New Mexico GOP official calls woman a 'radical bitch' for supporting higher minimum wage

[kpete]

WED APR 24, 2013 AT 11:22 AM PDT

New Mexico GOP official calls woman a 'radical bitch' for supporting higher minimum wage
by Laura Clawson


Republicans spew a lot of ugliness on gay rights, guns, abortion, and other subjects too numerous to name. But they usually keep their arguments against raising the minimum wage semi-wonky. Wrong, but at least not personally nasty. Not Steve Kush, executive director of the Republican Party of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, though! At a county commission meeting on raising the minimum wage, Kush had this to say about a 19-year-old Working America member there to testify:

Nice hat Working America chick but damn you are a radical bitch
— @snkush via Facebook

Again, 19 years old, not an employee of an advocacy organization, there to tell her elected representatives on the county commission why she wants to see a higher minimum wage. But Kush didn't stop there. As Working America's state director stood to testify, Kush kept going:




As you might guess, "walking Central" is a reference to a street where prostitutes gather. And Bob Cornelius, the guy who said that? A former executive director of the county Republican party, and a former candidate for state land commissioner.




the rest:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/24/1204485/-New-Mexico-GOP-official-calls-woman-a-radical-bitch-for-supporting-higher-minimum-wage
http://progressnownewmexico.pnstate.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=85544.0

[sinkingfeeling]

1. He should be forced to resign.

[Archae]

3. No! Keep him in!

The more he types/opens his big mouth, the worse the GOP looks.

[Bandit]

7. Only to you.. to the GOP he is seen as a brave warrior not afraid to speak his mind..

GOP loves the gutter. They have been rolling in it for decades now... There is simply no dignity left in the GOP at any level..

[freshwest]

8. Agreed. Same sewer breeds them all.

[G_j]

2. 19 year old concerned about surviving

on minimum wage, gets compared to a prostitute! And since when is survival radical?

[Rex]

5. These particular GOPukers are all well taken care of, they know nothing of survival.

Fucking pigs...I would like to take a boot and shove it up their collective asses.

[Aristus]

4. Stay classy, dickhead...

And for anybody on Hypocrisy Watch: 'dickhead' is a cleaner version of what I wanted to call him. Plus, he's earned the epithet.

[seabeyond]

6. ya. there is not a real issue with how men talk to and about women today. hey, rad... we hear it

ALL the time from some of the PROGRESSIVE du men to try and shut us up. not so different that what we hear from the repugs.

man issue, not a political party issue.

[whathehell]

9. +1 n/t

[G_j]

10. I think it's both

simply because the GOP continually supports its members who make such statements.

[seabeyond]

15. point. not to mention legislation. but, yes, they do not call out the men that do this. well,

they didnt. they are doing it more now than the past. the one that said "children and vagina's" got called on it pretty quickly by another repug.

[G_j]

26. Ugh..

I missed that one.. I thought nothing was too over the top for them, but wow...

can't so much blame the GOP for creating the attitudes, but the party attracts people with those attitudes and reinforces them for sure. They come from our culture not a political party.

[2ndAmForComputers]

18. Your eagerness to establish that misogyny is not a predominantly right-wing thing...

...which it obviously is, just like racism, homophobia, etc...

...is indeed curious. Very curious.

[seabeyond]

21. without acknowledgement it cannot be addressed. unaddressed, it cannot be solved or healed. and

we stay the same.

us women on du that speak out about womens issues are constantly and continuously called radical. not that a single person will point out the "radical" when they use that term. but, yes, it is used often by SOME men on du in order to insult and shut us up.

why do you have an issue me pointing that out.

[redqueen]

19. Yep. Some men AND women here say it is just fine to call a woman a b. nt

[seabeyond]

23. i did not even address the B word. but yes, the same people i am referring to calling us radical

tell us the B word is a compliment.

[BrotherIvan]

11. That revolting exchange is how many men talk about women

And women are supposed to "lighten up" and "let it go"

[neverforget]

12. They can't help themselves because this is who they are.

mostly white males of privilege

[Matariki]

13. Wow. That guy's attitude toward women is over the top.

What a loser. As in, losing his elected office asap.

A nice job mopping floors at Walmart seems like it should be his karma. If karma existed and the world was fair.

[Initech]

14. They only care about what makes their rich friends richer.

[MindPilot]

16. the misogyny is only part of a much bigger issue

the bigger issue is that elected officials should not be disrespecting ANY constituent. The fact that this is becoming more and more common is yet another sign that the people WE elect to public office see us not as citizens to be served, but subjects to be kept in our place.

[Brigid]

30. We have our winner.

[Recursion]

17. We need a lot more radical bitches in this country, then (nt)

[LisaLynne]

22. ...

[seabeyond]

24. actually the raidical of feminism is not so radical and much needed in the movement.

so really, not much of an insult. the greater insult is an ugly old fart addressing her as if he "could" do her. vomit. he addresses her looks, we address his.

Radical feminism is an older perspective within feminism, now primarily associated with second-wave feminism of the 1980's that focuses on the theory of patriarchy as a system of power that organizes society into a complex of relationships based on the assertion that male supremacy[1] oppresses women. Radical feminism aims to challenge and overthrow patriarchy by opposing standard gender roles and oppression of women and calls for a radical reordering of society.[1] Early radical feminism, arising within second-wave feminism in the 1960s,[2] typically viewed patriarchy as a "transhistorical phenomenon"[3] prior to or deeper than other sources of oppression, "not only the oldest and most universal form of domination but the primary form"[4] and the model for all others.[4] Later politics derived from radical feminism ranged from cultural feminism[1] to more syncretic politics that placed issues of class, economics, etc. on a par with patriarchy as sources of oppression.[5]
Radical feminists locate the root cause of women's oppression in patriarchal gender relations, as opposed to legal systems (as in liberal feminism) or class conflict (as in socialist feminism and Marxist feminism).

[Recursion]

25. I think Stanton would have owned that name, at least.

And she's the reason I call myself a feminist.

He's an asshole, but "The Radical Bitches" could be a good band name.

[ananda]

20. GOP namecaller is prolly a ...

... greedy, sociopathic troglodyte.

So there!

[DirkGently]

27. What. The. F*ck?

I don't even have words for the despicable here.

[nashville_brook]

28. this is not shocking at all coming from the party of "legitimate rape"

gack.

[octothorpe]

29. Keeping it classy... Interesting how he didn't really address Mr.Abbott's statement about

how he doesn't think people who earn minimum wage should be able to afford shoes.