SC Democrats call on their party's US Senate nominee to quit
Source: Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) The South Carolina Democrat vying to oust Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott is facing calls from within her own party to fold her campaign, following the publication of additional leaked audio in which she appears to make disparaging remarks about her constituents.
The calls for state Rep. Krystle Matthews to withdraw just two months ahead of the general election came Thursday in reaction to leaked audio published by conservative activist group Project Veritas of Matthews speaking to one of its members, without her knowledge.
Sitting in a restaurant, Matthews, who is Black, is heard saying that she represents a mostly white district, adding, of white voters: I keep them right here like under my thumbs. ... Otherwise, they get out of control like kids.
You ought to know who youre dealing with, Matthews goes on to say. Youve got to treat them like s-. Thats the only way theyll respect you.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-campaigns-south-carolina-general-tim-scott-968b58c3a799215444e596d92eb8cf7d
Demovictory9
(32,445 posts)Ocelot II
(115,669 posts)Warpy
(111,241 posts)I hate to play "shoot the messenger," but this messenger should have been bumped off years ago.
She needs to turn the recording over to the FBI. If it has been subjected to selective editing, they can turn it up.
And that's when she sues the hell out of those assholes.
ETA: I'm sick to death of the Democratic circular firing squad on the basis of iffy information. Get this recording a forensic examination and proceed from there.
mountain grammy
(26,614 posts)Zeitghost
(3,856 posts)Do an analysis on it for her?
Farmer-Rick
(10,154 posts)Last edited Sat Sep 10, 2022, 10:55 AM - Edit history (1)
There are sooooooo many ways this could have been faked.
She must be scaring the crap out of Scott for him to call in the scammers at large.
Now, she needs to come out hard and deny their lies and manipulations. Ride the news cycle to get her name out there. Just Another innocent victim of project veritas.
People like strong people who stand up to scammers and cons.
madville
(7,408 posts)By 30-35%. No one has even done any polling in SC its so lopsided.
Farmer-Rick
(10,154 posts)Damn you spell check.
But if they have no polling, how can they project who is winning? And why call out the big scammers to smear her?
Maybe they were just testing their dirty tricks.
madville
(7,408 posts)Its not a competitive race.
LoisB
(7,199 posts)brush
(53,764 posts)Have to be careful who you grant interviews to.
Cha
(297,126 posts)rest of the thread does NOT Trust or Believe "Project Veritas".
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142966869#post24
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)But Democrats obviously have a conscience.
No big deal. It's not like we had a real chance in Deep Red SC.
CousinIT
(9,239 posts)to make it sound like people said things they did NOT say.
NOPE. Not buying it.
DinahMoeHum
(21,783 posts)n/t
quakerboy
(13,919 posts)In the age of deep fakes, and in light of their having receeded back into obscurity, I would believe they would do literally anything to try and get back in the limelight or harm the people they are paid to harm.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)Samrob
(4,298 posts)in other ways. Do SC Dems have a new candidate who can run. No should run without a challenger.
wnylib
(21,425 posts)I would suggest anything to the candidate.
Project Veritas has no credibility.
raging moderate
(4,297 posts)It seems as though it may have been taken out of context. Although I would not approve of that attitude to employees, either. But it could also have been an awkward attempt at satire.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,338 posts)and maybe her district could find some other candidate for 2024.
If Project Veritas has her words recorded, it would indicate she's disrespectful of some group. Whether it's constituents, employees, colleagues, that may be less clear. Disrespect on that scale toward any group should be a disqualifier.
If true.
Paladin
(28,252 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)AZ8theist
(5,453 posts)That O'Keef and Veritas are legit?
They are Reich Wing Repuke RAT FUCKERS.
ANYTHING coming from them is BULLSHIT.
The fact people on here believe this garbage is UNBELEIVABLE.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,338 posts)... do they have a recording of her saying those words? In any context?
AZ8theist
(5,453 posts)you can rest assured they would cut and paste and splice and edit and manipulate the words to convey THE EXACT OPPOSITE of what was actually said.
O'Keff is a motherfucking scumbag asshole who needs to spend the rest of his putrid existence in prison.
A bigger liar you cannot find. (well, besides Doturd, that is.....)
BasicallyComplicated
(60 posts)Double down on anything controversial, blame your opponent and ride the media coverage! Have we learned NOTHING! No stepping down or backing out! Its too important. We have show up. Just conceding races on principle is stupid and WEAK!!!
brooklynite
(94,495 posts)Happy to get rid of her.
Farmer-Rick
(10,154 posts)Nothing from them is honest or real. It's all faked and manipulated.
For all we know she was talking about white criminals or they took words and pasted them into a normal sounding conversation. Project veritas is a scam and all BS.
DO NOT TRUST them ever.
mountain grammy
(26,614 posts)kind of like Al Franken right? Were you happy to "get rid" of him? Do you have any idea the courage it takes these days to run as a Democrat in the South?
But by all means, let's "get rid" of anyone the right takes on?
brooklynite
(94,495 posts)A good candidate knows how to deal with hecklers, and knows how to stick to her message. She apparently does not.
mountain grammy
(26,614 posts)and Project Veritas does not..
That's the only issue here. Tim Scott is an awful Senator, just awful. He shouldn't run unopposed.
brooklynite
(94,495 posts)mountain grammy
(26,614 posts)No replacement. In fact her name will be on the ballot even if she drops out.
DFW
(54,338 posts)It sounds like this "Project Veritas" has about as much "veritas" as Fox "News" has news. I.e. none.
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)NO one but the almighty is pure IMO. Check that, the GQP US Taliban who wants to force women/little girls to have their rapists babies" Party is pure as the driven snow. Really
And good Lord, Look at Donald treasonous, racist, sexist, pussy-grabbing tRump. He's still walking around free as a bird, lying, pushing the big lie, eating, flushing and stealing sensitive docs by the box-load, and trying to start another civil insurrection and get his militia to shoot blacks, non-whites, gays et al, and even if a Dem did say a wrong thing like this woman did, so what? Look at tRump and a whole long line of folks that are non-black who get away with murder literally. tRump literally sold the country OUT and you have his insane, racist MAGGOTS still defending his ass. I mean. You know, he more than likely sold this country out for "chicken change" as that lyric goes in the James Brown's "big payback." Matt Gaetz is still a predator, pervert probably got agents in the field killed, because we really don't know what that pig was doing when he first stole the presidency in 2016. Matt Gaetz is probably still dating underage girls, and he's chillaxing in the congress and talking smack about "WOKE" Dems/liberals and look at what he's probably gotten away with. But Dems must be polite, perfect little angels all the damn time. I had--and I said had a friend because she lives in la la land, and she told me that Biden was wrong to call out MAGA, because that rhetoric makes him just as evil and hateful as tRump And yes, this ex-friend was white, and called herself a Dem. Could have fooled me. But, I have white friends who'd have told her off in a hot minute if they'd have her her talking the shit she was talking to me on the phone last week. WHEN the hell did Pres. Biden call or a US civil insurrection or call for a Dem Militia to go to the US Capitols to subvert elections? When did he call for a Dem militia to destroy our democracy, and try to turn this country back into what it was in the 1800's? A place where blacks were burned alive right after church services or were lynched while pregnant or flat out just plain murdered. I guess my ex-friend probably thought that Derek Chauvin 'accidentally' murdered George Floyd like Brett Farve was basically saying. Blacks have NO cheeks left TO turn.
It's rumored that Michelle Obama now has misgivings about saying that when they (GQP'ers) go low, we go high. IF true, she really needn't have said that, because my other friend told me that the woman who called Michelle an ape in heels never apologized to her, and told me that the white woman who said that this country is too sensitive. Happy that fat Petunia-looking, racist pig lost her job--that racist pos. I agree with former attorney general Holder who said that when the GQP US Taliban party goes low, kick 'em. We may never know the extent of what fatass45 did to this country, because he's done SO much. Most in the GQP are hanging right in there mostly with him though, still. Greene and her racist, anti-semetic, treasonous ass taking about Jewish space lasers. But I guess it's okay for her to be anti-Semetic. Good Lord I've lost 10 friends--white and black--since tReasonous tRump stole the presidency 2016. Didn't know that they were that damn weak.
As for this piece of racist, lying filth Project Veritas:
Pair pleads guilty to stealing Ashley Biden's diary, selling it to Project Veritas.
Two Florida residents have pleaded guilty to stealing the diary of Ashley Biden, President Joe Biden's youngest daughter, and then selling it to right-wing activist group Project Veritas, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
Aimee Harris, 40, and Robert Kurlander, 58, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit interstate transportation of stolen property involving the theft of personal belongings of an immediate family member of a then-former government official for taking several items belonging to Ashley Biden in September 2020. The charge carries a maximum of five years in prison.
Kurlander has also agreed to cooperate with the government.
Though Ashley Biden, 41, is not named in the court documents, a source familiar with the case confirmed they were her belongings.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pair-plead-guilty-stealing-ashley-bidens-diary-selling/story?id=88849834
Sting Video Purports To Show Democrats Describing How To Commit Voter Fraud.
As Donald Trump warns about the prospect of a "rigged" presidential election, he's getting some help from a conservative activist group.
Project Veritas, which has carried out several damaging video sting operations, has posted videos in recent days purporting to show Democratic operatives bragging about inciting violence at Trump's campaign events, and appearing to detail how they could bus out-of-state supporters in to commit voter fraud.
Dark Talk Of A Rigged Election Signals New Emphasis For Trump Campaign
POLITICS
Dark Talk Of A Rigged Election Signals New Emphasis For Trump Campaign
"Once again Donald Trump was ahead of his times," campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told Fox News on Tuesday night. "He's been talking about this for the last couple days."
https://www.npr.org/2016/10/19/498587397/sting-video-purports-to-show-democrats-describing-how-to-commit-voter-fraud
867-5309.
(1,189 posts)Which tells me she wasn't winning anyway?
madville
(7,408 posts)There hasnt even been any polling done in SC for this race because its so lopsided.
quaint
(2,561 posts)From OP's link:
Should be a rule: No joking in restaurants.
demmiblue
(36,838 posts)In response to the leak, Matthews stood by what she said.
Arent you tired of politicians selling out our communities, spitting on our working families, and exploiting the rights of our women and children? While taking community pictures and kissing our babies, our favorite legislators wash their hands and sweep what our community needs under the rug. What would you call that? I call that SH**, and my mother raised me to treat something exactly how it is! So when I stated to that undercover journalist Chris Williams in that satirical MAGA Powered news outlet Project Veritas, to treat these MAGA Republicans like SH**. I SAID WHAT I SAID! Play the whole tape PROJECT VERITAS, so the people will know who I was referring to. Regardless of race, I love everyone. One thing you can learn from Project Veritas first audio attack on me is obviously, I have no biases towards a certain ethnic group. I expressed my disgust for Black legislators who exhibit the same hypocrisy as MAGA Republicans. This is why I am challenging MAGAs favorite Black legislator, Tim Scott. Understand I never proposed to be an orthodox candidate. Im a community advocate who the people favored enough to have me take the seat of a Republican incumbent. Through that same favor, I plan to do the same thing with the United States Senate seat currently held by Republican incumbent Tim Scott. Unfortunately, serving in the statehouse has given me a direct view of the treachery a lot of the legislators I previously had respect for are indulging in. One thing I regret and apologize for from the private audio call was allowing myself to get out of character and make someone feel Im okay with accepting funding from toxins that have poisoned the very communities I serve. My objective was to let him know in this fight we need everyones vote, including the Duffel bag boys to win the election, and obviously went off script! Make no mistake when I said we have to fight certain fires with fire, engage with marginalized communities and send sleepers to infiltrate the Republican Party and tear their house down. Ive been doing that effectively as you will see in November. I SAID WHAT I SAID RESPECTFULLY.
https://www.live5news.com/2022/09/08/lowcountry-rep-reacts-leaked-audio-i-said-what-i-said/
Apparently, this is not the first leaked audio (I haven't listened to the previous one... I have no idea what it is all about or who put it out there)
AZ8theist
(5,453 posts)Instead of what James O'Keef and Project Veritas said!!
After all, O'Keef and Veritas are upstanding, HONEST AMERICAN PATRIOTS!!
O'Keef and his Anti-American, racist, scumbag organization BELONG IN FUCKING PRISON.
RAT.
FUCKING.
SCUMBAGS.
PERIOD.
kwolf68
(7,365 posts)But I like her.
brush
(53,764 posts)what really happened and what was really said out.
pfitz59
(10,349 posts)without getting the full story. Anything put out by 'Project Veritas' should be considered a lie.
JI7
(89,246 posts)in fact becsuse of the source I will assume this is fake unless proven otherwise.
brooklynite
(94,495 posts)JI7
(89,246 posts)they didn't confirm the recording is accurate.
CockyJ
(3 posts)I live in SC and can confirm that the voice recording and the video recording are true and not changed nor taken out of context. Matthews, herself, has confirmed this and has doubled down and said she stands by what she said. She already had zero chance to win but now I'm concerned that she could hurt our other Democrat candidates.She needs to apologize and drop out immediately.
llashram
(6,265 posts)Last edited Tue Sep 13, 2022, 02:02 PM - Edit history (1)
oh no. And the poster has done nothing wrong. To me, this nominee is on a power trip. Representation, not oppression.