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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWay to go, NC, for electing anti-transgender "bathroom bill" author & Proud Boys bud Dan Bishop.
GOP Congressional Candidate Has Ties to Far-Right Supporter of the Proud Boys
Dan Bishop met for 45 minutes with anti-Muslim activist.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/gop-congressional-candidate-has-ties-to-far-right-supporter-of-the-proud-boys/
The campaign of North Carolina Republican congressional candidate Dan Bishop has associated with a far-right activist with a history of bigoted rhetoric who has defended the Proud Boys, a controversial neo-fascist outfit. Bishop, a state senator who authored North Carolinas anti-transgender bathroom bill, is competing in Tuesdays special election in the states 9th district.
The activist, Brian Talbert, runs a local organization called Deplorable Pride, a right-wing group that bills itself as a conservative LGBT voice. (Talbert said in a video posted this year that he is against transgenders in the military.) In June 2017, Talbert, who is gay, made national news when the board of Charlottes annual Pride celebration rejected his groups application to enter a float in its parade, referring to a precedent of rejecting participation from organizations espousing anti-LGBTQ religious or public policy stances. About that time, the White House, according to Talbert, called him with a message of support. According to the Charlotte Observer, the call had been initiated because the White House wanted to praise the group for joining a sit-in staged at a Starbucks, where staff had made fun of a customer wearing a T-shirt supporting President Donald Trump.
The LGBTQ advocacy organization GLAAD condemned Deplorable Pride in 2017, pointing to Talberts social media history. One post attributed to Talbert, which is no longer visible but was documented by GLAAD, stated, Am I the only one pissed it wasnt a real ban on all muslims? I say get rid of all the camel fuckers. Wipe them from the face of the earth. (Talbert says this post was fabricated, but after GLADD publicized it, Deplorable Pride wrote in a comment on the GLAAD page, I fully stand behind all my comments.) In a 2017 Facebook comment from his personal Facebook profile, Talbert said, Mohammed sucks cocks in hell.
Talbert has also been a supporter of the Proud Boys, which has a documented history of inciting violence, for which some of its members have been criminally charged. He has noted that the Proud Boys have offered protection to members of Deplorable Pride during his groups public events. The Southern Poverty Law Center has deemed the Proud Boys a hate group, a label the Proud Boys reject. When the SPLC issued that designation in 2018, Talbert rejected it, too, criticizing the SPLC label and defending the group. Our LBGT organization, Deplorable Pride, will always be an ally to the Proud Boys, he said to Big League Politics at the time. In a separate post on March 12, 2018, the Deplorable Pride Facebook account declared, Our support for the Proud Boys stands just as strong now as it did the first day we met them. They are our MAGA brothers.
Dan Bishop met for 45 minutes with anti-Muslim activist.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/gop-congressional-candidate-has-ties-to-far-right-supporter-of-the-proud-boys/
The campaign of North Carolina Republican congressional candidate Dan Bishop has associated with a far-right activist with a history of bigoted rhetoric who has defended the Proud Boys, a controversial neo-fascist outfit. Bishop, a state senator who authored North Carolinas anti-transgender bathroom bill, is competing in Tuesdays special election in the states 9th district.
The activist, Brian Talbert, runs a local organization called Deplorable Pride, a right-wing group that bills itself as a conservative LGBT voice. (Talbert said in a video posted this year that he is against transgenders in the military.) In June 2017, Talbert, who is gay, made national news when the board of Charlottes annual Pride celebration rejected his groups application to enter a float in its parade, referring to a precedent of rejecting participation from organizations espousing anti-LGBTQ religious or public policy stances. About that time, the White House, according to Talbert, called him with a message of support. According to the Charlotte Observer, the call had been initiated because the White House wanted to praise the group for joining a sit-in staged at a Starbucks, where staff had made fun of a customer wearing a T-shirt supporting President Donald Trump.
The LGBTQ advocacy organization GLAAD condemned Deplorable Pride in 2017, pointing to Talberts social media history. One post attributed to Talbert, which is no longer visible but was documented by GLAAD, stated, Am I the only one pissed it wasnt a real ban on all muslims? I say get rid of all the camel fuckers. Wipe them from the face of the earth. (Talbert says this post was fabricated, but after GLADD publicized it, Deplorable Pride wrote in a comment on the GLAAD page, I fully stand behind all my comments.) In a 2017 Facebook comment from his personal Facebook profile, Talbert said, Mohammed sucks cocks in hell.
Talbert has also been a supporter of the Proud Boys, which has a documented history of inciting violence, for which some of its members have been criminally charged. He has noted that the Proud Boys have offered protection to members of Deplorable Pride during his groups public events. The Southern Poverty Law Center has deemed the Proud Boys a hate group, a label the Proud Boys reject. When the SPLC issued that designation in 2018, Talbert rejected it, too, criticizing the SPLC label and defending the group. Our LBGT organization, Deplorable Pride, will always be an ally to the Proud Boys, he said to Big League Politics at the time. In a separate post on March 12, 2018, the Deplorable Pride Facebook account declared, Our support for the Proud Boys stands just as strong now as it did the first day we met them. They are our MAGA brothers.
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Way to go, NC, for electing anti-transgender "bathroom bill" author & Proud Boys bud Dan Bishop. (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Sep 2019
OP
It's a Trump district through and through and they still only barely pulled it out.
budkin
Sep 2019
#1
It's disgusting to see that Trump can still parachute into a district and pull a candidate over the
StarfishSaver
Sep 2019
#13
North Carolina GOP used a lottery machine for redistricting after court demanded new maps
Miles Archer
Sep 2019
#14
The GOP spent $6.4 million on what should have been a cakewalk in a red district
Miles Archer
Sep 2019
#19
budkin
(6,691 posts)1. It's a Trump district through and through and they still only barely pulled it out.
Portends good things for next year tbh
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)5. That's the saving grace, it was pretty damned close for "Trump Country."
I live in SC, but it's where I hang my hat, and that's about it.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)13. It's disgusting to see that Trump can still parachute into a district and pull a candidate over the
finish line.
His appearance last night probably got Bishop just the extra votes he needed to squeak this one out.
bluestarone
(16,722 posts)2. This only til 2020?
This seat come up again in 2020??
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)6. Yep.
Kornacki said rural voters out performed in voting today. That usually means older, white people. Racism's a strong motivator for them , apparently.
a kennedy
(29,467 posts)10. and let me just hurl right now.......
fat, old, white tRump supporters.
bearsfootball516
(6,369 posts)7. Yes, it was a special election for a congressional seat
And congressional seats are up every two years.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,306 posts)3. He makes me seriously sick and the results likewise.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)4. Chickens for Colonel Sanders.
Talbert sounds like a real self-loathing douche.
Beaverhausen
(24,467 posts)8. Trump won the district by 12 points
There is some good news, right?
Joe941
(2,848 posts)17. Yup this is extremely good news for us.
Initech
(99,915 posts)9. Fucking gross. Thanks MAGAts
Amaryllis
(9,523 posts)11. How clean are NC elections? Just sayin.
bluestarone
(16,722 posts)12. yea my thoughts too
Will we ever know? I doubt it.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)14. North Carolina GOP used a lottery machine for redistricting after court demanded new maps
North Carolina GOP used a lottery machine for redistricting after court demanded new maps
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/watch-north-carolina-gop-used-a-lottery-machine-for-redistricting-after-court-demanded-new-maps/
North Carolina Republicans used a lottery machine to redraw district lines on Tuesday.
On September 3, a judge struck down the states gerrymandered district maps and give the General Assembly two weeks to draw new lines.
Allison Riggs, a voting rights attorney for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, posted a video on Twitter showing how the GOP was going about the task of redistricting.
So this just happened. The Senate Redistricting Committee just brought in freaking lottery officials to randomly draw a map to satisfy their duty to remedy constitutional violations in the map they drew in 2017, Riggs said.
She added hashtags saying that was not the legal standard and democracy dies in NC.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/watch-north-carolina-gop-used-a-lottery-machine-for-redistricting-after-court-demanded-new-maps/
North Carolina Republicans used a lottery machine to redraw district lines on Tuesday.
On September 3, a judge struck down the states gerrymandered district maps and give the General Assembly two weeks to draw new lines.
Allison Riggs, a voting rights attorney for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, posted a video on Twitter showing how the GOP was going about the task of redistricting.
So this just happened. The Senate Redistricting Committee just brought in freaking lottery officials to randomly draw a map to satisfy their duty to remedy constitutional violations in the map they drew in 2017, Riggs said.
She added hashtags saying that was not the legal standard and democracy dies in NC.
Link to tweet
Joe941
(2,848 posts)15. Did russia conduct this election?
rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)16. Democrats let it go. Didn't fight for it
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)18. GOP has a 14 point advantage in the gerrymandered district
Rightwinger Bishop won by 2 points
Turnout was 37%
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)19. The GOP spent $6.4 million on what should have been a cakewalk in a red district
Don, what gives is what always gives in the races. Money matters, GOP strategist Rick Wilson replied.
There were 10.7 million dollars spent in the race. About 6.4 million was Republican spending, a the amount of money you used to spend in the U.S. Senate race on one House district, in one state, in a relatively affordable media market, he explained.
They bought this race out of desperation, but you cant scale that, he continued. You cant replicate that across district after district in the country. We have outspent the Democratic side of the equation two-to-one in this thing. Those six-plus million dollars made a big difference.
This should have been something they could have stayed home and eaten bonbons and watched sports on TV. They didnt and the reason is the suburbs particularly outside Charlotte are starting to weaken for Republican elected officials, Wilson added.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/rick-wilson-says-gop-victory-in-north-carolina-special-election-is-actually-terrible-news-for-republicans/
There were 10.7 million dollars spent in the race. About 6.4 million was Republican spending, a the amount of money you used to spend in the U.S. Senate race on one House district, in one state, in a relatively affordable media market, he explained.
They bought this race out of desperation, but you cant scale that, he continued. You cant replicate that across district after district in the country. We have outspent the Democratic side of the equation two-to-one in this thing. Those six-plus million dollars made a big difference.
This should have been something they could have stayed home and eaten bonbons and watched sports on TV. They didnt and the reason is the suburbs particularly outside Charlotte are starting to weaken for Republican elected officials, Wilson added.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/09/rick-wilson-says-gop-victory-in-north-carolina-special-election-is-actually-terrible-news-for-republicans/