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Why I Confronted Jeff Flake on a Plane
CNN ^ | Fri December 15, 2017 | Ady Barkan

Posted on 12/15/2017 12:40:36 PM PST by nickcarraway

I've spent my career as an advocate for economic justice, fighting for basic fairness for working families. It wasn't until this past year that I began fighting for my own life.

It's that fight that led me to get arrested protesting the Republican tax plan in Washington, and that led me into debating it with Sen. Jeff Flake at 30,000 feet in the air on my way home.

I never thought I'd be in this position. A year ago, I was healthy, taking morning runs on the California coast and looking forward to a new life with my newborn son, Carl.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: adybarkan; anarchist; arizona; clintonnonnews; cnn; demagogue; flake; jeffflake; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; rioter
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1 posted on 12/15/2017 12:40:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Flakes On A Plane?


2 posted on 12/15/2017 12:42:47 PM PST by dfwgator
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Yeah I was gonna do that, too.

How about:

Flake’s On a Plane!


3 posted on 12/15/2017 12:43:50 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway
advocate for economic justice, fighting for basic fairness for working families

In other words, a communist.

4 posted on 12/15/2017 12:44:03 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (The GOP-Democrat-Media Uniparty must be destroyed.)
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Lucky for this assclown they were merely arrested. Further, two "flakes" board an airplane...... Fill in with what you like. 😹
5 posted on 12/15/2017 12:44:46 PM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Don’t want to imagine what a debate between two flakes is like. But going through life that stupid has got to hurt.


6 posted on 12/15/2017 12:45:03 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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Hey CNN. Then why the f-— did Democrats force Obamacare on us?! You said nothing and probably encouraged them. Your opinion means nothing because you are a lair.


7 posted on 12/15/2017 12:45:03 PM PST by dhs12345
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Flake disgusts me. That said, so do nutcases who think they get a private debate (usually them yelling and lecturing) at 30,000 ft.

Nobody else wants to hear that crap.


8 posted on 12/15/2017 12:45:32 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ... we.)
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To: nickcarraway

I, I, me, me, me, I, I....

When did Zero start “reporting”?


9 posted on 12/15/2017 12:50:36 PM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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Why I Confronted Jeff Flake on a Plane

The airline crew should have made him step outside to cool off.

10 posted on 12/15/2017 12:51:27 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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What does one major in during college become an advocate for economic justice?

Feminist Auctioneering?

Queer Puppet Theory?

Transgendered Aleutian Folk Music?


11 posted on 12/15/2017 12:51:48 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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Ady Barkan
Director of Local Progress, Director of Fed Up
Economic Justice, Local Progress, Federal Reserve Accountability

12 posted on 12/15/2017 12:54:13 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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Ha ha ha ha Flake. He tried to be "Maverick Jr.". He tried to be the "reasonable statesman", Flake trashed Roy Moore. He talks like a McBush.

Don't you seek Flake, THEY WILL NEVER LIKE YOU. No matter how much you appease them and talk their talk—they will never never never like or respect you.

Ha ha ha ha.
 

13 posted on 12/15/2017 12:54:49 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
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Ady Barkan is co-director of the Fed Up campaign, an initiative of the Center for Popular Democracy.The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) is a left-leaning nonprofit advocacy group in the United States. CPD is a federation of groups that includes some of the old chapters of ACORN. The group's stated goal is to "envision and win an innovative pro-worker, pro-immigrant, racial and economic justice agenda." The organization is allied with teachers’ unions and has published studies criticizing charter schools.




14 posted on 12/15/2017 12:55:06 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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Perhaps he should take Obama’s advice and just take a pain pill.


15 posted on 12/15/2017 12:55:15 PM PST by fwdude (Why is it that the only positive things to come out of LGBT organizations are their AIDS tests?)
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#12: "Ady Barkan Director of Local Progress, Director of Fed Up Economic Justice, Local Progress, Federal Reserve Accountability"

Does that mean if he watches his pennies, that he'll soon be able to move out of his mom's basement?
 

16 posted on 12/15/2017 12:57:36 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: nickcarraway

...led me into debating it with Sen. Jeff Flake at 30,000 feet in the air...

Sounds like a terrorist incident. Should have been escort off the plane. At 30,000 feet.


17 posted on 12/15/2017 12:58:18 PM PST by McGruff (Lock Her Up! In a Padded Cell!)
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Flake should have told him to sit the F down and stop harassing him. Plane ticket doesn’t include random idiot bothering a senator.


18 posted on 12/15/2017 12:58:58 PM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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[ In other words, a communist. ]

Well he WAS on

Communist
News
Network

so......


19 posted on 12/15/2017 1:02:23 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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since he keeps referring to ‘his family” should i assume he’s a homo?


20 posted on 12/15/2017 1:02:38 PM PST by ronniesgal (still winning !!)
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