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Alabama brouhaha
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published June 8, 2007
Simmering tensions in the state Senate boiled over Thursday when a Republican lawmaker punched a Democratic colleague in the head. Republican Sen. Charles Bishop said Democratic Sen. Lowell Barron called him a "son of a b----." "I responded to his comment with my right hand, " Bishop said. He said he regretted the punch because "that's not the way grown men solve their problems" but added that he would not immediately apologize. Barron refused to comment. It was the final day of a session in which GOP senators had chafed under rules of the Democratic majority.
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by jack s
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06/08/07 11:49 AM
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One punch does not a brouhaha make. neither does juvenile behavior (name calling followed by punchout) give constituents any faith in the credibility of our governing bodies. Journalists and legislators need to grow up.
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Fifty years ago, they were screwed-up kids sent to the Florida School for Boys to be straightened out. But now they are screwed-up men, scarred by the whippings they endured. Read the story and see a video and portrait gallery.
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