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warmfeet

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12. Fuck alabama.

Reply to hlthe2b (Original post)

Thu May 16, 2019, 06:03 PM

May 2019

Cut them off from everything. They can rot.

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**Breaking** Colorado Secretary of State forbids employees to travel to Alabama after Abortion Ban [View all] hlthe2b May 2019 OP

It's a start, indeed! demmiblue May 2019 #1

That's terrible. They'll never be able to enjoy Al Abama's rich cultural history underpants May 2019 #2

Gulf Coast is nice though--for both AL and MS hlthe2b May 2019 #3

I've already made reservations to go to Florida this year wryter2000 May 2019 #4

I wouldn't go to ANY red state right now. calimary May 2019 #7

+3 demigoddess May 2019 #9

What do you define as a "red state"? former9thward May 2019 #13

I'd look at several things. calimary May 2019 #31

Agree would not set foot in a red state for a vacation kimbutgar May 2019 #14

I have been driving around in Alabama this week. Sneederbunk May 2019 #5

Now we'll all have to drive around Alabama. Meaning outside of its borders. erronis May 2019 #6

'Genial but perverse' is the perfect description of that kind of person. Aristus May 2019 #10

Now that is great. dem4decades May 2019 #8

Good! I wrote that AL should be boycotted by BigmanPigman May 2019 #11

Fuck alabama. warmfeet May 2019 #12

Outside of Huntsville,.... paleotn May 2019 #15

Symbolic, of couse. Could never be enforced legally. WillowTree May 2019 #16

Umm, yes of course it can. The state is the employer and they pay for these trips for state business hlthe2b May 2019 #17

Which is just as I expeced.......the headline is a falsehood. WillowTree May 2019 #18

If you read the article it is acurate. The SOS has forbidden her employees to travel hlthe2b May 2019 #19

I was married to a State employee. I know the drill. WillowTree May 2019 #23

They can't for personal business but everyone knows they are talking about state business and YES hlthe2b May 2019 #26

Then they should state it that way in the headline, not as a blanket statement. WillowTree May 2019 #28

That is the headline from the Denver Post. Hardly clickbait. Everyone on this thread understood it hlthe2b May 2019 #29

Which is exactly what the article and header states obamanut2012 May 2019 #22

Then you're reading verbiage that doesn't appear on my screen. WillowTree May 2019 #25

It most certainly does. hlthe2b May 2019 #27

Of course it can be n/t obamanut2012 May 2019 #21

Utter nonsense. Not as stated in the article headline. WillowTree May 2019 #24

Michigan needs to do the Same Thing..... LovingA2andMI May 2019 #20

If you really, really need to go there . . . Aussie105 May 2019 #30

Employees aren't prohibited from traveling to Alabama StarfishSaver May 2019 #32

Of course. Just as has happened multiple times with the NC bathroom ban, for instance. hlthe2b May 2019 #33