Rep. Markwayne Mullin calls government shutdown 'last resort'
By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer on Aug 9, 2013, at 2:05 PM Updated on 8/09/13 at 5:15 PM
Second District Rep. Markwayne Mullin
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Her biological father from Oklahoma and her adoptive parents from South Carolina spent several hours Monday and Tuesday on the sixth floor of the state's Kerr office building, where the Court of Civil Appeals meets in Tulsa.
A cause of the fire is under investigation.
CHOUTEAU - Second District Rep. Markwayne Mullin said Friday that threatening a shutdown of all non-essential government functions to defund the Affordable Care Act should be considered only as "a last resort."
"The best thing we have coming up is an election in 2014," Mullin told about 50 people at the Chouteau City Hall. "The people who supported this thing are starting to come out and admit it's going to be the train wreck everybody said it was going to be.
"They've got a choice," Mullin said. "They can choose the president's agenda, or they can listen to their constituents."
Mullin was greeted with several questions about why President Barack Obama has not been impeached.
Mullin said impeachment is unlikely, and he cut off a man who referred to Obama as "an illegal president ... from Kenya."
"I've never been a birther," Mullin said. "People had four years to make that case and didn't do it."
Mullin also interrupted an elderly veteran who said, "A lot of people out here think we have a Black Moslim in the White House."
"You fought for your country, sir. You can do what you want, but I am very careful about putting labels on anybody," Mullin said.
"I could care less about what color (Obama) is. What I don't like is his agenda, his vision for America," he said.
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Her biological father from Oklahoma and her adoptive parents from South Carolina spent several hours Monday and Tuesday on the sixth floor of the state's Kerr office building, where the Court of Civil Appeals meets in Tulsa.
A cause of the fire is under investigation.
