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TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts) Wed Jul 29, 2020, 03:57 PM Jul 2020

And still it goes on...

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-minnesota-gop-holocaust-coronavirus-mask-20200729-lonyrl4o2jea5m2w5abywjcdye-story.html

A board member of the Republican Party of Wabasha County, Minn., resigned Tuesday after backlash over a Facebook post that compared mandatory coronavirus mask mandates to Nazis in the Holocaust.

Minnesota GOP Chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan initially said that the Facebook group had been hacked before backtracking Tuesday.

“We are saddened by the vitriolic post and hope as we move forward that Republicans and Democrats alike will maintain the highest level of integrity, respect, and sensitivity,” Carnahan said in a statement. “The Wabasha County Board and MN GOP apologizes for this disappointing post.”

The board member has not been publicly identified.

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And still it goes on... (Original Post) TreasonousBastard Jul 2020 OP

I had a stock broker tell me ACA was the same as slavery, once. Eliot Rosewater Jul 2020 #1

First excuse is ALWAYS "We were hacked!" gratuitous Jul 2020 #2

It will come out eventually-- turns out they dumped him (her?) as toxic, but... TreasonousBastard Jul 2020 #3

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)

1. I had a stock broker tell me ACA was the same as slavery, once.

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Wed Jul 29, 2020, 04:02 PM

Jul 2020

Fired him.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

2. First excuse is ALWAYS "We were hacked!"

Reply to TreasonousBastard (Original post)

Wed Jul 29, 2020, 04:05 PM

Jul 2020

Then, when that turns out to be a lie piled on their bigotry, it's soft-peddled as "disappointing," and no, you can't know which of us did it. We may be racist, but we're no snitches!

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

3. It will come out eventually-- turns out they dumped him (her?) as toxic, but...