Via the field negro. There's video of the comment on the other side of the lin, but this little heifer walks in on the lower left corner of your screen, talking with no obvious way to shut her up. You have to hover your mouse pointer over her for the "shut the hell up" controls to appear.
Fumo: Slavery would be "almost unanimous"
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | 10:23 PM
by Sarah Bloomquist & APHARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - April 30, 2008 (WPVI) -- A state senator told a black pastor testifying at a committee hearing that, given the chance to cast secret ballots, his fellow legislators would vote to legalize slavery.
Sen. Vincent J. Fumo, D-Philadelphia, made the comments Tuesday during a hearing on a Republican-sponsored bill to amend the state Constitution to outlaw same-sex marriages and civil unions, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on its Web site Wednesday.
"What you are advocating here is that we take away the rights of a minority. And I don't think that's right," Fumo, a staunch defender of gay rights, told the witness, Gilbert Coleman Jr., senior pastor of Freedom Christian Bible Fellowship in Philadelphia.
He added, "If we introduced a bill on slavery, it might pass. That doesn't make it right."
Coleman, who was testifying in favor of the measure, responded: "I doubt that sir."
"Oh, don't bet on it in this General Assembly," Fumo countered. "I know some people up here, especially on a secret ballot, it would be almost unanimous."
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I would never say that Fumo
I would never say that Fumo does not know the character of the people he serves with in Harrisburg. I'm not sure that that he is off-base here. They may not vote for slavery but they have done some damnable things in the middle of the night when they thought nobody was watching them.