Selection of Trump crony Mike Flynn for Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. Good one! (Page 1/4)
rinselberg DEC 28, 02:27 AM
At least five board members who oversee the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame have resigned after Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser (for 24 days) under President Donald J. Trump, was selected by the votes of other board members as one of the 2024 inductees.

In resignation letters seen by reporters for the New York Times and in interviews, resigning board members said that Flynn, who has embraced conspiracy theories and is a prominent 2020 presidential election "contrarian," should not be awarded this distinction.

The Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame was founded in 1965 and recognizes people from Rhode Island “who have made significant contributions” or who came to prominence for work they did while they were residents of the state. Year 2023 inductees included Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson, the first Black person and the second woman confirmed to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and J.L. “Lynn” Singleton, the president and chief executive of the Providence Performing Arts Center.

Mr. Flynn, who is from Rhode Island, was among those chosen in a December 13 tally of 19 voting board members.

A "cascade" of resignations has followed, according to reportage from the Providence Journal, Boston Globe and New York Times.



The poster art that I created in 2017 for "The Unveiling. Trump confederate Michael Flynn as you've not quite seen him before."
https://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum6/HTML/120708.html

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82-T/A [At Work] DEC 28, 09:48 AM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:At least five board members who oversee the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame have resigned after Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser (for 24 days) under President Donald J. Trump, was selected by the votes of other board members as one of the 2024 inductees.



I see this as a win/win. Flynn gets into the hall of fame, and the five liberal members resign.
olejoedad DEC 28, 11:04 AM
As 'democracy' is about compromise, what group of people are a 'threat to democracy'?
rinselberg DEC 28, 01:40 PM

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Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
I see this as a win/win. Flynn gets into the hall of fame, and the five liberal members resign.


What makes you think the five board members that have resigned are liberals?

Maybe they are sane conservatives... sane and conservative, which would distance them from Mike Flynn on not just one, but two scores (so to speak.)

I hope I remember to check up on this. I have a feeling that Mike Flynn's selection for the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame could well become a deselection.

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BingB DEC 28, 02:19 PM

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Originally posted by olejoedad:

As 'democracy' is about compromise, what group of people are a 'threat to democracy'?


Not so sure "democracy is about compromise". From my understanding "democracy" is about settling things with a majority vote.

This would mean that the group that is the "threat to democracy" is the one who tried to overturn a legitimate election through fraud and acts of violence instead of by legal means.
olejoedad DEC 28, 03:50 PM

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Originally posted by BingB:

Not so sure "democracy is about compromise". From my understanding "democracy" is about settling things with a majority vote.

This would mean that the group that is the "threat to democracy" is the one who tried to overturn a legitimate election through fraud and acts of violence instead of by legal means.



We actually have a Republic.

Why is that?

Our Republic, as configured in the Constitution, protects the rights of the minority.
Patrick DEC 28, 05:34 PM

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Originally posted by olejoedad:

Our Republic, as configured in the Constitution, protects the rights of the minority...



...which I guess is terrific for anyone who's fortunate enough to be a member of the privileged minority. It's certainly an effective way of keeping the hoi polloi where they belong.
rinselberg DEC 29, 01:04 PM
Will the last board member to leave the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame building please turn off the lights?

EXCERPTS

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The fallout continues from the vote earlier this month by a board aligned with the state's "Historian Laureate" Patrick Conley to induct retired U.S. Army lieutenant general—and former President Donald Trump's National Security Adviser—Michael Flynn into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame.

There are now eight confirmed resignations from the Hall of Fame board in protest over the vote to induct Flynn, which Conley has cast as a chance to "vindicate" the Rhode Island native in his home state.

Flynn was pardoned by then-President Donald Trump after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia during the transition period before Trump's 2017 inauguration.


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Past inductees run the gamut from Samuel Slater, an industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution," to former House Speaker John Harwood, a current member of the Hall of Fame board, to the late Vincent A. "Buddy" Cianci, Providence's infamous rogue mayor, Journal columnist Mark Patinkin and even Conley's wife, Gail Cahalan-Conley.




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Defending the choice, Conley—who was last reappointed as the state's honorary and unpaid "historian laureate" in 2020 by then-Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea—told The Journal: "Flynn did not commit high treason, espionage, sedition, or any high crime."

"Flynn was illegally surveilled by the outgoing Obama administration... set-up without benefit of counsel by two agents from a weaponized FBI.... [then] tried and convicted by a biased media," Conley said.


They should put him [Conley] "to sleep," as the late radio and TV personality Don Imus used to say.


Perhaps the most important unanswered question: Will Mike Flynn show up wearing one of his QAnon tee shirts for his induction ceremony—if there are induction ceremonies for the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame? I guess he can be photographed that way, even if there is no actual ceremony. Or maybe he will be represented with a painted portrait? Who knows, about the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame...

This is the best in-depth coverage I've stumbled across. It's a "must read" if you want to be talking about this story at whatever New Year's Eve or New Year's Day gatherings await you.

"More board members resign from RI Heritage Hall of Fame after vote to induct Michael Flynn"
Katherine Gregg for the Providence Journal; December 29, 2023.
https://www.providencejourn...nn-vote/72042936007/

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olejoedad DEC 29, 03:56 PM
I'm thinking Mr Conley has it right in his assessment of what transpired with General Flynn.

Some may disagree.
BingB DEC 31, 01:18 PM

"Flynn was illegally surveilled by the outgoing Obama administration... set-up without benefit of counsel by two agents from a weaponized FBI.... [then] tried and convicted by a biased media," Conley said.


Conley forgot to mention that Trump was also in on the railroading of Flynn. He was the one who sacked Flynn after less than one month as National Security Advisor.