Former Marine Resigns as July 4 Parade Grand Marshal After Right-Wing Texas Radio Host Targeted Her

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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A former Marine and pro soccer player has pulled out of grand marshal duties for a July 4 parade in Friendswood, Texas, after a conservative Houston radio-show host targeted her online with a Twitter post featuring a photo of her son.

Haley Carter and her family received physical threats of violence as the apparent result of Jesse Kelly’s tweet, according to a statement by the suburban Houston city. The tweet falsely suggested Carter was a Communist, criticized her advocacy against gun violence and referred to Friendswood as a conservative “blood red city.”

“She’s a gun-grabber. She’s into drag. She’s into trans activism,” the tweet read from Kelly, who is a periodic guest on Tucker Carlson’s primetime Fox News show and hosts a nationally syndicated radio program. The tweet also featured a photo of Carter’s son, screengrabbed from a social media post.

“This year’s selected Grand Marshal, Haley Carter, has voluntarily stepped down after receiving threats of harm to herself and her family and will not be participating in any of the Fourth of July activities,” the Friendswood Parks and Recreation Department said in a statement Thursday. “There will be no replacement Grand Marshal.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/former-marine-steps-down-july-013753093.html

[HariSeldon]

1. There shouldn't be a damn parade

I see little enough to celebrate about this country this summer, but if the community won't stand behind a military veteran who was selected as the grand marshal of the parade, why should there be a parade? To celebrate the depravity of some and the self-serving, abetting ignorance of the rest?

[SunSeeker]

2. Sickening. Jesse Kelly basically committed stochastic terrorism.

We should be putting people who make death threats in jail.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

12. Yes we should

Yet it feels like the next one who gets arrested will be the first.

Stochastic terrorism... The "new normal" from the "new right."

[czarjak]

3. Mission Accomplished?

[mn9driver]

4. The city should cancel ALL July 4th activities.

Fuck these shit for brains bullies.

[sakabatou]

5. Has Haley filed a lawsuit, at the very least, for slander/libel?

[bahboo]

6. my thought as well...

burn this fucker to the ground...

[onecaliberal]

7. Cancel the fucking parade and arrest the people making threats. WHERE ARE THE CONSEQUENCES?

[The Unmitigated Gall]

8. Military service means nothing to these scum...

Unless you buy into their pathetic cult.

[dalton99a]

9. "Failed congressional hopeful, former RV salesman and conservative talk show host Jesse Kelly"

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/haley-carter-july-4-parade-threats-jesse-kelly-17261619.php
Former Marine steps down as July 4 parade grand marshal of Texas town after threats of violence
A Houston conservative talk show host who started the deluge of taunts celebrated the threats against the woman's family on Twitter.
Jay R. Jordan
June 23, 2022

A former Marine slated to lead Friendswood's Fourth of July parade backed out Thursday after a coordinated campaign to remove her as grand marshal led to threats of violence against her and her family, the city's parks department announced.

Haley Carter, who also chairs Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner's Commission Against Gun Violence, "voluntarily stepped down," she said, after failed congressional hopeful, former RV salesman and conservative talk show host Jesse Kelly sicced his hundreds of thousands of Twitter followers on her and her family Wednesday. Kelly said he took exception to Carter's political views and even posted a photo of her child in an effort to intimidate Friendswood officials into canceling her inclusion in the parade.

After the city announced Carter was receiving threats of violence, Kelly celebrated, saying "UPDATE: She's gone" and declaring his actions as part of "The New Right," described by Vanity Fair's James Pogue as "a project to overthrow the thrust of progress, at least such as liberals understand the word." In Kelly's plea to his followers, he lamented that Carter was "into trans activism" and pointed out that she took her excited son to a drag show in Las Vegas to see his "favorite Queen."

[IngridsLittleAngel]

13. I think I've seen this MFer's picture in the dictionary

Next to "Fucking Nazi Asshole."

And no, Thug Kelly... A "family man" would not terrorize a mom and her kid the way you did.

"Military Wokeness..." Yep. More of that "respect our troops/veterans" shit from sickos who love them when they're protecting "their" America, but hate them the realize they protected "those fucking others" too.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

10. Targeting people's children should be illegal.

Even the Mob didn't go there.

Spotlighting someone's children is dispicable. If you are in his broadcast area, call his employer and tell them what you think of this outrageous use of their airwaves.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

11. Another QOP thug practicing stochastic terrorism

Let's get an innocent woman bullied and harassed and threatened for the crime of not being a good lil' fascist, or conforming to their narrow-minded beliefs on what people should be like in "the freest country ever!"

Amazing once again how their two-faced phony hypocrisy comes to the surface for the world to see...

"Respect the troops/veterans!" Except for those who actually lean to the left, believe in human rights, and served to protect ALL Americans - not just extreme-right Nazi scum like Jesse Kelly.

"Won't someone think of the children?!!" While dragging Haley Carter's son into this, when he has nothing to do with this, and all you've done with your big blabbermouth is cause him misery and risk his safety.

So we can count on Domestic Terrorist Kelly to be arrested anytime now for inciting violence, right?