More GOP Family Values: "GOP maneuver halts effort to oust Arizona Rep. David Stringer"

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By Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services Jan 29, 2019 Updated 24 min ago

PHOENIX — House Republicans sidelined a bid Monday to oust Rep. David Stringer, preferring instead to give the Prescott Republican a chance to explain his 1980s arrest and comments about race and immigration to the House Ethics Committee.

In seeking his removal, Rep. Reginald Bolding, D-Laveen, cited widely reported comments by Stringer last year, like African-Americans “don’t blend in” and there aren’t “enough white kids to go around” to allow for integrated classes.

“Those words are hurtful,” Bolding said.

But what appears to have spurred the talk of removing Stringer, versus just a censure, were criminal records from Maryland, unearthed by New Times, that showed he had been arrested there in the 1980s on multiple charges, including child pornography.

Stringer refused to discuss the issue with Capitol Media Services other than to say there was no criminal conviction, apparently due to a plea deal that allowed the arrests and guilty pleas to be expunged from the record after he completed probation.

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https://tucson.com/news/local/effort-to-oust-rep-stringer-over-comments-arrest-record-halted/article_f2d327b0-b208-5676-98d3-708e0ecfb648.html

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He sounds vile even without the child porn charges. So very typical. So very tiresome.

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1. but but but ---

he votes Republican!

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2. To be clear: this is the AZ State House.

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4. That's what the article said.

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3. What a bunch of fair-minded folks those Republicans are

Yes, let's give David Stringer a chance to explain his racist remarks and his arrest on child pornography charges. So very even-handed and open-minded of Arizona's House Republican caucus. Let's not rush to judgment here. There could be a perfectly reasonable explanation for all this. We don't want to subvert the will of the voters who elected Stringer without any of this information available to them.