Malloy Piles On Pence: ‘When You See A Bigot, You Have To Call Them On It’

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy appears on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on March 31, 2015.
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Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) on Tuesday described Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) as a “bigot” and said that politicians have a responsibility to speak out against Indiana’s divisive religious freedom law.

Pence is “not a stupid man, but he’s done stupid things,” Malloy said during an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “And signing this law — and quite frankly promoting this law, knowing exactly what it was going to do — was an incredibly stupid thing for him to do.”

“When you see a bigot, you have to call them on it,” he said.

Later in the segment, Malloy said Pence made his intentions clear when he signed the bill into law flanked by “three homophobic men who have made it a part of their business to make gay people as miserable as possible.”

“The governor knew what he was doing,” Malloy added.

Malloy announced Monday that he would sign an executive order on state-funded travel to Indiana in protest of the law.

Watch below via MSNBC:

h/t Raw Story

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  1. Run, Dannel, run!

    More like this…please!

  2. As my father would say, “what do you expect from a pig but a grunt?”

  3. Avatar for tao tao says:

    That’s bigot, bigot, bigot. On national teevee no less. Ha.

  4. I don’t watch Scarborough…what was his reaction when Malloy called Pence a bigot?

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