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Hickenlooper apologizes for resurfaced comment comparing himself to slave
The Hill ^ | 06 15 2020 | Julia Manchester

Posted on 06/16/2020 9:09:25 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) has apologized after video surfaced of him comparing himself and elected officials to slaves on ships, comments he appeared to make six years ago while he was governor.

"Taking a look at this video from six years ago, I recognize that my comments were painful. I did not intend them to be. I offer my deepest apologies," Hickenlooper, who is running for Senate, said in a statement released by his campaign on Monday.

The congressional hopeful's apology came after Tay Anderson, a member of the Denver School Board, on Monday tweeted a video of Hickenlooper making the comparison.

"If I was to describe a scheduler, a political scheduler, imagine an ancient slave ship with the guy with the whip, and you're rowing," Hickenlooper said to laughter in the video. "We elected officials are the ones that are rowing, and they have nothing but hard, often thankless things to do."

SNIP

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cringey; democratscandals; gaffe; hickenlooper
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1 posted on 06/16/2020 9:09:25 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Lickenpooper and the almost all of remaining politicians are turning into cancerous tumors in this Republic.


2 posted on 06/16/2020 9:11:30 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (uff)
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To: yesthatjallen

Just what you’d expect a white supremacist to say.


3 posted on 06/16/2020 9:11:42 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: yesthatjallen

AID

Another idiot Democrat


4 posted on 06/16/2020 9:11:59 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump pence II!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Gestapo seeks anyone and everyone who departs from the goose step, no matter how long ago.


5 posted on 06/16/2020 9:12:52 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (I'd rather have a rude President than a polite tyrant.)
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To: yesthatjallen

splash one.


6 posted on 06/16/2020 9:12:54 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: yesthatjallen

On your knees so your people know you mean it. It’s the only way.


7 posted on 06/16/2020 9:13:23 AM PDT by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Sorry, Hickenlooper, not good enough. You’re going to have to resign and......wait, you’re a Democrat?....oh....haaaaa!.....just bustin’ your chops, John. You’re good, you’re good.


8 posted on 06/16/2020 9:14:27 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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He was trying to be funny I guess and the comment tells us how he views government.

I don’t see politicians as rowers. I see the taxpayers as rowers.


9 posted on 06/16/2020 9:15:00 AM PDT by plain talk
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Chickenpooper (I took my mom to see Deep Throat) just keeps 'em coming.

I'm unafilliated, so I got two ballots. I only marked Romanoff. He's an open Marxist, Chickenpooper, whatever.

Either way, smarmy-ass Gardner, who was my Rep before becoming Senator, won't be there much longer.

I think I despise him more than I do Chickenpooper.

10 posted on 06/16/2020 9:16:32 AM PDT by real saxophonist (If you don't have a gun, sell some toilet paper, and go buy a gun. - Colion Noir)
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The sad thing is, his comments made sense, and were not pro-slavery, or even dealing with the slave trade.

He was referencing the concept that ancient ships had slaves who did the rowing.


11 posted on 06/16/2020 9:19:51 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: plain talk

Definitely, he had the analogy backwards.


12 posted on 06/16/2020 9:20:34 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: yesthatjallen

White male politicians might want to consider alternate careers.


13 posted on 06/16/2020 9:26:51 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: yesthatjallen

“The Jerk: I Was Born a Poor Black Child (Bale of Cotton)”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4PBwOLJWT4


14 posted on 06/16/2020 9:29:41 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Slo-Joe Biden... puts the DEM in Dementia.)
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To: yesthatjallen
If you are really sorry wear one of these.


15 posted on 06/16/2020 9:29:41 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: Beagle8U

Gov Chicken Pooper even looks something like Steve Martin in ‘The Jerk’.


16 posted on 06/16/2020 9:32:28 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Slo-Joe Biden... puts the DEM in Dementia.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Imagine an ancient slave ship with the guy with the whip, and you’re ***rowing***.

Wonder what his report card for history was


17 posted on 06/16/2020 9:57:21 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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Imagine an ancient slave ship with the guy with the whip, and you’re ***rowing***. Wonder what his report card for history was

Probably pretty good if he was talking about Muslim slave galleys in the Mediterranean, where huge numbers of European slaves were used

18 posted on 06/16/2020 10:05:44 AM PDT by AbnSarge
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Bet has no clue of what Muslim slave galley were.


19 posted on 06/16/2020 10:12:57 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: yesthatjallen

“I was born a poor black child.” LMAO


20 posted on 06/16/2020 10:28:22 AM PDT by Mr. Rabbit
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