Another Republican attacks John Lewis: What’s he done since?

Posted January 18, 2017 11:00 by Comments (6)

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Having your head beaten in once is enough for most people.

Iowa Rep. Steve King said Tuesday that Georgia Rep. John Lewis trades on his status as a civil rights icon and hasn’t contributed anything since then.

King made the comments on “Mickelson in the Morning” on WHO Iowa radio amid a discussion of Lewis’ remark last week that Donald Trump was not a “legitimate” President. Trump responded by tweeting that Lewis, who was “All talk, talk, talk – no action or results.”

“I’ve served with John Lewis now for quite some time,” King, a Republican, said of Lewis, a Democrat. “And we don’t really always, I don’t know that we’ve ever found ourselves where we’ve been working together on legislation in that way. But I have long contemplated the idea of just going to the floor and saying, ‘John Lewis, thank you for your contribution to civil rights during the civil rights era. I would appreciate it if you would contribute something since then. It’s been a half a century.’ And a number of us have watched that and said, ‘He trades off of it.’ And I guess that’s fine. But he should be doing some other things too. And I haven’t seen it happen from him.”

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6 responses to Another Republican attacks John Lewis: What’s he done since?

  1. anothertoothpick January 18th, 2017 at 11:13

    While institutional racism is the province of the powerful — and, in the United States, the powerful are still mostly white

  2. Buford2k11 January 18th, 2017 at 11:17

    Where does the line form to kick this guy in the groin?…

  3. Larry Schmitt January 18th, 2017 at 11:19

    What’s he done since? How about represent his district in Congress with distinction? Which is more than we can say about you, King.

  4. amersham1046 January 18th, 2017 at 17:13

    What has Steve King done ever

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