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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Pro-family leaders' ask House GOP leader to reinstate Rep. Steve King's committee memberships
group of about 200 people calling themselves pro-family leaders is calling for Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to be reinstated to the committee assignments he lost as part of the fallout last month for reportedly questioning whether the term white nationalist should be offensive.
A letter to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) which King shared Tuesday on Twitter also asks for McCarthy to publicly apologize for the punishment, calling it a rush to judgment.
Unlike North Korea, we in the United States are innocent until proven guilty and hold to the principles of Western Civilization, as Rep. King so admirably does, the letter says.
Its signatories include former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), evangelical author James Dobson and William Owens, founder and president of the Coalition of African American Pastors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pro-family-leaders-ask-house-gop-leader-to-reinstate-rep-steve-kings-committee-memberships/2019/02/12/5bcc47ce-2ef3-11e9-86ab-5d02109aeb01_story.html
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)doesn't surprise me coming from Tom DeLay.
Doremus
(7,261 posts)Gothmog
(145,794 posts)gopiscrap
(23,766 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,191 posts)It's not all about you 200 ... what about the rest of us, the millions of us who are constantly offended by King's racist and bigoted rhetoric?
Vogon_Glory
(9,136 posts)I never thought theyd be this stupid. Id have thought that if they wanted to keep potential voters interested in their social agenda as the electorate changes from overwhelmingly Euro-American to something more blended, they would have quietly, carefully backed away from Steve King and his unapologetic white supremacist associations But nope, theyre still acting like its a white electorate.
Fools.
And their movements successor leadership will be running around like headless chickens wondering why the majority of voters will see them with revulsion.
I am proud to be part of the movement opposing these reactionaries, and Im grateful that theyre this clueless.