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DonViejo

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Thu Feb 20, 2014, 09:41 PM Feb 2014

Steve King: 'Objectively True' That Many DREAMers Are Drug Mules

SAHIL KAPUR – FEBRUARY 20, 2014, 6:55 PM EST

Rep. Steve King (R-IA), a leading crusader against immigration reform, stood by his notorious comments last year likening so-called DREAMers to drug mules.

"So I'm not going to apologize. What I've said is objectively true. And any time that Republicans have criticized me, it's not because of what I said, it's because they disagree with my agenda," King told the local Spencer Daily Reporter in an interview reported Friday by the liberal Right Wing Watch and picked up by Roll Call. "That's really the answer."

"When they start calling names, they've lost the debate," he said.

Last July, King said that for ever DREAMer (the term for people brought to the U.S. illegally as children) "who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert."

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Steve King: 'Objectively True' That Many DREAMers Are Drug Mules (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2014 OP
Since Steve is talking about body parts, Steve has a penis the size of a ladybug. muntrv Feb 2014 #1
Brain and heart... 3catwoman3 Feb 2014 #4
Skittles: 'Objectively True' That Many TEABAGGers are Racist Assholes Skittles Feb 2014 #2
So true, you can see it from outer space. JoePhilly Feb 2014 #3
It is "objectively true" that Steve King is a certified A-hole. yellowcanine Feb 2014 #5
I hope Bill Maher picks this nut for his 'Flip a District' project hauckeye Feb 2014 #6
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