GOP Senate candidate from South Texas slammed for racial slur

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Houston Chronicle

GOP Senate candidate from South Texas slammed for racial slur
By Kolten Parker | February 21, 2014 | Updated: February 21, 2014 12:33pm



SAN ANTONIO — Forget Ted Nugent, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate thinks “wetbacks” should be shot by ranchers and that the president is a “socialist son of a bitch.”
Chris Mapp, 53, a South Texas businessman used the slurs at an editorial board meeting with The Dallas Morning News last week. Needless to say, he didn't get their endorsement.

“That is way out of bounds and I can't imagine many people in Texas, much less Texas Republicans, voting for that guy,” said Robert Stovall, the chairman of the Bexar County Republican Party. “His views are in no way a reflection of the Republican Party nationally, statewide or in Bexar County.”

An email to Mapp, who is based in Port O'Connor, went unanswered and his website does not have a campaign phone number.

“The condoning of violence and lack of respect for the Office of President or even for human dignity is appalling,” said Joe Deshotel, the communications director for the Travis County Democratic Party. “The fact that second-tier candidates like Mapp are using language like this is directly reflective of how far to the Right the Republican Party has gone.”


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[giftedgirl77]

1. Wow, I'm impressed to see their are still some Repubs

out there with some sanity. Especially when it comes to derogatory language towards the president & stupid racial slurs. There was a time when this type of language would have been quickly shot down anywhere, now it seems acceptable for many.

[Fred Sanders]

4. The thing is the truly insane ones like Nugent et. al ARE the Republican Party, so how are they

going to distance themselves from themselves?
The only solution is for the old guard Republican party, radical as it has become, to cut off the crazy wing and tell them to form their own party and stop trying to graft themselves to the Republican party.

[giftedgirl77]

5. At this point I'm pretty sure they are going to just eat

each other alive. There is no hope for the republican party they must die a firey death.

[Stellar]

13. Too funny!!!

[jsr]

2. Certifiable idiot. South Texas is 81 percent Hispanic.

[neeksgeek]

19. I guess he wants to change that. n/t

[Cali_Democrat]

3. This is just part of the Republican outreach efforts to Hispanics. nt

[Gman]

6. As a side note, this guy is from Port O'Connor

and Port O'Connor is in Ron Paul's old district.

[bullwinkle428]

7. "His views are in no way a reflection of the Republican Party"

That's the problem - they actually ARE a reflection!

[hibbing]

11. Exactly

Ever since the candidacy of President Obama and McCain and the idiot from Alaska it has been free reign for these types of comments. What a sad state of affairs, instead of becoming less open and more subtle, it has just become more out there and more blunt. I'm really surprised some just haven't gone ahead and used the n word in public yet.

Peace

[maindawg]

16. this goes way back

To the 'southern strategy'. To Reagons race baiting bullshit. This is just the latest faze. Its gotten downright ugly. They seem to have to push the envelope a little more each year in order to motivate the base.The base is growing smaller and meaner.Its sad, I know a few of them and they are outright ignorant and intolerable any more.
Rush taught them to bully, now they are no longer civilized.

[awoke_in_2003]

12. yep...

he just dared to say it out loud.

[Leith]

15. They Won't Defend Him or Make Excuses

because he's not in the inner inner circle. Under the bus he goes.

[tclambert]

8. He must have missed that sensitivity training the GOP held to teach them how to reach out to

minorities and women and other such unfortunates.

[jmondine]

9. "Out of bounds", eh?

Does that mean that milder forms of bigotry are within bounds?

[nomorenomore08]

10. Of course. "Milder forms of bigotry" is what the entire contemporary GOP runs off of.

They realized they couldn't be so blatantly and openly racist in the post-Civil Rights era, hence the use of more subtle racism, like in the Willie Horton ad (to name one example of thousands).

[Bette Noir]

14. Keep it coming. TX will soon be bright blue.

How many Latinos will vote for the party he calls home?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. Currnet excuse: He HAS to do this...

Otherwise he will be seen as the Obama's pet RINO.

[Doctor Loveless]

18. Really

He sounds just like your typical Republican to me.

[summerintx]

20. Rumblings of Change in the GOP in Texas?

Rick Perry and several other Republicans castigated Ted Nugent's description of the president as a 'subhuman mongrel.' In the past they would have probably glossed over it and left it unchallenged. He wouldn't have backed down and apologized if they hadn't done so.

Then there's the quick condemnation of a Republican candidate by a Republican county party chairman (above).

In my town, the local GOP recently split into two groups. The new group is "done" with tea party Republicans, at least according to one of the members of that group. They seem to be trying to encourage Dems to cross over and vote in their primary to help them knock out a Tea Party Republican state senator too. Several members of that group asked me to encourage Dems to do so (I'm a past Dem club chair).

This seems to have been triggered by the government shutdown.

I hope it's the beginning of a trend!

[rafeh1]

21. hope repigs split

into the racks of the tea party and Eisenhower republicans
cuz we do need an opposition but not a crazy opposition