GOP candidate's husband shares image urging voters to 'free the black slaves from the Democratic...

[demmiblue]

Source: CNN

(CNN)The husband of Republican congressional candidate Karen Handel shared an image on his Twitter timeline Tuesday that urged voters to support his wife in order to "free the black slaves from the Democratic plantation."

Handel's husband, Steve Handel, shared the image in the form of a quote-tweet, in which he shared the tweet of another user who initially posted the image and added his own commentary. In a statement to CNN's KFile on Tuesday, Handel's campaign said her husband hadn't paid attention to what was said in the original tweet.

"Like many of us, he (Steve) made a mistake and retweeted something he didn't pay a lot of attention to, thinking it was just an absentee vote message. It clearly was not appropriate and has been deleted," a campaign spokesperson said.

Handel is running to replace former Rep. Tom Price, who resigned his seat to become Health and Human Services Secretary. She's locked in a tight race in the runoff election with Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/kfile-karen-handel-husband-tweet/index.html?sr=twpol050217kfile-karen-handel-husband-tweet1017PMVODtopLink&linkId=37125645

[JHan]

1. I've lost count of the times republicans have told me I am a slave..

on a "democrat" (they change the spelling) plantation.

They think we're all crackheads and dusty and stupid.

[Hortensis]

25. Wow. How strange that some grab and run with

just any ball handed off to them. As if it's all some team sport to and mindless loyalty a virtue. I'm sorry you have to put up with these insults on top of all the intolerable lines they throw at us.

[JHan]

26. It gets really ugly with some of them

I've had my fair share from college republicans no less, worse when I left the little libertarian group I was a part of.

[Hortensis]

28. Those who need leashing are off the leash and delighted to act out.

Hope lots of people are documenting some of the most deplorable behaviors and tucking them away for the future. This IS the information age, and college students expect to move on to positions of responsibility. It wouldn't break my heart if they learned what responsibility means.

[JHan]

34. the idea of them being future leaders scares the hell out of me as well.

can only hope there's some epiphany in their lives where their fever of douchebaggery gets exorcised.

[The Wielding Truth]

30. Yet, they are so insulted if you point out that they are being racist.

They just don't see that in our ideal Democratic Party we all have a say, and we all are equal to the same treatment in society and under the law. They separate men, women, races, and creeds according to their stereo types and think it's okay because they are the "good" people. Those actions always turn my stomach.

[MicaelS]

32. How do you reply to them? n/t

[JHan]

33. At first:

I would troll or either throw back some ugly history in their faces. Their response to this was I was "sensitive".

When you come to expect it, it doesn't shock you. It becomes "one of those things".

the most lol worthy moment was when one of them told me "I thought you were different" lol.

I also learned to perfect my side eye game when they would drop shady shit.

[Skittles]

2. "thinking it was just an absentee vote message"

riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

[2naSalit]

4. +1

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. That makes him stupid or malevolent. Not pretty either way. . . . nt

[mercuryblues]

3. This is a win-win

scenario for republikkklans.

Someone makes a racist tweet. The candidate makes a transparent excuse and denounces the tweet. *wink*wink* It also makes points with the racists.

[Leith]

5. He Knew Exactly What He Was Retweeting

These little protestations of innocence have never worked.

I can't imagine being that fucking racist and stupid.

[riversedge]

16. If this tweeter @rose10052, I would block her quick

Aricka 👌🏽? @just_amarie_ 7h7 hours ago

.@stevehandel's retweet from @rose10052 made NOT VOTING for @karenhandel even better. I'm neither poor, dependent or ignorant. #proudblkgirl
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🦋? @authentic_april 7h7 hours ago

Such a disgusting tweet. No chance of @karenhandel getting that vote now. All they see is, "ignorant n!ggers" when they see us. Sad.
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Samuel Previtire? @samprevitire 6h6 hours ago

Handel's husband just helped her commit political suicide !!! and @rose10052 retweeted it like a GOP Parrot !!!
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MLWag? @mlwag1
Replying to @samprevitire @authentic_april and

Who is this? I am blocked
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🦋? @authentic_april 3h3 hours ago
Replying to @mlwag1 @samprevitire and

Someone that isn't worth your time or attention...
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/kfile-karen-handel-husband-tweet/index.html?sr=twpol050217kfile-karen-handel-husband-tweet1017PMVODtopLink&linkId=37125645


.............The image, shared by user @rose10052, featured a stock image of young black man in a suit with white text.
"Criticizing black kids for obeying the law, studying in school, and being ambitious as 'acting white' is a trick Democrats play on Black people to keep them poor, ignorant, and dependent," text on the image reads. "Free the black slaves from the Democratic plantation."
"Handel will fight for minorities to excel," the image reads in bold letters at the top. The bottom of the image also tells people to "join the movement" to "send Karen Handel to Congress" with a link to her website.
Here's Handel's tweet:

[iluvtennis]

6. +++ agree

[The Wizard]

8. They think

black people are ignorant of the GOP alignment with Ku Klux Klan values.

[displacedtexan]

9. OMG! These a$$holes seriously believe everyone's as stupid as they are.

There is no excuse, no apology, no rationalization that could ever make this insult even remotely acceptable. Ever. On any level.

Truly heavy sigh.

[blueinredohio]

10. Hope

they put it all over t.v.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. "he (Steve) made a mistake"

Of course he didn't. They don't even "dog whistle" anymore. They just whip out the old bull horn now.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Isn't he going to promise 40 acres and a mule?

[spooky3]

13. Yes, that's a very believable explanation.

Rigghhht.

[Skittles]

15. oh come on spooky3

according to them, "we've all done it"; yes INDEED

[spooky3]

19. I cannot tell you how many times I have mistakenly passed along child

porn to my boss because I thought it was just a set of nice landscape paintings. Anyone could have made an innocent mistake!

[Skittles]

23. aw jeez

you just made me choke on my first coffee off the day

[brush]

14. So we should join the repug party and take our place in the back of their buses, huh?

The repug party is the racist white people's party. We know that.

[Judi Lynn]

17. Karen Handel has the biggies on her side!

[center]





Kkkaren and her lovely husband, Steeeve.

[mr_lebowski]

18. Yeah, just the other day I saw George Soros get out his limo, see a well-dressed black child ...

And then he screamed at the child to 'quit trying to act all WHITE, and get back to Our Democrat Plantation, bail you some cotton, you little (N-word)"

No, seriously, for reals.

"Of COURSE ... that's how them Limousine Liberal Democrats think 'bout minorities, they don't LOVE THEM and want 'em to SUCCEED so, so badly ... like the good-hearted, God-Fearin' Xtian Folk in the GOP. Everybody knows THAT!

BTW, Did you know Lincoln ... was Republican? I bet you didn't ... cause the Liberal Media!"

These chucklenuts really think everyone is as stupid as their 'base'. Or themselves.

[IronLionZion]

21. The GOP has to go back 150 years to think of a good Republican president

[Retrograde]

27. T. Roosevelt wasn't too bad

and that's only 108 years. He wasn't perfect (too much of a warmonger and expansionist IMO) but he did a lot the modern Republican party is still trying to destroy.

[IronLionZion]

31. Eisenhower desegregated schools and built the highway system

and warned us about the military industrial complex. He was a good president in many ways.

[IronLionZion]

20. Hopefully Georgia voters are better than this

hoping....

Isn't it odd that Republicans often think the worst about black people? They automatically think of slavery and crime and poverty, and never anything good. They just want to make America great again back to when things were really great for a selected few. While completely ignoring the successful educated black Americans living and voting in that district.

We can beat these assholes.

[maxrandb]

22. Don't "effing" Bet on it

Majority of GA voters are still fighting the Civil War.

Sorry, but giving the fucking south the vote back was a fucking mistake. Should have annexed the good parts and let the rest create their own dumbass country

[yellowcanine]

24. "Like many of us, he (Steve) made a mistake and retweeted something..."

Who is "us" Kemo sabe?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

29. Oh that'll play well