tolls to use for the rest of our lives. (our childrens as well) Maintenance ya know.
Yeah trumperuika is gonna be great..... sarc !
not hyper anything that is trump's plan for the midwest
It is hype! You are letting your Trump hate obscure the reality on the ground. You don't want manufacturing jobs to return to America?
I grew up in the midwest the factory jobs were low pay no benefits and horrible working conditions.
trump is proposing even worse so No I'm no big fan of factory work.
Things have changed!
Don't you listen to trump's plans ?
No, they do not--such as these half-baked, blurtings of a mad-man could be called "plans.*" All they really want to hear are the dog-whistles.
*Mexico will pay for the wall; "Tariffs!!!!" etc, etc.
MAGA!!!!!
GAGA!!
Nice to know you are a fan of hers but I like Peggy Lee better. Is that all there is, is that all there is. If that's all there is then............................................................
MAGA!!
I agree. I too live in Missouri, and yes, voter justice is swift here.
Not even other black lawmakers from MO.
She's had no support from anywhere in the liberal press or individuals as far as I know. We can't even get our current president to admit that all nazis are bad or at least worst than people who strongly resist nazism and plenty of his supporters hesitate to do that as well.
We can't even get our current president to admit that all nazis are bad or at least worst than people who strongly resist nazism and plenty of his supporters hesitate to do that as well.
Horse puckey!
MAGA!
Indeed. Liberal propaganda.
GAG!!
GAG!!!
They know who and what he is.
They don't know much except hate and whatever he is - he's a thousand times more a citizen than they'll ever be
They don't know much except hate and whatever he is - he's a thousand times more a citizen than they'll ever be
He's a buffoon. Any of them could run the country as well as he can just by consulting a magic 8 ball, which is probably what he's doing.
Missouri Representative Love called for the lynching of the person who defaced a monument glorifying the traitors who fought for white supremacy. Murdering people by lynching is just as illegal as murdering them by assassination. Will he be ousted from his seat or will he stay comfortably seated as the hypocrites call for Chapelle-nadal to be ousted from hers?
And he immediately apologized unlike the doofus soon to be former state senator.
Do you support defacing cemeteries? That's what the vandal did.
And he immediately apologized unlike the doofus soon to be former state senator.
She apologized too.p so they're even.
Do you support defacing cemeteries? That's what the vandal did.
I think of all of these glorifications to treason and white supremacy belong in cemeteries. Pile them on top of each other and they can deface themselves.
I think that is where they belong as well. There or on the battlefield where they have historical context.
What I do not agree with is defacing them if they are in a cemetery. Don't you agree?
What I do not agree with is defacing them if they are in a cemetery. Don't you agree?
Leaving them standing in public places as a glorification of traitors who fought for white supremacy, will incite people to deface these symbols wherever they can find them even in cemeteries. That, in turn, will force authorities to remove these statues from public places. I think vandalizing a cemetery is terrible but keeping these things in public places is worse. It shouldn't take this kind of extremism to undo what should have never been done in the first place but, if that's what it takes, then I'll grit and bear it.
There are 34 MO senate seats. Two are vacant. 32x.67=22. She has only two confirmed yes votes. She will be gone!