Comments on: House Rep. Jane Cunningham, Missouri’s Sally Kern wannabe

by: clew

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:57:27 +0100

You may have madskillz or just be in the evilbig city where this is far less assumed to be S&M perversion.

This is odd. After all, both devotees of and refugees from small-town life describe it as somewhere that everybody pretty much knows everybody’s business. Why should decent people, who knew that tattoo-face guy
was basically OK, ostracize him for his looks? Pretty much everyone is annoying in some way, and in a small place if you avoid the annoying you are all alone.

…I realize that there are lots of theories and even more novels based on this occurrence in small towns. I’d appreciate recommendations of good novels.

by: Lorelei

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:26:31 +0100

who the fuck cares about what you ’should’ be wearing when meeting a person ‘in authority’ — every single one of those standards is racist, sexist, and classist, in every single instance, no question about it, so why are we even concerning ourselves with dress codes and how to be ‘proper’?

this woman is an asshole. end of story.

by: Phoenician in a time of Romans

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:16:20 +0100

Oh, so when Jane Cunningham said

I believe you mean “When PROMO’s press release reported that Jane Cunningham said…”.

Be fair to Jack, even if he’s on the “other side” and acknowledge that the two are not necessarily the same thing.

by: MikeEss

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:18:04 +0100

“Jack” = Sock Puppet for Cunningham…

by: Jesurgislac

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:04:27 +0100

Jack: 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.

Oh, so when Jane Cunningham said that the reason she kicked them out of her office was that she was disgusted by their piercings, she was lying - the real reason was she’d double-booked herself, but she preferred to blame the kids who’d come to see her rather than her office’s inefficiency?

by: Jack

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:15:13 +0100

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.
for the truth, check into her back ground.
www.jane-cunningham.com

by: Phoenician in a time of Romans

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:06:24 +0100

Vote, ha…without a draft to threaten their precious hides, they vote less than lemurs. What, me vote?

by: Mold

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:52:56 +0100

Vote, ha…without a draft to threaten their precious hides, they vote less than lemurs.

by: NancyP

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:24:20 +0100

Folks, Jane Cunningham is not from a small town. She is from a wealthy suburb of St. Louis. Plenty of well off college kids wear piercings. They even vote. There’s no excuse for rudeness there. But one thing she knows for sure - these kids aren’t going to donate money to her.

by: Phoenician in a time of Romans

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:21:33 +0100

No, I think you have that backwards. Serving the interests of constituents is the entire basis of the democratic system. We vote for you, you look out for our collective interests in your given branch of government.

You don’t live in a democracy, either de jure or de facto.

The people the legislature are beholden to are those who put them there. In practice that means (i) campaign contributers, (ii) activists and organisers, and (iii) voters. In that order. As the esteemed sagette said “You gotta dance with them that brung you”, and I’m betting that Cunningham felt she didn’t owe a LGBT alliance of students so much as an obligatory air-kiss.