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@colmonelridge
Oct 16, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
What we saw tonight on the stage was a so called Governor, father, & Christian, attack the children of his opponent, belittle coal miners, & small business owners, and insult the intelligence of every Kentuckian. The choice is clear Team Bevin or #TeamKentucky.
It’s also clear that when good people don’t stand up bad things happen. @AndyBeshearKY & @JColemanKY have stood up, but next year we need good people to stand up and run for House & Senate seats to give Beshear/Coleman & the rest of KY some backup.
Let’s stop being afraid to step up. Matt Bevin has proven anybody can be elected. But he’s also proven that when the wrong people have power, wrong rules over what’s right. We can’t afford that. We couldn’t four years ago & we can’t moving forward.

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Sep 23, 2020
Two things and then I’m out. I will not tolerate the challenging of @DanielCameronAG’s blackness. I’ve been on the receiving end of that attack & regardless of politics & a differing world view, we are both black men in America.
And to the nice folk DM’ing me about how I’m sewing seeds of hate, stoking the fires of division, and fear mongering, let me be clear. I’ve got no beef with law enforcement. I love good police officers, first responders, and our Armed Forces.
And I love good law enforcement enough to be exhausted by the continued excusing of the bad. I love my Commonwealth enough to know we must be better than the false binary choice of supporting law enforcement or supporting black lives.
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Aug 4, 2019
America has seen this domestic terrorism before. America knows white nationalism well. Thoughts & prayers won’t stop this. Gun legislation won’t stop it. We can begin by rejecting language & policies that demonize & scapegoat people of color and immigrants as “the other”.
Instead of chanting “send them back”, let’s begin the hard work of building a nation that truly lives the creed of “We the People”. Not black, white, or brown. Not American born or immigrant, but we the people, created by God, worthy of life, liberty, dignity, & happiness.
For those who have been asked to believe that the black or brown person working and living in our nation has somehow come at your expense, that is not only not true, it is a lie perpetuated to harness your fears into votes.
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Jun 24, 2019
Look, @ScottJenningsKY has issues with strong women, strong people of color, & Lord forbid it’s a combination of the two. I’ve experienced this in person, seen it on @CNN, & now in this salute to impotence. courier-journal.com/story/opinion/… via @courierjournal
The truth is both @LtGovHampton & @AlisonForKY are elected and owe the Governor nothing. Governors who believe their fellow elected constitutional officers serve them and not the people of KY & the Constitution are dangerously incompetent & morally bankrupt.
If any constitutional officers should resign it should be the Governor who takes the oath of office as a recommendation rather than a directive, who has insulted entire communities of Kentuckians because of his arrogance, & who’s been itching for a way out since he won.
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Sep 10, 2018
We need to say the names of those we’ve lost to suicide. My father, Colmon Elridge II, should be looking at turning 80 & playing with his grandchildren. There’s not a day my heart doesn’t hurt & has for the past 33 years. #WorldSuicidePreventionDay
We need more than a day of bringing attention to this epidemic. We need government leaders willing to invest the resources in making access to affordable mental health resources more readily available. We can start by providing more funding to our Community Mental Health Centers.
Our CMHC’s, once a crown jewel of our Commonwealth, have been underfunded for over a decade and are one of the best resources we have to take on the crisis of mental health/illness head on.
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Aug 16, 2017
I've given dozens of speeches in our Capitol, each time feeling the proverbial eyes of Jeff. Davis hoping I'd be as inferior as his cause.
Grateful to friends @WilSchroder and @KYTrey who stood up for making our Capitol truly representative of all Kentuckians and a place where
@WilSchroder @KYTrey We do not limit the dreams of Kentucky to where we have been but where we go. I hope others, Democrats & Republicans support moving Davis.
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Jul 2, 2014
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was not an end to struggle but a recognition of our collective responsibility to build a more perfect union.
If America is to continue to be "that shining city upon a hill" we must uphold the right to and must all accept the responsibility to vote.
And 50 years later we must recognize that discrimination in all forms reminds us that our founding aspirations are tempered by human nature
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