I believe the house will meet this morning to vote on the suspension resolution. It should pass fairly comfortably.
I don't expect the senate to vote until Sunday or Monday to suspend the rules. They are right on the cut line. We'll see.
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I believe the house will meet this morning to vote on the suspension resolution. It should pass fairly comfortably.
I don't expect the senate to vote until Sunday or Monday to suspend the rules. They are right on the cut line. We'll see.
It didn't happen. Spineless bastards.
Just FYI the guy stopping this from happening is Chris McDaniel and he is a racist piece of shit. He has stated on his website his support for The League of the South which is the Klan without the robes and goofy titles. I have had to drive past their "headquarters" a few times for work and it's a dumpy trailer park in Bum**** Alabama. Which is a fitting place for that trash to live.
Here's what I think is going on.
I think there is a group of experienced Senators that are fighting tooth and nail not to prevent us from getting a new flag but rather to slow the process down and make it agonizing in an effort to set precedent that future SJW reforms don't get ramrodded through the legislature.
I hope that's what is happening. They come off looking bad, but really they could be protecting the future of Mississippi from angry Twitter mobs.
I'm not sure I've ever really truly been embarrassed to be from MS but this is pushing it.
Chris McDaniel is the personification of everything wrong in Mississippi.
McDaniel can't stop it alone. He's a lost cause.
Need to be bending the ear of the ones who can be reached. Tyler McCaughan is one. Sally Doty. They are two of the 7-8 who are on the fence.
It's an awful reality to have to accept that some people are so self absorbed that they see any slight disrespect to them as more important than massive disrespect to others. And we elect these people.
A favorite exercise of mine is to ask what would it take for you to shave all the body hair off of you if it meant helping someone else? Would just giving a warm meal to someone in need be it? Would it have to save someone's life? What it have to save someone you know personally and care about's life? It's best done in person where the body language cannot lie. The honest answers that tells you makes you sad.
I've actually been gone for a little while now, but I've always been proud to claim it. There are a lot of redeeming qualities to MS. I've actually found a lot of racial issues to be much worse in places that don't have that same reputation nationally. Not to minimize the issues we certainly have.
News Mississippi has tweeted that the rules are suspended so they can now vote. I think that means they now have the votes in the Senate. God I hope they get this done.
It appears to be happening according to the twitters
85-34 it passed.
Senate rules committee is meeting in 15 minutes.
Senate Committee passed it.
Now for the senate floor.
Chris McDaniel with the argument that it's a slippery slope to force a senator to do their job as his reasoning for voting against the resolution. Totally not a racist guys.
36-14. The ayes have it.
Historic day.
Excellent speech by McDaniel.
Enjoy changing the cities, counties, and every statue too coming soon!!
Historic day for MS, indeed, and long past due. Glad this is finally happening.
Is there anything left to do? Is this officially official? Does Tate have to sign something? Is there absolutely no chance the current flag will stay?
To clear up any confusion, today's voting was to only change the rule to allow a late bill to be introduced after the deadline. Tomorrow, the bill itself be drafted and then voted on by both the House and Senate, although it will only need majority and not 2/3 like today. Technically it could still fail, but I don't see that happening. And Tate has already said he would sign it if it reached his desk. Today was the hard part, and it was a good day.
The only hang up going forward will be the challenge in the courts come tuesday morning (or whenever tate / leg get done doing what they doing)
Believe me this will be challenged up to the SCOTUS if need be.
I do wonder what the legal ruling will be since the leg had punted it to the people in 2001. Someone more well versed in law / politics than me could probably explain it better, but I'm not sure how it will hold up in court that the leg are voting something that they had previously left up to the people. It could be challenged and they can't just eliminate it since the people voted to keep it.
So if Tate changes his mind (or has it changed for him) and vetoes it there would still be a need for the 2/3 votes to override the veto right?
I just hate having to rely on the word of a politician. I'm ready for it to be completely over.