DNC chair: 'Accused child molester' and 'convicted criminal' the best GOP have to offer

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JOHN BOWDEN - 01/09/18 01:04 PM EST

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Tom Perez on Tuesday swiftly condemned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's (R) entrance into the Arizona Senate race, targeting Republicans for supporting both Arpaio and former Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore (R).

In a statement released Tuesday afternoon by the DNC, Perez accused the GOP of not being able to find better candidates for office than an "accused child molester" and a "racist sheriff."

“It’s a sad and disturbing sign of moral decay in the modern Republican Party that a racist former sheriff and convicted criminal in Arizona and an accused child molester in Alabama are the best they have to offer," Perez said in the statement.

"Joe Arpaio is one of our nation’s most notorious agents of racism and bigotry. He has spent his career tearing apart immigrant families and devastating Latino communities, and he has no place in the U.S. Senate," he added.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/368114-dnc-chair-accused-child-molester-and-convicted-criminal-are-the-best-gop

[niyad]

1. no more beating around the bush. let's speak the truth about these creatures.

[gopiscrap]

12. exactly

[Me.]

2. Good One

Keep it up

[mcar]

3. K&R

[IronLionZion]

4. Arpaio lost his last election to a Democrat

His electoral history has shown his support decreasing over time. let's beat him

[not fooled]

10. Let's hope

that asshole joe's support wasn't diminishing just in bluing Maricopa County, and that in a statewide election the more dumb and racist rural areas of ErrorZona aren't enough to get him in.

[brush]

5. Perez, with his behind the scenes support of AA GOTV groups in Alabama and now this...

strong condemnation of Arizona repugs and repugs in general is certainly quieting his critics.

The man knows what he's doing.

[Paladin]

6. Now that's more like it. Keep it up, Perez. (nt)

[ck4829]

7. The ultra right is girding for war against the liberal, against the 'other'. This is a feature...

Not a bug.

For genocide (This war that the right wants) to happen, there must be certain preconditions. Foremost among them is a national culture that does not place a high value on human life. A totalitarian society, with its assumed superior ideology, is also a precondition for genocidal acts. In addition, members of the dominant society must perceive their potential victims as less than fully human: as "pagans," "savages," "uncouth barbarians," "unbelievers," "effete degenerates," "ritual outlaws," "racial inferiors," "class antagonists," "counterrevolutionaries," and so on. In themselves, these conditions are not enough for the perpetrators to commit genocide. To do that—that is, to commit genocide—the perpetrators need a strong, centralized authority and bureaucratic organization as well as pathological individuals and criminals. Also required is a campaign of vilification and dehumanization of the victims by the perpetrators, who are usually new states or new regimes attempting to impose conformity to a new ideology and its model of society.
—?M. Hassan Kakar

One may notice other things happening here as well, we really are in the beginning stages of something that could become very bad.

We need to prepare for this and resist this with a variety of means.

[Wwcd]

8. "Trump & Republicans in Congress don't give a shit about people" Tom Perez 04/17

"Speaking at a 'Unity Rally' in Portland, Maine on Monday, the new DNC chairman Tom Perez continued his reputation for profanity, saying President Trump and Republicans in Congress "don't give a shit about the people" who are hurt by their plans."
April 2017


Tom Perez speaks the truth

[vkkv]

9. DNC chair: Al Franken should resign from the Senate - 12/06

DNC Chairman Tom Perez called Wednesday (12/06/17) for the resignation of Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), amid a growing number of sexual misconduct allegations against the senator.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/363558-dnc-chair-al-franken-should-resign-from-the-senate

[Mopar151]

11. Appear to the frugality of "classic" conservatives!

There are actual conservatives (Rachel Maddow's term is "small c&quot who embody the Merriam-Webster definition of "conservative" - in this case, wer'e talking careful, even thrifty, with the taxpayer"s money!

On that score, Arpiao was HORRIBLE! The multiple lawsuits and settlements cost Maricopa County million$$$$. Their liability insurance went from 0, nada, zip to north of 5 million a year. I'm certain his other grandstanding had similar price tags.

As I told a "classic"friend "Kicking the shit out of people is a goddammed expensive hobby, and I am some f'n tired of paying the bills!""

[iluvtennis]

13. He'll lose given no voter id and voter suppression BS.

[Kablooie]

14. Yeah but they love guns. That trumps everything.

Surefire presidential material to me!

[CrispyQ]

15. This is the kind of messaging we need!

Throw some dirt in their eyes & start punching! Draw some fucking blood!