Top Ohio Republican calls on lawmaker to resign after 'shocking' comments about Dayton shooting

[brooklynite]

Source: Cincinnati Enquirer

COLUMBUS - Ohio Republican Party leader Jane Timken has called on Rep. Candice Keller to resign from her Butler County seat after the lawmaker's comments about Sunday's mass shooting in Dayton.

Keller blamed LGBTQ individuals, former President Barack Obama and professional athletes who wouldn't kneel for the American flag for the shootings in Dayton and El Paso this weekend.

“While our nation was in utter shock over the acts of violence in El Paso and Dayton, Republican State Representative Candice Keller took to social media to state why she thought these acts were happening," Timken said in a statement. "Candice Keller’s Facebook post was shocking and utterly unjustifiable. Our nation is reeling from these senseless acts of violence and public servants should be working to bring our communities together, not promoting divisiveness.”

In the Facebook post, Keller complained about liberals playing the "blame game" after every shooting and asked why not place the blame where it belongs. The Republican lives in Middletown, about 30 miles south of Dayton, where a gunman killed nine people early Sunday.

Read more: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/05/ohio-gop-leader-tells-lawmaker-resign-over-dayton-shooting-post/1925234001/

[lark]

1. Boy, when the Repug party thinks you are a crazy racist, you must be really really bad.

Take her out of office, she is totally unqualified.

[BamaRefugee]

2. Crocodile tears from Timken, just to score points. Why doesn't she quit the Republicans instead?

[marble falls]

3. How does Barrack Obama and the LBGQT community force RWers to massacre people.

[Kali]

4. By existing

[True Blue American]

5. She has a vote coming up in 2020.

[underpants]

7. They are brainwashed to be victims

It’s that simple.

[yardwork]

17. We are very, very powerful. Shhhhh. Don't tell anyone.

[ToxMarz]

6. Serious case of

RESTING BITCHFACE


Representative Candice Keller

[DemocracyMouse]

16. OMG, you nailed it.

[msongs]

8. translation - we all believe the same thing you do but quit saying it in public nt

[riversedge]

9. here is her Facebook vile rant.........

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[ancianita]

12. Someone should ask her why none of the shooters give those reasons in their manifestos.

She's obviously out of touch with reality and needs to be run out of office.

[moonscape]

19. Yesterday someone on media made a good point

about not calling these diatribes 'manifestos' as that elevates them to something they're not. The argument was that 'rant' is the best description.

[ancianita]

20. Agree wholeheartedly. They were screeds, rants, anti-American hate speech.

[Grokenstein]

13. "Officeholders who have no interest whatsoever..."

"...in learning about our Constitution and the Second Amendment"

How strange you should bring that up, Republican--seeing as how your Putin's-puppet "president" has expressed zero interest in learning about our Constitution (preferring instead to pretend it gives him unchecked power) and you and your base don't understand the Second Amendment nor comprehend the consequences of your willful ignorance.

(Thanks for posting the FB rant here, riversedge!)

[keithbvadu2]

15. Candice, Don't you want to blame billionaires who rape young girls and become president?

Candice, Don't you want to blame billionaires who rape young girls and become president?

or republicans who molest young males and become Speaker of the House?

Dennis Hastert set up a comfortable chair in the boys' shower room for his viewing pleasure.

[Gumboot]

18. "Snowflakes who can't accept a duly elected President."

AKA - the Tea Party. Your supporters, Candice.

[EleanorR]

10. If she resigns, trump will hire her

She's a vile nutjob and would fit right in at the White House.

[geretogo]

11. It looks like all Rethuglicons must take a course in Joseph Gobbels propaganda techniques .

They have learned very well .

[certainot]

14. these things would be very easy to understand if democrats and media could read

occasional summaries of what team limbagh were saying all day.

now timken will get the wrath of the local and state rw radio blowhards, who likely have been repeating that crap all day, blaming liberals for the decay of the moral values that make america great, causing insane killers to buy military weaponry to massacre people

and it would discourage republicans from repeating the crap