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Leroy N. Soetoro
Dec 6, 2017, 3:51:27 PM12/6/17
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While debating a land-use bill at a committee meeting on Tuesday night,
Pennsylvania state Rep. Matt Bradford laid his hand — for just a moment —
on the left forearm of the colleague sitting next to him.
That colleague was conservative Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, who interrupted
Bradford mid-sentence with a personal bit of information.
“Look, I'm a heterosexual. I have a wife, I love my wife, I don't like men
— as you might. But stop touching me all the time,” Metcalfe told
Bradford, who then began laughing.
[Pennsylvania state lawmaker says he's a heterosexual and doesn't like men
touching his arm]
Several other members of the committee, which Metcalfe chairs, giggled and
smirked.
“Keep your hands to yourself,” said Metcalfe, a Republican from Butler
County. “If you want to touch somebody, you have people on your side of
the aisle who might like it.
“I don't.”
Bradford, a Democrat, appeared to be stunned by the comments.
“Okay, chairman, chairman,” he said, widely grinning as committee members
laughed.
One member appeared to conceal her face from the camera with her hand.
“We're officially off the rails. ... My intent was just to beg for your
permission for about 30 seconds.”
“Then beg, don't touch,” responded Metcalfe, who is serving his 10th term
in office. Bradford continued to laugh.
“I don't know where we go from here, really,” Bradford said.
Bradford is married to a woman and has four children, according to his
online biography.
Neither Bradford nor Metcalfe could be immediately reached for comment.
Pennsylvania's first openly gay legislator, Rep. Brian Sims, sits on the
state government committee and turned to Facebook to express his outrage
toward Metcalfe, whom he called the Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus's
“head bigot.”
“PA State Representative Daryl Metcalfe disrupted a State Government
Committee meeting this morning — about a land use bill! — to loudly
declare his heterosexuality!” wrote Sims, a Democrat. “You can't make this
stuff up! The most homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, xenophobic
member of our government is using legislative time, and tax payer dollars,
to interrupt a meeting to announce his sexual orientation.”
In the wake of Metcalfe's comments, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party
called for his resignation.
“Enough is enough. Daryl Metcalfe is a walking, talking embarrassment to
Pennsylvanians and doesn’t deserve the honor of serving in public office,”
said spokesman Brandon Cwalina in a statement.
In an interview with Triblive.com, Bradford said Metcalfe's comments were
“unpleasant and awkward and appalling.”
“In this day and age, that's really inappropriate,” he said.
When asked by Triblive.com if he meant to suggest that Bradford is gay,
Metcalfe said he did not know.
“I don't know what [Bradford's sexuality] is,” he said. “But I know from
him touching me all the time that he indicates he likes to touch men.”
When informed of Metcalfe's response, Bradford told Triblive.com he often
tries to calm Metcalfe down during contentious committee meetings and
smooth disagreements between Metcalfe and other members.
“I speak with my hands,” Bradford said. “I've tried to calm him down.”
Metcalfe has repeatedly spoken out against homosexuality. In 2013, he
invoked a House rule to stop Sims from speaking about the Supreme Court's
same-sex marriage rulings.
“For me to allow [Sims] to say things that I believe are open rebellion
against God are for me to participate in his open rebellion,” Metcalfe
told the Associated Press at the time.
He also led the charge to impeach then-Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who
he said created a “constitutional crisis” by refusing to defend the
state's same-sex marriage ban, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
When the Supreme Court recognized same-sex marriages across the country in
2015, Metcalfe said the justices displayed “judicial tyranny,” according
to PennLive.
“It shows what tyrants they are when they think that they can place
themselves above God's law, above natural law, and above the will of the
American people as we've seen it expressed in state after state after
state,” Metcalfe said.
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denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party has run out of gas.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for ending the disaster of the
Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
heterosexual-pa-lawmaker-brings-meeting-to-halt-after-male-colleague-
touches-his-arm/?tid=pm_politics_pop&utm_term=.97e0dc4befe2
While debating a land-use bill at a committee meeting on Tuesday night,
Pennsylvania state Rep. Matt Bradford laid his hand — for just a moment —
on the left forearm of the colleague sitting next to him.
That colleague was conservative Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, who interrupted
Bradford mid-sentence with a personal bit of information.
“Look, I'm a heterosexual. I have a wife, I love my wife, I don't like men
— as you might. But stop touching me all the time,” Metcalfe told
Bradford, who then began laughing.
[Pennsylvania state lawmaker says he's a heterosexual and doesn't like men
touching his arm]
Several other members of the committee, which Metcalfe chairs, giggled and
smirked.
“Keep your hands to yourself,” said Metcalfe, a Republican from Butler
County. “If you want to touch somebody, you have people on your side of
the aisle who might like it.
“I don't.”
Bradford, a Democrat, appeared to be stunned by the comments.
“Okay, chairman, chairman,” he said, widely grinning as committee members
laughed.
One member appeared to conceal her face from the camera with her hand.
“We're officially off the rails. ... My intent was just to beg for your
permission for about 30 seconds.”
“Then beg, don't touch,” responded Metcalfe, who is serving his 10th term
in office. Bradford continued to laugh.
“I don't know where we go from here, really,” Bradford said.
Bradford is married to a woman and has four children, according to his
online biography.
Neither Bradford nor Metcalfe could be immediately reached for comment.
Pennsylvania's first openly gay legislator, Rep. Brian Sims, sits on the
state government committee and turned to Facebook to express his outrage
toward Metcalfe, whom he called the Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus's
“head bigot.”
“PA State Representative Daryl Metcalfe disrupted a State Government
Committee meeting this morning — about a land use bill! — to loudly
declare his heterosexuality!” wrote Sims, a Democrat. “You can't make this
stuff up! The most homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, xenophobic
member of our government is using legislative time, and tax payer dollars,
to interrupt a meeting to announce his sexual orientation.”
In the wake of Metcalfe's comments, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party
called for his resignation.
“Enough is enough. Daryl Metcalfe is a walking, talking embarrassment to
Pennsylvanians and doesn’t deserve the honor of serving in public office,”
said spokesman Brandon Cwalina in a statement.
In an interview with Triblive.com, Bradford said Metcalfe's comments were
“unpleasant and awkward and appalling.”
“In this day and age, that's really inappropriate,” he said.
When asked by Triblive.com if he meant to suggest that Bradford is gay,
Metcalfe said he did not know.
“I don't know what [Bradford's sexuality] is,” he said. “But I know from
him touching me all the time that he indicates he likes to touch men.”
When informed of Metcalfe's response, Bradford told Triblive.com he often
tries to calm Metcalfe down during contentious committee meetings and
smooth disagreements between Metcalfe and other members.
“I speak with my hands,” Bradford said. “I've tried to calm him down.”
Metcalfe has repeatedly spoken out against homosexuality. In 2013, he
invoked a House rule to stop Sims from speaking about the Supreme Court's
same-sex marriage rulings.
“For me to allow [Sims] to say things that I believe are open rebellion
against God are for me to participate in his open rebellion,” Metcalfe
told the Associated Press at the time.
He also led the charge to impeach then-Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who
he said created a “constitutional crisis” by refusing to defend the
state's same-sex marriage ban, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
When the Supreme Court recognized same-sex marriages across the country in
2015, Metcalfe said the justices displayed “judicial tyranny,” according
to PennLive.
“It shows what tyrants they are when they think that they can place
themselves above God's law, above natural law, and above the will of the
American people as we've seen it expressed in state after state after
state,” Metcalfe said.
--
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party has run out of gas.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for ending the disaster of the
Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.
Mr. B1ack
Dec 6, 2017, 5:54:27 PM12/6/17
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On Wed, 6 Dec 2017 20:51:26 -0000 (UTC), "Leroy N. Soetoro"
<leroys...@bho-rejected.com> wrote:
>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/05/look-im-a-
>heterosexual-pa-lawmaker-brings-meeting-to-halt-after-male-colleague-
>touches-his-arm/?tid=pm_politics_pop&utm_term=.97e0dc4befe2
>
>While debating a land-use bill at a committee meeting on Tuesday night,
>Pennsylvania state Rep. Matt Bradford laid his hand — for just a moment —
>on the left forearm of the colleague sitting next to him.
>
>That colleague was conservative Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, who interrupted
>Bradford mid-sentence with a personal bit of information.
>
>“Look, I'm a heterosexual. I have a wife, I love my wife, I don't like men
>— as you might. But stop touching me all the time,” Metcalfe told
>Bradford, who then began laughing.
>
>[Pennsylvania state lawmaker says he's a heterosexual and doesn't like men
>touching his arm]
This is getting out of hand .....
<leroys...@bho-rejected.com> wrote:
>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/05/look-im-a-
>heterosexual-pa-lawmaker-brings-meeting-to-halt-after-male-colleague-
>touches-his-arm/?tid=pm_politics_pop&utm_term=.97e0dc4befe2
>
>While debating a land-use bill at a committee meeting on Tuesday night,
>Pennsylvania state Rep. Matt Bradford laid his hand — for just a moment —
>on the left forearm of the colleague sitting next to him.
>
>That colleague was conservative Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, who interrupted
>Bradford mid-sentence with a personal bit of information.
>
>“Look, I'm a heterosexual. I have a wife, I love my wife, I don't like men
>— as you might. But stop touching me all the time,” Metcalfe told
>Bradford, who then began laughing.
>
>[Pennsylvania state lawmaker says he's a heterosexual and doesn't like men
>touching his arm]
Of course if he'd done the same, completely natural,
thing to a FEMALE colleague - "RAPE !!! ASSAULT !!!" ....
Rudy Canoza
Dec 6, 2017, 6:03:30 PM12/6/17
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State Democrats call for Metcalfe to resign over 'I don't like men as
you might' remark
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/capitol-ideas/mc-nws-daryl-metcalfe-matt-bradford-touching-a-democrat-20171205-story.html
you might' remark
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/capitol-ideas/mc-nws-daryl-metcalfe-matt-bradford-touching-a-democrat-20171205-story.html
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