'The original sin begins with us': 'Fire Pelosi' leader decries right-wing's 'toxic' rhetoric after

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https://www.alternet.org/2022/11/people-keep-getting-hurt-former-rnc-communications-director-decries-toxic-rhetoric-after-pelosi/

'The original sin begins with us': 'Fire Pelosi' leader decries right-wing’s 'toxic' rhetoric after assault

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But one Republican who is speaking out is Doug Heye, former communications director for the Republican National Committee (RNC).

In an op-ed published by the Washington Post on Halloween Day, Heye argues that the “ugly tweets and jokes from some Republicans about the attack on Pelosi’s husband, Paul” have gone way too far. And this is coming from someone who was part of the “Fire Pelosi” campaign during the 2010 midterms, which found Republicans enjoying a major red wave and retaking the U.S. House of Representatives — a political event that then-President Barack Obama famously described as a “shellacking.”

“More and more in our politics, the loudest, angriest, most divisive voices get the most attention and money,” Heye observes. “Real solutions, and the politicians who put their heads down to do hard work, get short shrift. Collectively, we have to lower the temperature. People keep getting hurt. We’re very lucky no one has been killed — and I worry I need to emphasize ‘yet.’”

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[Tom Rinaldo]

1. Good to see, but we need a thousand fold more of this

Still, credit where credit is due, he at least is speaking up

[Walleye]

2. "Politicians who put their heads down to do the hard work", perfect description of Joe Biden

[Deep State Witch]

3. Where's Michael Steele?

Why hasn't he come out and admitted that he was the public face of the RNC at the time? It happened on his watch.