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RandySF

(58,911 posts)
Thu May 21, 2020, 02:46 PM May 2020

CA-10: GOP pulls support from California House candidate over 'unacceptable' social media posts

Republicans are pulling their support from a California House candidate after a report revealed a litany of social media posts on his personal account in recent years, including posts that accused prominent Democrats of murder and demeaned Muslims.

Ted Howze, who is running against vulnerable freshman Rep. Josh Harder (D) in California’s 10th Congressional District, was removed from the National Republican Congressional Committee’s “Young Guns” website that promotes challengers to Democratic incumbents and was renounced by the NRCC.

“These statements are unacceptable and not indicative of the Republican Party and what we are building here at the NRCC with our diverse slate of candidates. We have pulled our support,” Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), the NRCC chair, said in a statement.

Howze was also rebuked by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who had endorsed him earlier in the cycle.




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CA-10: GOP pulls support from California House candidate over 'unacceptable' social media posts (Original Post) RandySF May 2020 OP
I'm confused, normally with the GOP that would guarantee the job. sunonmars May 2020 #1
Probably because it is California, other states you are probably correct still_one May 2020 #4
Yup -- it's a potential swing with a Democratic incumbent. Hortensis May 2020 #10
Au contraire ibegurpard May 2020 #2
Agreed. I think the rebuke was only because this guy had been too brazen and open about his alwaysinasnit May 2020 #8
I'm surprised he wasn't raptured into trump's cabinet. spanone May 2020 #3
IQ45 is looking into it......... MyOwnPeace May 2020 #5
⚡️👍🏼 spanone May 2020 #7
must be something else there.. stillcool May 2020 #6
Ca-10 is a very purple district and freshman Josh Harder beat asshole Jeff Denham in a squeaker race Brother Buzz May 2020 #9
Go, Josh Harder! This creep apparently deleted a lot of posts, Hortensis May 2020 #11
Hell! He checked every box! 11 Bravo May 2020 #12

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
10. Yup -- it's a potential swing with a Democratic incumbent.
Thu May 21, 2020, 04:11 PM
May 2020

A great guy with all the right stuff for them -- until it got leaked to the public.

MyOwnPeace

(16,928 posts)
5. IQ45 is looking into it.........
Thu May 21, 2020, 02:53 PM
May 2020

"You know there's good people on both sides of the party..............."

Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)
9. Ca-10 is a very purple district and freshman Josh Harder beat asshole Jeff Denham in a squeaker race
Thu May 21, 2020, 03:47 PM
May 2020

This is good news, and give me hope that we will retain the seat.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
11. Go, Josh Harder! This creep apparently deleted a lot of posts,
Thu May 21, 2020, 04:19 PM
May 2020

but these are among ones some good citizen(s) (Politico or to Politico?) provided for this district's voters to consider. Some were deleted and uncovered, others were displayed proudly (and strangely invisible to the Republican leadership) on his Facebook page.

Modesto Bee: “European leaders are willfully ceding their continent to religious extremists following the teachings of their Pedophile Prophet Mohamed ... ,” states one Facebook post referencing Muslims and the need for the United States to separate itself from Europe.

Responding to a tweet from U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, calling for Trump’s impeachment, with “How do we impeach say a Southern California Congresswoman who’s been hitting the crack pipe too hard?”

A retweet disparaging Palestinian-American organizer Linda Sarsour, saying if is she is the average Muslim woman than “I finally understand why so many Muslim men would rather copulate with a goat!”

Politico: One post described the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a rapist and a pedophile. Another mocked a survivor of the Parkland high school shooting. ... Others described Islam as “a death cult” and suggested Hillary Clinton and her 2016 campaign chairman, John Podesta, were responsible for the murder of Seth Rich, ...

Other posts called on all DACA recipients to be deported. “#DeportThemAll,” ... other posts that remained up on his personal Facebook account were equally as offensive (as those he deleted), and ranged from linking DACA recipients to pedophiles to describing Black Lives Matter activists as “political slaves.”

... Howze accused the Clintons of leaving “a trail of bodies as long as the Mississippi River behind them.” He compared recipients of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to pedophiles: “Surely they understand that pedophiles are ‘dreamers’ too.”

But Howze seems to have a particular love for Islamophobia. Here’s one example of what he felt free to share on his Facebook page: On June 16, 2016, he shared a meme of a gun salesman addressing an unseen customer. The text overlaying the photo suggested breaking an Islamic dietary law should be a litmus test for purchasing it: “Yes sir, your background check came back fine. But I gotta see you eat some bacon or its no sale!”

And another, in which he speculated about Barack Obama being Muslim: ... he speculated on why Obama was admitting more “muslim ‘refugees’”: “Could it be because Obama’s father is Muslim? Or that his step father Lolo Soetoro is Muslim? Could it be that during his time living in Indonesia, which doesn’t allow dual citizenships, that Obama’s school records identify him as Barry Soetoro, an Indonesian citizen of Muslim faith!”

And in a particularly egregious example, he posted “a question of the day,” which was, “Can a Muslim ever truly be a good American citizen?” His answer, unsurprisingly for such a committed bigot, was no.

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)
12. Hell! He checked every box!
Thu May 21, 2020, 05:48 PM
May 2020

And now they want to pretend that he's an outlier?

Fuck Republicans. Every. Single. One. Of. Them.

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