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Steal
15th May 2012, 08:22 PM
This is great ;D

Rep. Steve Vaillancourt (R-Manchester) shouted, "Sieg Heil" and moved his hand in the air after House Speaker William O'Brien (R-Mont Vernon) restricted what he could address during a floor debate on an amendment to a state voter ID bill. O'Brien had restricted what Vaillancourt could say about the full bill, saying that he could not reference the House Election Law Committee's discussion, only the issues presented in the committee report.
O'Brien, who had previously threatened to toss Vaillancourt from the floor, used Vaillancourt's outburst to have the veteran lawmaker moved off the floor. It is first time in at least a decade that a House member has been removed from the chamber in New Hampshire. House members then voted 238 to 103 to allow Vaillancourt to apologize to the full chamber in order to be allowed back in, setting off further debate when Vaillancourt did not apologize in the manner that O'Brien had expected.
"Part of the apology is to get the record straight. I did not use the word Hitler," Vaillancourt said before O'Brien ordered him away from the podium.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/15/steve-vaillancourt-new-hampshire-lawmaker-voter-id_n_1518432.html

joboo
15th May 2012, 08:46 PM
http://img.izismile.com/img/img2/20090728/hitler_10.gif (http://izismile.com/2009/07/28/hitler_in_gif_animations_18_gifs-10.html)

Cebu_4_2
15th May 2012, 08:50 PM
I would clearly vote Vaillancourt if I could.

Twisted Titan
16th May 2012, 03:21 AM
Exactly what did he do it for?

To bring attention to bad legislation?

Awoke
16th May 2012, 04:33 AM
Sounds like they wouldn't let him discuss the discussion that surrounded the report. They basically gagged him, and said "You can only discuss what is written down, not what you overheard in group dicussion".

So he acted like the House Speaker was a dictator.

Spectrism
16th May 2012, 04:54 AM
While I am all for open debate, I don't know what was agreed behind the scenes. It seems to me that the bill was to require certain ID at voting places to assure who is voting. Sounds reasonable to me. For Vaillancourt to object to that in light of the federal fascist power grabs is a bit much for me.