{"id":47712,"date":"2021-04-23T22:55:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T22:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47712"},"modified":"2021-04-23T22:55:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T22:55:57","slug":"sen-kennedy-gets-an-earful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47712","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Kennedy gets an earful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, might have thought he could get away with hurling a rhetorical fastball at a noted voting rights activist.<\/p>\n<p>He asked Stacey Abrams of Georgia to explain to him what in that state&#8217;s new voting restriction law is &#8220;racist.&#8221; Abrams, a Democratic activist who happens to be African-American, fired back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bbhcgDEdtwE\">DAMN! GOP Sen. John Kennedy Tries To Grill Stacey Abrams On Georgia voting law And Gets Served &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abrams launched into a point-by-point recital of all the provisions in the Georgia law she deems to be discriminatory.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy sought a couple of times to shut her down. Abrams persisted. She continued. Abrams ended up giving Kennedy far more than he thought he would get when he posed the question.<\/p>\n<p>I attached a link to this brief blog post that explains what I am talking about. It&#8217;s worth taking a look.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, might have thought he could get away with hurling a rhetorical fastball at a noted voting rights activist. He asked Stacey Abrams of Georgia to explain to him what in that state&#8217;s new voting restriction law is &#8220;racist.&#8221; Abrams, a Democratic activist who happens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47712\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sen. Kennedy gets an earful<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[8116,9687],"class_list":["post-47712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-stacey-abrams","tag-voting-restrictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47713,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47712\/revisions\/47713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}