Georgia Senate Rejects Honor for Jane Fonda
The Georgia Senate easily defeated a resolution honoring Jane Fonda.
Jane Fonda’s 1972 trip to North Vietnam is haunting her again. The Georgia Senate on Thursday nearly unanimously defeated a resolution that would have honored the actress’ charity work in the state. The Democratic sponsor had tried to withdraw the resolution after a rocky reception from colleagues and a phone call from Fonda’s office, but a Republican leader forced a vote, saying members of his caucus wanted to go on record against it. Fonda, who is out of the country, had asked for the resolution to be withdrawn to avoid the controversy, said the sponsor, Sen. Steen Miles of suburban Atlanta. The effort was defeated 38-1, with even Miles voting against it.
The resolution cited the Atlanta resident’s work as founder of the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, donations to universities and charities, and role as goodwill ambassador for the United Nations.
But Fonda’s political activities protesting the Vietnam War, including a trip to North Vietnam in 1972, have long made her a target of veterans. “I can think of no living American who is less worthy of this honor,” Republican Sen. John Douglas declared. “She is as guilty of treason as Benedict Arnold and Tokyo Rose.”
Miles argued that Fonda’s good works should outweigh the negatives.
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Lohan just turned 20 in July. Not only was, as Chris notes below, Fonda starring in crap like “Barbarella†at the age of 30 (despite the advantages of having a famous actor as her father) but she was providing aid and comfort to the enemies of her country at the age of 35. Frankly, I’d have preferred it if she’d instead gotten drunk and flashed her bare crotch to the paparazzi.
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appropriate mea culpa or correction, we snarkily wonder? Georgia Senator Wants To Honor Jane Fonda (VIDEO) — [Expose the Left] Darnell at The Independent Conservative writes in about legislation in the Georgia Senate that would honor Jane Fonda:Georgia Senate Rejects Honor for Jane Fonda– [Outside the Beltway] The Georgia Senate easily defeated a resolution honoring Jane Fonda. Jane Fonda’s 1972 trip to North Vietnam is haunting her again. The Georgia Senate on Thursday nearly unanimously defeated a resolution that would have
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Um… last I checked, 38-1 is not unanimous.
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Whoops, my bad. I reread the paragraph and discovered that what I had read as “unanimous” was, in fact, “nearly unanimous”.
Apologies.
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I read it that way the first time, too. “Nearly unanimous” is an odd phrase.
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Congrats to Georgia for having good sense.
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Jane rejected in Georgia…
I don’t know what the Georgia Dems were thinking when they introduced the resolution, maybe that her years of genuine service to the people of the state – most especially around teen pregnancy which is higher down here in the……
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