So a Texas Representative who has been sued for sexual harassment and gender discrimination thinks he’s cool by saying he’d handle a female senator “Aaron Burr Style” if she were a guy. Sir you’re a special kind of stupid – PB/TK
A Texas Republican suggests he’d duel Susan Collins over health care if she were a man – By Carly Sitrin / July 24 2017
Last week, the Republican-proposed Obamacare repeal-and-delay bill was doomed when three GOP women senators, all of whom had initially been left out of the health care bill discussions, came forward saying they would not vote to pass it. Now one GOP representative is blaming the ongoing health care confusion on these women senators — and saying that “if it was a guy from south Texas, I might ask him to step outside and settle this Aaron Burr style.”
According to an Associated Press report, in a radio interview Monday, Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) blamed “some female senators from the Northeast” for holding up the health care vote process and said that “if it was a guy from south Texas, I might ask him to step outside and settle this Aaron Burr-style.” Farenthold is referring to the historic duel in which Vice President Burr mortally wounded Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in 1804.
Continue to vox.com article: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/24/16021532/blake-farenthold-texas-duel-susan-collins-over-health-care
