House Rep. Jane Cunningham, Missouri's Sally Kern wannabe

ignorance never ceases to amaze me

I only wish the second group of volunteers had the integrity to dismiss her as useless and just walk out

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by: ol cranky @ Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 07:48:23 AM CDT

poor MO children

It's frightening that she's in a position of power. Does she think she was elected to serve only those she enjoys looking at?

If that's how she was behaving on an LGBT Equality day, I'm guessing that she's against this anti-bullying legislation.

Electricity's for light bulbs!

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by: n8nyc @ Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 08:39:21 AM CDT

Yes, Jane's a 100% For-Bullying proponent

and is generally against liberal or libertarian principles.

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by: NancyP @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 09:09:00 AM CDT

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Poor Jane better not ever come to Austin

If a few facial piercings make her want to vomit. Jeeze, how do you get to be that age and have so little personal experience of the world that a facial piercing or two provokes such a response? Get. A. Grip.

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by: Ailei @ Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 09:10:06 AM CDT

It makes me wonder...

About how she feels about people who are a different color...a different race...disabled...etc.

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by: the.sue @ Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 09:34:42 AM CDT

What she's decribing is a serious mental disorder

A deliberately cultivated phobic response to strangeness. It takes years to produce this effect:

"I don't see how any human being could look at them for any prolonged period of time without getting physically ill... I thought I would throw-up if I looked at them any longer."

It's like people who vomit when they see men kissing or if they think they've eaten an 'unclean' meat like pork.

Like most pathological disorders; this problem does not strengthen her; it saps and weakens her in every way. She is a sick, sick woman.

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by: steerpike66 @ Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 10:23:47 AM CDT

....signed and sent

All 3 PROMO petitions.  More organizations should make it so easy.  Keep up the pressure. Lets get all bigots out of office.

 

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.

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by: Orion45 @ Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 10:56:56 AM CDT

What A Bully

As the proud wearer of a septum (nose ring) piercing, of course I signed the PROMO petition.  What darn bully she is!  Makes me mad!

The fight for full LGBT Equality is NOT over.  Be strong and be ready to really fight!  And read my blog in your spare time! http://ravenhurst-ravenhurst.b...

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by: Dagon @ Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 11:21:39 AM CDT

a person could say the same thing about jane's appearance

her unnaturally stiff and glossed hair, that unflattering and outdated blouse, and not to mention the holes poked in her own ears.  ugh....i can't look at her any more.  i think i'm gonna yak....

but before i do, let me say that she has no business being on that committee.  her remarks should be considered grounds for her removal.  i can't believe she is qualified, given the goal of their efforts.  is she trying to undermine it?  

The gays stole my lunch money

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by: matt in mpls @ Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 11:37:20 AM CDT

here we go again

another moron to call and email, i swear my sent part of my inbox consists of only emails to politicians.

http://www.queersunited.blogspot.com

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by: hippie4lyfe @ Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 14:47:25 PM CDT

....just going to coment on her own self-mutilations and masochism

Look at that dyed, permed, hot iron curled hair. Ears may be pierced but clip-ons hurt like heck. Eyebrows are plucked, waxed or tattooed. Collars all so tight they are like nooses. And I'll bet she shaves underarms and legs, or waxes. Probably not bikini line though. Who is she to talk???

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.

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by: Orion45 @ Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 14:51:00 PM CDT

....oops addendum

That is not a blouse buttoned tight, it is a scarf tied round her neck.... so she is into breath play too... that is too kinky for most of us I think.

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.

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by: Orion45 @ Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 14:57:22 PM CDT

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This sounds like an ACLU lawsuit

just waiting to happen.  

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by: bookwrm1 @ Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 16:28:44 PM CDT

rude as hell

she should at least be reprimanded for treating potential constituents that way. There is no excuse for such rudeness

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by: Alvin McEwen @ Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 18:14:34 PM CDT

Jane

The good news is that the leading homophobe in the Missouri House (i.e., Jane) has reached the end of her term limit.  The bad news is that she is running for Senate.  You can learn more about here on her on her campaign site: http://jane-cunningham.com/ind...

Her husband is a political partronage job, appointed by Bush.  With any luck, they will be both be looking for new things to do next year.

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by: tony @ Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 20:18:22 PM CDT

Clones

Boy, those Sally Kern clones sure do get around don't they?!

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by: Jon Michaels @ Sun Mar 30, 2008 at 20:39:21 PM CDT

Resort to satire...

That's all I can do:

http://blog.fritzliess.com/200...

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 00:46:57 AM CDT

Re: Secret Agenda

Good one Fritz!  LMAO!!

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by: Jon Michaels @ Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 03:00:12 AM CDT

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What the ????

I suppose then that she's swept her school system clean of any burn victims lest their appearance offend her.

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by: johnnyleen @ Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 08:27:24 AM CDT

But at the same time...

...am I the only one who thinks that, just maybe, if you're going to address a Member of Congress and stand in for an oppressed group, you might just MAYBE want to think a little bit about "first impressions" and how you're going to come across? It's not that different from wearing a tie or a suit to a job interview; no matter how "oppressive" you might find the clothes, you want to make a good impression and you want the CONTENT of your interview to matter, as opposed to distracting them with your dress.

Maybe I don't know much about facial piercings, but assuming they can be removed temporarily, I do believe that someone wishing to drive home a point to a U.S. Congresswoman who is already likely to have a closed mind should at least try to "win her over" and make her more likely to listen to them by dressing, if not "conservatively", at least "in a way unlikely to detract from your message" if possible. While I admire these students and of course saying "I wanted to vomit" is a HORRIBLY rude way to speak of ones own constituents, an office in the United States Congess is not the mosh pit at Lollapalooza. I completely support these students' right to dress as they want to in their everyday lives, but when they are purporting to speak for GLBT students everywhere, it bothers me that they were unwilling to dress in a dlightly more professional matter.

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by: kmpintj @ Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 13:52:19 PM CDT

Maybe for Congress

But this is silly little representative in the Missouri House.  Jefferson City is not a professional place.  There are dogs walking the corridors of the capitol, for instance.

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by: tony2 @ Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 12:41:30 PM CDT

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Dogs?

Really? Strays?  People's dogs accustomed to being let out into the halls?  is this real?

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 06:22:32 AM CDT

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I agree, mostly

As one would for an interview, I'd imagine one would do better seeking a Representative or Senator dressed conservatively.  However, if the contact was unexpected, then I don't see how they could have erased all vestige of their piercings presto chango.  

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 13:36:36 PM CDT

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This was likely the first lobbying effort for these teens

It's a learning process. When you have a broad citizens' lobby day, you get newbies who don't go to the orientation the week before, and who show up for the bus in clothes they would wear to school. We are talking about high school and college kids here, not mature adults. If you want to grow a movement, you need to let young people and other newbies in, and accept that some will not be completely trained by lobby day.

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by: NancyP @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 14:55:17 PM CDT

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Jane Speaks

Sure she found their appearance "painful" but Jane was only rude because they were from Kansas City...  

http://www.stltoday.com/blogzo...

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by: tony2 @ Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 12:42:25 PM CDT

I WAS THERE, THIS ARTICLE IS A LIE

I am a Lobbyist in Jefferson City and I remember talking to the group of "volunteer Lobbyists"  who's recollection of this event was very different. In fact the response to why the boys were turned away was not because of looks at all but because of the lack of respect shown towards the Representative and that the representative had an important meeting with Representative Low. So my memory is something that I know for fact, this article is noting but false rumors and lies. I hope you will look for the truth and not settle on a set of lies.  

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by: donalduck @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 02:09:39 AM CDT

Lobbyist for whom? Rep.'s staffer, more likely!

Can't you people spell, or capitalize appropriately or at least consistently?  

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by: NancyP @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 09:05:38 AM CDT

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Truth

Did anyone confirm the incident?  If what this person says is truth, then Rep. Cunningham deserves an apology from the community. While not an ally or even close, it hurts us more than someone like her if we fall into this sort of game.

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by: jenny0117 @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 05:05:31 AM CDT

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Bigoted?

Pam, what about this woman's over-the-top response is bigotry?  Are you saying that people with facial piercings are a class of people as clearly defined as African-Americans, Hispanics, Jews, Gays and Lesbian?  That's a real stretch.  She was rude, intemperate, vulgar and unprofessional--but she wasn't being bigoted. The woman's response was beneath contempt because she should uphold the dignity of her office and treat all her constituents with respect.  But given her age, I'm not surprised she finds facial piercings repellent.  Many people do, even younger ones.    

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Wed Apr 02, 2008 at 06:37:21 AM CDT

Democrats in action

Was the Queen reference suppose to be a single they were queer youth?

As though we needed another
Submitted by Howard Beale on Mon, 03/31/2008 - 9:33pm.

   * Legislative Hijinks
   * Legislative Races

Here's one more reason to hope that Jane Cunningham loses her bid for the state senate.

Some young people take the time to go to Jefferson City and carry out their civic duty by lobbying their legislators and Queen Jane kicks them out because she doesn't like how they look.  Painfully stupid.  

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by: jenny0117 @ Thu Apr 03, 2008 at 04:25:34 AM CDT