KENNEDY ON U.S. SENATE FLOOR: ANTI-COP STUPIDITY AT THE KREWE OF CARROLLTON WAS DISGRACEFUL

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. John Kennedy issued the following press release:

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) condemned some members of the Krewe of Carrollton for harassing police officers during a recent Mardi Gras parade in a speech on the U.S. Senate floor.

Key excerpts of the speech are below:

"I want to choose my words carefully here because I love Louisiana. . . . But sometimes some of my people do dumb things. We're all human. And something just happened at Mardi Gras that turned my stomach."

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"We had the Krewe of Carrollton sponsor a float. Wonderful people in the Krewe of Carrollton. One of the oldest krewes we have. But there were some knuckleheads on those floats. . . . And 41 people on one of the Krewe of Carrollton floats w...