This clip has been causing “a stir” out in California, according to our tipster, which makes sense, because wtf? Here’s this nice black preacher giving an opening statement to a California State Senate committee about how he, like everyone, wants to take measures reducing emissions, but he also doesn’t want those measures to fuck over his poor community. When he politely finishes, Sen. Pat Wiggins (a “Pat” of the lady variety) very crisply curses at him. He stares at her incredulously, because who does that?
8.15.2008
Excuse Me?
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How do we know who it is who makes the "bullshit" comment? It's not the lady in the red jacket pictured at the end of the clip, who says "Let me step in here." Is that not Sen. Wiggins? So who calls bullshit?
ReplyDeleteThe lady in the red jacket is the committee chairwoman State Senator Christine Kehoe. The incident was described in detail in the Humboldt County Journal:
ReplyDelete"...Sen. Christine Kehoe picked up the pieces and carried on, almost without batting an eye. You get the definite sense that she wasn't very surprised. And such, indeed, has been the unanimous follow-up reaction from people who run across Wiggins occasionally (and who, of course, demanded that their names appear nowhere in the paper). "Oh, that's just Pat!" they say. "She's just like that!" "