Yahya Jammeh Quotes
I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.
"Gambia's Jammeh Issues Poll Threat." BBC News, 14 Sept. 2006.
Freshmen were not supposed to speak on the senate floor when La Follette first came to the Senate. He promptly took on the establishment, not only by flaunting tradition and speaking at all, but by speaking in favor of railroad rate reform. All but one Senator left the chamber. There was applause in the Senate galleries, and six years later 24 of the Senators had been turned out of office, in part due to La Follette's national campaigning for railroad rate reform.
Mecham was impeached and removed from office the next year.
Then running for reelection as a state legislator.
He was the chairman of the committee and the he had denied the Democrats equal access to witnesses before the meeting in a patently unfair process. When one of the minority members of the committee complained in the open hearing that the process was unfair this was his response. Most majority committee chairmen do not resort to this kind of unfair practice so this was not generally a typical practice but reflected the bitter hyperpartisanship that the House Republicans were engaging in at the time.
Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junkung Jammeh is a Gambian politician and former military officer who was the leader of The Gambia from 1994 to 2017, firstly as chairman of the Armed Forces Provisional Ruling Council (AFPRC) from 1994 to 1996 and then as President of the Gambia from 1996 to 2017.