Texas Senator Bob Hall Defends 'White Nationalist' Ally as Victim of Political Correctness
Kaufman County tea party insurgent Ray Myers long had a reputation for extremist views, off-the-cuff bigotry and an in-your-face style of activism. But recent Facebook posts declaring himself to be a “white nationalist” and calling for a “rope and a tree” for a black female elected official in Florida {Dr. Brenda Snipes} were beyond the pale even for him.
After his comments drew national attention, leaders within the Texas GOP scrambled to distance themselves from Myers, a connected member of the far-right firmament who served on the platform committee at the state party’s 2018 convention. But not state Senator Bob Hall, a fellow tea party activist from East Texas. He chose to lean in.
The day after the Observer broke the story about Myers’ “white nationalist” comments, Hall showed up in a photo on Myers’ Facebook page enjoying a meal at Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C., with other Kaufman County activists.
The Observer reached out to Hall for comment. Five days later, his chief of staff emailed several paragraphs of responses to a number of our questions. Hall asserted that Myers was merely the victim of the P.C. police. “Those who sit on a self-appointed seat of judgment where they view others through the faulty prism of perverted extreme political correctness, rather than the clear glass of honesty, will always see the ugly they seek to see rather than the truth,” Hall wrote.
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