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struggle4progress

(123,889 posts)
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 02:28 PM Tuesday

Virginia Foxx called out for dishonesty

Jul 29, 2025

Virginia Foxx holds up time on during a congressional hearing talking about walk-in freezers, saying her constituents care about this. Meanwhile, Joe Neguse points out a big problem with this: she doesn't hold town halls.

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JustAnotherGen

(35,992 posts)
1. Her district will send her back
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 02:39 PM
Tuesday

She's their ideal and represents WHAT they are: Lying, racist, hateful unAmerican pieces of shit.

yardwork

(67,343 posts)
6. It's incredible that she keeps getting reelected.
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 03:49 PM
Tuesday

Her district includes Winston Salem, which has a large Black population and plenty of smart people (Wake Forest University, a big healthcare system, civic groups).

Foxx lies and lies. Last election she put up big billboards saying she would "save Medicaid."

I truly hate her and the Republicans who have gerrymandered this beautiful state so that evil people like Foxx get reelected.

10. Winston Salem will be out of the mix in 2025 in her district, but she'll still get elected
Wed Jul 30, 2025, 03:37 AM
Yesterday

The bulk of Winston Salem's going to the 10th, and the eastern part of Forsyth county will be in the 6th district. For Foxx's 5th district, the new NC congressional map only has the liberal towns of Boone/Blowing Rock (home of Appalachian State University.) The rest of Watauga county is red. And all of the other counties in the 5th district are red, red, red. Sadly, she'll be reelected, probably as long as she wants to be in office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina%27s_congressional_districts#/media/File:North_Carolina_Congressional_Districts,_119th_Congress.svg

And the sliver of the new 5th district that goes into Guilford County/Greensboro area is the wealthy chunk of the county. Some blue, but mostly red.

Virginia Foxx has, is, and will always be awful.

allegorical oracle

(5,439 posts)
7. Am no ageist, but she makes Chuck Grassley seems like a 15-year-old. Wouldn't matter so
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 03:52 PM
Tuesday

much if she weren't so nasty and ill-tempered.

Added: Didn't know about her background, so looked her up on Wikipedia. She just may be dishonest:

In December 2020, Foxx voted against the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act (MORE), which aimed to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act.[64] According to financial disclosure reports, she has made at least six investments in Altria, one of the world's largest tobacco companies and a leader in the burgeoning U.S. cannabis industry, since September 2020.[65] In all, records show she has purchased somewhere between $79,000 and $210,000 in Altria stock.[66]

Vinca

(52,459 posts)
8. To be fair, today I'm thinking about walk-in freezers. Mainly because it's so freaking hot the air conditioner
Tue Jul 29, 2025, 03:55 PM
Tuesday

makes things only slightly bearable. Not that climate change is an issue Foxx and her cohorts sneer at or anything. Nasty cow.

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