Political debates can get heated as we draw closer to Election Day, and though that sentiment has proven true in the presidential debates thus far, the local debates are feeling the heat as well.
A debate between two Democratic congressional rivals contesting a redrawn California district nearly turned a heated debate into an all-out physical brawl on Thursday, reports MSN. Representatives Brad Sherman and Howard Berman were arguing about a federal immigration bill when out of the blue, Sherman grabbed Berman and forcefully asked: “Do you want to get into this?”
The already-rowdy crowd started cheering and shouting as a sheriff’s deputy and a debate organizer pushed the two apart to prevent a pugilistic match from breaking our, and Berman’s campaign responded by posting a 22-second clip on YouTube showing the almost-altercation accompanied by a press release that read “Brad Sherman attempts to start fight at college debate.”
“There was not a question in my mind, he was challenging him to a fight,” said Berman campaign manager Brandon Hall in a phone interview via Mercury News. “Howard’s kind of a small guy and Brad was right in his face grabbing him,” he said, continuing, “(Berman) was taken back for sure, but he handled it very coolly,” furthermore, “He tried to calm the crowd, he tried to back away from Brad and joke about it, but yes he was shaken by this.”
Sherman campaign consultant Parke Skelton downplayed the incident, saying that while Sherman regrets grabbing his opponent, he wasn’t going to start a physical fight:
“Brad regrets his role in the process by which the whole thing got too heated,” Skelton said. “Brad regrets that for sure. But again I think it was a mutual losing of cool there, and it’s one of those things that happens in a campaign sometimes.”
Imagine if all politicians settled their differences with a good-old-fashioned bare-knuckle boxing match. I can picture President Obama and Mitt Romney’s gentlemanly melee now. Something tells me that both of them can scrap.
Here’s the long video of the debate between California Democratic rivals Brad Sherman and Howard Berman, followed by the clip of the altercation itself if you want to skip to the good stuff:
Is America going to remain responsible, for other countries dismal human rights records? Are we just going to keep on importing more and more poverty, stifling the honest immigrants that wait patiently for years on our doorstep? Is the U.S government ignored for decades a need for tracking visitors, or even intentionally cutting off funds for constructing the real double layer fence at the border, committed by the George Bush presidency under the 2006 secure Fence act. I often wonder if there is some secret pact between those authorities south of the border and our own agencies, which we will accept a certain amount of their desperate illegal migrants, to proliferate for farming and corporate entities.
When our government has determined that regions of the border are being held by the drug cartels and these criminals have remained immune by intervention by ICE or even our military and that our sovereign nation has been invaded; that ranchers and landowners are fearful for their families and are in constant stress and live under prison conditions. Then we have Obama’s Department of Justice continuously attacking states as Arizona, because they can least afford the hundreds of millions of dollars states are forced by the courts to pay for free medical care, education for the children of illegal aliens throughout this country. Hundreds of billions of dollars are literary extracted from taxpayer’s pockets, to pay for illegal aliens stealing into America with unborn babies to pay for their delivery, their education and public welfare cash payments.
The TEA PARTY “THE PEOPLES PARTY” has stepped up to the plate. The TEA PARTY OF ALL RELIGIOUS DENOMINATION, EVERY CLASS, EVERY RACE ARE FED UP AND FRUSTRATED WITH THESE FREE GIVEAWAYS. NOW AN ESTIMATED 41 MILLION TEA PARTY MEMBERS AND STILL GATHERING STEAM AND ARE OPENLY FLOWING INTO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND ARE READY TO TACKLE THE CORRUPTION IN BOTH PARTIES.
ODDLY ENOUGH THE LIBERAL JOURNALISTS IN THE MAINSTREAM PRESS THINK THE WHOLE MOVEMENT HAS DISSOLVED, AFTER THE MASSIVE CROWD THAT OVERWELMED WASHINGTON DC SOME YEARS AGO. WE ARE STILL HERE AND WILL BE CAREFULLY WATCHING THE VOTING PUBLIC IN NOVEMBER. WHEN 71 PERCENT OF LEGAL HISPANICS HAVE STATED THEY WANT PHOTO ID’s SHOULD SHOWN, TO PROOF WHO THEY ARE ACCORDING TO THE PEW HISPANIC CENTER.
The children of illegal aliens have been unaware of their status, caused by their criminal parents entering our country? The Mother should be held responsible and deported as they have cost for decades record amounts of taxpayers’ money. SO UNLESS A SIMPLE CHANGE TO 14th AMENDMENT IS IMPOSED, BILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT SHOULD BE GOING TO OUR OWN POOR, OUR OWN HOMELESS OUR OWN CITIZENS, INSTEAD OF BEING APPROPRIATED TO PAY FOR ILLEGAL ALIEN WELFARE.
Today there has been a remedy for them through President Obama’s executive preference, although it should have been voted on in the Congress. This inconceivable problem will never go away and will indeed get far worse unless Congress enacts the BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP BILL. It is highly controversial and unless an amendment is forthcoming, the state treasuries will be forever drained. Pregnant mothers coming here with the deliberate plan to have their child on welfare and the hundreds of Billions of dollars extracted by inept federal laws of that says children born here automatically receive citizenship. The illegal alien parent is feeding from the welfare trough, without ever paying a cent into the fund. This can only escalate further as President Obama is encouraging illegal immigrants and migrants to come, by delivering free food stamps without any restrictions. Just look at California, THE SANCTUARY CITY STATE" Where Los Angeles city Administrator gave out the latest payout of the children of illegal alien parents. Two months and a hundred sixty million dollars later and now Los Angeles is pushing for another tax hike. This is incredulous-to let our lousy, incompetent federal government pay for all these illegal aliens in this border state. NO WONDER CALIFORNIA IS IN A DOWNWARD FISCAL SPIN?
Only the enactment to this amendment can stop this problem by making it official that only the children of at least one parent being a U.S. citizen. Also waiting for a vote in the House is mandatory E-verify “THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT” law to halt illegal aliens taking citizens and lawful residents jobs. Why this law sits dormant stands to show how many the politicians care about the legal workers, although this law has been carefully hidden from site by none other than Democrat majority leader Harry Reid. Why with 8.1 percent of Americans are jobless, why either the House or Senate refuses to bringing either of these laws to the HOUSE AND SENATE CHAMBERS.
Obviously the 47 percent mainstream Liberal-Communist-Marxist progressives will provide the ammunition to attack Romney, but they will stay silent about the pandering to the "Freeloaders" the scroungers, parasites and illegal aliens who live off the rest of us. Not forgetting that many in the percentage are the infirm and handicapped that needs a helping hand.
Sherman just got my VOTE!