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DEL.ICIO.USSmackdown in the Alabama Senate — and a blurred photo
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A fist fight broke out in the Alabama Senate on Thursday. You can see the Associated Press version on ajc.com by clicking here.
But let us also encourage you to visit the Birmingham News site. The home page has an astounding photo of the punched-out Democratic senator’s head whipping to the side as it meets a Republican fist.
In the attached story, bystander Alabama Sen. Parker Griffith (D-Huntsville), said that, had Sen. Lowell Barron (D-Fyffe) not partially ducked the punch, he might have been seriously injured.
“This was a violent, violent punch,” said Griffith, a retired physician. “Had he not ducked, it was a hospitalization punch. It was a neurosurgery punch; it was a deforming punch. It was that hard. It was a brutal attack.”
And you thought hardball was the game played in the Georgia Legislature.
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By Sam
June 8, 2007 8:48 AM | Link to this
Jawja missed its chance on April 20th…the big doors of the house chamber and the senate chamber should have been thrown open…. and Casey and Glenn should have had a good ol’ fashioned throw-down right there on the marble floor…Oh well, January’s coming up soon!
By oh come on
June 8, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this
What do you expect from Alabama?—Civilized behavior? Yesaterday on TV I saw US Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama keeping up the Alabama tradition of bigotry and hate whether it be against blacks, Catholics, etc. as in the past—but now his rant was as outrageous as any on the threat of Hispanics in regard to the Bush-Kennedy-McCain-Chambliss-Isaakson Immigration Bill.
By me again
June 8, 2007 10:12 AM | Link to this
Ha!!! Look at them acting like animals. And folks had the nerve to talk about Cynthia McKinney!
By deegee
June 8, 2007 10:14 AM | Link to this
Interesting how things come to blows when the issue is money. Not sure what the ramifications of the bill are but you can bet it’s costing Republicans.
“Republican senators were using delaying tactics to force Democratic leaders to bring up an election reform bill to ban transfers between political action committees.”
By Belin
June 8, 2007 4:42 PM | Link to this
now let’s call THESE so-called men THUGS!
By GodHatesTrash
June 8, 2007 11:11 PM | Link to this
God hates trash. And God definitely hates Alabama GOPers.