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| Charges were filed against Morgan for impersonating a police officer. |
In both 2015, and in 2016, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”
posted profiles of Elaine Morgan,
a Rhode Island State Senator and dry cleaner.
Her district
includes the northern half of Charlestown, Hopkinton, Richmond and Exeter.
She only seemed as kooky as the average conservative at first when she voted against the state of Rhode Island’s attempt to raise the minimum wage, in the midst of its worst period of income inequality in the United States in almost a century, despite in her own words that she thinks the people know “MONEY WORKS BEST IN OUR POCKETS”.
But what really
got our attention about her was her response to a letter from a constituent who
was angry about the idea that the United States would potentially allow Syrian
refugees to seek refuge and potentially emigrate to the United States, sending
them a horribly Islamophobic response while accidentally CC’ing EVERY MEMBER OF
THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
Her inflammatory
and disgusting take read,
“I do not want our governor bringing in any Syrian refugees. I think our country is under attack. I think this is a major plan by these countries to spread out their people to attack all non Muslim persons. The Muslim religion and philosophy is to murder, rape, and decapitate anyone who is a non Muslim. If we need to take these people in we should set up a refugee camp to keep them segregated from our populous. I think the protection of our US citizens and the United States of America should be the most important issue here.”
When asked about
her e-mail the next day, she didn’t apologize, and continued to suggest
internment camps as an option, saying,
“We have veterans in the streets starving, alcoholics, drug addicts. I can see taking Syrian refugees in, but keeping them all centralized – it sounds a little barbaric, but we need to centralize them and keep them in one central area.”
We have a new
update on Elaine Morgan… she co-sponsored an unsuccessful
attempt in February of 2017 to pass a law to drug test welfare recipients.
You know, one of
those kinds that lose a state a ton of money on the cost of drug testing, that
then find that hard to buy drugs when you have no savings and are living on government
assistance. Thus the state makes no money in its expensive hunt for drug-using
poor people.
The law really
only exists to shame poor people for asking for help in the first place.
At least, that’s
the initial money lost. States then get the opportunity to lose millions of
dollars in lawsuits where the laws, if passed, get overturned as violations of
the 4th Amendment that protects citizens from illegal search and seizures
without cause.
Point being,
Morgan’s an idiot for even suggesting such a thing, and thankfully the
Democratic majority voted down her attempt.
And, in an extremely
depressing turn of events… the Rhode Island GOP did not find anyone to primary challenge
Elaine Morgan for her seat on the Rhode Island State Senate in 2016, and she
got her party’s nomination unopposed, before going on to defeat Democrat Catherine Rumsey with 54%
of the vote.
It will be
interesting to see if she can survive a predicted Blue Wave election coming in
2018, given how narrow her victory was only a year ago.
One Year Ago,
November 24th, 2016: Elaine Morgan
(RI)… 2016 Update
Two Years Ago, November 24th, 2015: Elaine Morgan (RI)… Original Profile
Two Years Ago, November 24th, 2015: Elaine Morgan (RI)… Original Profile