Heads up: Bicameral catfight!
By Wade KwonWhat you’ve just witnessed is Alabama legislating at its finest. Sen. Charles Bishop (R-Jasper) punched Sen. Lowell Barron (D-Fyffe) in the head, during the final day of the legislative session. Alabama Public Television captured the incident, apparently sparked by Barron calling Bishop a “son of a bitch” while on the Senate floor.
Talk about ending the season on a cliffhanger!! Bishop sorta apologized, but what can we look forward to next season on “The Bald and the Beatable”? Will the Senate erupt in gang warfare? Was Tuesday’s turnout of 9.6 percent of voters too high? Will they ever get around to, you know, making bills into laws? And can’t they come up with better profane insults? Certainly, Alabamians have called their elected leaders much worse for years.
• Montgomery Advertiser: One senator punches another on final day of session
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Thursday, June 7, 2007, 11:28 pm
Wade, I just posted the video at my place too, and I’m looking for a clever name for the bout. Where’s Mohammed Ali when we need him?
Friday, June 8, 2007, 12:31 am
Great video. I couldn’t make out what was said just before the punch though.
Friday, June 8, 2007, 1:00 am
Kathy: Well, he’s floating like a butterfly, stinging like a bee. Obviously.
mooncat: He probably said something like “Yo mama so fat, when I climb on top of her, I get a nosebleed!”
Friday, June 8, 2007, 6:07 am
That was great! I really enjoyed it. Now if you can get the video of the regular fights from the floors of the legislatures in Taiwan, Japan and other Pacific/Asian nations you can do Friday Night Fights on pay-per-view and watch the cash roll in!
Make sure to post the video after the rematch (and tell me the odds so I know who to bet on).
Friday, June 8, 2007, 8:18 am
Lowell Barron has asked for a rematch.
Does this mean a special session?
Friday, June 8, 2007, 9:08 am
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Saturday, June 9, 2007, 2:49 am
Bwaaa! That was awesome! He hits like a Siamese kitten!
Sunday, July 1, 2007, 11:29 pm
Wade on June 2007
June, one more time
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