Saine said she did only a little preparation before speech
Remarks about lynching from a Colorado state lawmaker drew criticism Monday after she posted a video of them on Facebook. Republican Rep. Lori Saine of Firestone made the comments on the House floor last Friday after a dust-up over sponsorship of the annual resolution commemorating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Colorado state Rep. Lori Saine is seen after she was arrested Dec. 5, 2017, at Denver International Airport after a TSA agent discovered a loaded firearm in her bag as she was going through security screening. Saine made comments about lynching last Friday that drew criticism Monday after she posted a video of them on Facebook.
“We have come a long way on that arc since the Reconstruction,” Saine told her colleagues in the legislature, “when whites and blacks alike were in nearly equal numbers lynched for the crime of being Republican.”
Historians reject the idea that blacks and their white political allies experienced the same levels of violence after the Civil War.
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