Louisiana lawmaker stripped of health committee post for proposing to sterilize low-income women.
By on Oct 7th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Louisiana lawmaker stripped of health committee post for proposing to sterilize low-income women.
Last month, Louisiana state Rep. John LaBruzzo (R) announced a plan “to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied,” along with “tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children.” He predicted that people would “get excited” about his idea. After intense public backlash, however, he was removed yesterday from his position as vice chairman of the House Health and Welfare Committee. House Speaker Jim Tucker (R) said Labruzzo’s comments “impeded his abilities to help lead critical health-care reform.”
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LaBruzzo — neutered. ;)
October 7th, 2008 at 9:53 amShould have been stripped of more than his committee post.
PEACE
October 7th, 2008 at 9:54 amHe predicted that people would “get excited” about his idea.
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I think they did. “Horrified” might be a better word. Allowing LaBruzzo anywhere near health care policy would be like allowing Mark Foley anywhere near a caucus on child exploitation. Oh, wait…
October 7th, 2008 at 10:03 amI’m still trying to figure out where he was planning on getting the money to provide “tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children.”
October 7th, 2008 at 10:08 amGood!
But not good enough!
Do not reelect this a$$! EVER!
October 7th, 2008 at 10:09 amHere is some ideas people could get excited about:
If you and your family earn $60,000 a year or less AND you believe the rich should get more tax cuts THEN you loose your right to vote.
If you believe the last 8 years have been a fine example of smaller government and fiscal responsible government, then you loose your right to vote.
If you and your family earn $1,000,000 a year or more, then you loose your right to vote.
Those ideas get me excited!
October 7th, 2008 at 10:13 amWell, Dr. Mengel’s ideas are alive and well in Lousiana. They’ve got an exorcist for a Governor and a Nazi eugenics fan as a state legislator. To quote Homer, “It just gets worse and worse! Doh!”. Once again I state that Stupidity is greater that the speed of light. Why? Simple, the speed of light has a limit.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:13 amImpeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush, while there’s still time, and Save the Constitution!
This one of those stupid ideas you wonder how it ever went from just a fleeting silly stupid thought in LaBruzzos head to get traction and linger long enough for him to start thinking “Hey this is not a bad idea!”
October 7th, 2008 at 10:18 amGuess he learned you can’t peddle that crap in election years. Makes the party look bad!
October 7th, 2008 at 10:27 amUntil there are real consequenses for this type of behavior they will continue to push thier class warfare at every opportunity.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:28 amLaBruzzo’s first idea was to sterilize low income women. His second plan would then be to re-locate them to local ghettos. His third plan was to move them from the ghettos to labor camps.
Typical, redneck, red-state, repug, nazi scumbag.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:31 amPoor guy, see what listening to Rush Limbaugh, Dennis Praeger, Michael Savage, et al does for you? You begin to think that that kind of talk is normal and even makes sense instead of the vile that it is…
October 7th, 2008 at 10:34 amFini,People got “so excited about this” that he got booted off the committe.Know if this could happen to all politicians who come up with crap instead of real proposal`s we all can live with we would be better off.It`s just to bad that it took so long to do this.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:35 amLaBruzzo believes that wealth is genetic. If we stop poor people from reproducing, and we get rich people to reproduce more, then our country will be filled with rich people and no poor people!
Wealth isn’t genetic. Although stupidity can be — I feel for any children LaBruzzo has.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:45 amGood riddance. What we don’t need is to increase the percentage of trust fund brats on campuses. Children from lower income families can do just as good if not better than wealthy kids if they have parents conveying to them a love of learning. They then get to grow up to prosper with knowledge instead of relying on social promotion.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:55 amPoor John LaBruzzo – No one understands him or his desire for castration and sterilization of the ‘lower class’.
Maybe he can earn some extra income by hosting KKK parties on his lawn.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:12 amDon’t flame me, but I could possibly see the sterilization as offering a form of birth control. I would raise all sorts of questions about the ethics (especially freedom to consent to what is essentially an irreversible operation) and don’t at all agree. But I could possibly see where that idea could be floated.
What I see as “raising the bar” on outrageousness (and making the evil manifest) is that this is coupled with a plan to encourage high income folks to have more children.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:14 amYeah, tie HIS “tube” so he can’t spawn any more good little republican hate mongers.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:38 amThis guy out-creeps, Rick “man on dog” Santorum.
Yikes. Dr. Mengele LIVES!
October 7th, 2008 at 12:17 pmLabruzzo’s comments “impeded his abilities to help lead critical health-care reform.”
Ya think? Duh, racists don’t make good role models.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:27 pmHe needs to be neutered for real and in public. It is time to take serious action against the right wing fascists that threaten our society. The time for words has long since passed. It is time to go after them and humiliate them in public and in such a manner as to utterly destroy them. It is time to take off the gloves.
October 7th, 2008 at 12:36 pmKarma meet John, John meet Karma.
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