Rep. Jenny Horne’s magnificent, passionate, tearful, raging, truth-telling soliloquoy

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If you haven’t seen Rep. Jenny Horne‘s speech lecturing her neoConfederate colleagues for their day-long effort to obstruct South Carolina from doing the right thing, you need to stop whatever you are doing and watch it.

NOW.

I have nothing else to say, because this Charleston Republican says it ALL.

33 thoughts on “Rep. Jenny Horne’s magnificent, passionate, tearful, raging, truth-telling soliloquoy

    1. Brad Warthen Post author

      God bless her. I wish I could vote for her.

      Rep. Joe Neal told me afterward he never thought he’d live to hear a House Republican tell such truths as that, much less with such power and clarity.

  1. Brad Warthen Post author

    I loved it when she said, in expressing how sick she was of hearing about heritage, “I am a direct descendant of Jefferson Davis — OKAY?”

    Like top that, you pathetic pack of ancestor-worshippers…

    1. Rose

      Yes, that was great. I also thought Rep. Neal’s comments on his ancestry were powerful.

  2. Dave Crockett

    I’m still watching, too. I’m exhausted but I will continue to watch to do very end…

  3. Brad Warthen Post author

    Well, they’re trying to wrap up, and they’re making various maneuvers with Ott’s resolution, and I have to confess that at this point in the evening, I am confused. I am many things, but not an expert on parliamentary procedure…

    1. Doug Ross

      If you want a bunch of rules to run your life and your government, this is perfection for you.

  4. Dave Crockett

    Well, that’s probably most lopsided vote of the day on adjournment. I’ll hang in as long as they well!

  5. Brad Warthen Post author

    James Smith is reminding them what a dishonor it is to soldiers who fought and died for that flag to be flying.

    He wishes Robert E. Lee could be hear tonight to set these obstructionists straight. So do I. So do I…

  6. Brad Warthen Post author

    “A symbolic middle finger” to the federal government that passed the Voting Rights Act: James Smith’s characterization of the meaning of our keeping that flag up after 1965…

  7. Dave Crockett

    Just emailed Sandifer to express my dissatisfaction with his position. Glad he didn’t prevail.

  8. Doug T

    Stayed up til 1:30 watching. My wife is irritated but it was history in the making. Not pretty that’s for sure but it ended up as it should have.

    1. Brad Warthen

      I envy y’all. I missed it. I had been at the State House earlier in the evening, but headed home during the recess after Rep. Horne’s speech.

      Things were going great watching the feed on the Web until a little after midnight, when I lost it. Too exhausted to drive back downtown, I went to bed not knowing…

      1. Scout

        We watched it on the web until about then too. The guide didn’t say it but turns out it was on one of the ETV channels too. My husband started flipping around to see just in case and he found it. We switched to that when the feed got slow – in the middle of Smith talking. He kept freezing.

      2. Dave Crockett

        That’s why I still have an outside TV antenna. Uverse up here in Seneca only carries the primary channels of the local stations. With my outside antenna, I can get all of the sub channels, including all of the ETV sub channels (one of which was entirely devoted to debate coverage). Too bad, though, that someone in master control at ETV Central didn’t notice that the county in which Clemson University resides is spelled ‘Pickens’ and not ‘Pickins’… 😉

  9. Norm Ivey

    WaPo has a nice follow-up interview with her this morning.

    I am thankful for her presence in the House, and I am thankful that I’ve never had to spend time with Mike Pitts.

    1. Scout

      That’s a good article. I think Smith, Ott, Neal, and Stavrinakis should get some credit too. And Cobb-Hunter just for sheer tenacity with her questions for Mr. Speaker.

  10. Mark Stewart

    What was with Rep Mike Pitts not even voting after that day of his?

    I would like to see a series of maps by state rep district of the major house votes last night. Not just the final vote.

  11. Karen Pearson

    Rep. Horne is a Representative, a South Carolinian, and a southern lady we can all be proud of!

  12. Michael Rodgers

    Rep. Horne’s speech was awesome. And she did a fantastic job questioning Rep. Merrill too, regarding Rick Quinn’s amendment that stalled everything for quite some time before Rep. Quinn eventually asked people to vote against it so that the bill would stay clean, so we could get the flag down today instead of later or never.

    1. SBS

      She wasn’t awesome.

      If she could mourn the dead – “crying in five accents” – that would be awesome.

    2. Mark Stewart

      For a communications consultant, he’s got quite a way with words. But then he did name his firm Geechie Communications; so this skill of his goes way back.

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