re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It didn’t get Illinois Senator Mark Kirk expelled. It did cause him to lose his election campaign against Tammy Duckworth.

Kirk lost for many reasons — but that wasn’t one of them. He never recovered his intellectual acuity after his stroke, but the fatal blow to his campaign was this exchange with Duckworth during a debate.

She had said, “My family has served this nation in uniform, going back to the Revolution. I’m a daughter of the American Revolution. I’ve bled for this nation.” In reply to this statement, Kirk mocked her by retorting: “I had forgotten that your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington”. That snarky comment doomed his campaign; her mother may have been Thai but her father’s family traced its heritage back to the Revolution.