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Related: About this forumFacebook drama in #VaSen GOP primary spilling over into debate stage at Liberty.
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Facebook drama in #VaSen GOP primary spilling over into debate stage at Liberty. Nick Freitas calling out Corey Stewart supporters who have been posting taco memes about him because they think his last name sounds Mexican Stewart calls Freitas thin-skinned
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cool, was stewart still crying from when people yelled at him for being racist while he was eating dinner
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Facebook drama in #VaSen GOP primary spilling over into debate stage at Liberty. (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Apr 2018
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Nick Freitas says at Liberty University debate that Corey Stewart's camp attacked his ethnicity
mahatmakanejeeves
Apr 2018
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underpants
(182,868 posts)1. Liberty "U" why am I not surprised.
Diploma mill and credit generator.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)2. Haaa - Liberty, just another GOP propaganda outlet and fake university
At a propaganda university how can you take speakers seriously?
On the topic-
Nick Freitas calling out Corey Stewart supporters who have been posting taco memes about him because they think his last name sounds Mexican
Stewart calls Freitas thin-skinned
Stewart calls Freitas thin-skinned
Sounds like the GOP really has institutionalized racism. They don't just ramp up the racism dogwhistles around election time anymore.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,586 posts)3. Nick Freitas says at Liberty University debate that Corey Stewart's camp attacked his ethnicity
Nick Freitas, a Republican military veteran with a Portuguese last name, is running for U.S. Senate in Virginia. Supporters of his Trump-style opponent, Corey Stewart, have responded with taco jokes http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/gop-s-nick-freitas-says-at-liberty-university-debate-that/article_44c592e9-01ab-5940-aba5-3a8ef476664a.html
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GOP's Nick Freitas says at Liberty University debate that Corey Stewart's camp attacked his ethnicity
By PATRICK WILSON Richmond Times-Dispatch 14 hrs ago
LYNCHBURG GOP U.S. Senate candidate Nick Freitas in a debate on Thursday called out rival Corey Stewarts campaign for making ethnic jokes about his name. Stewart responded that if a little name-calling got under Freitas skin, he would be thrashed by Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine should he be the GOP nominee in the general election.
The scrap came toward the end of a lively debate at Liberty University featuring Stewart, Freitas and minister E.W. Jackson of Chesapeake, who are competing in the June 12 primary. The candidates discussed foreign policy, defended President Donald Trump and the tax cut he signed last year, and called for an end to the special counsels investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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House of Delegates member Freitas, who recently told a group he was speaking to that he is Latino, launched his offensive.
My daughter came over to me one day and asked, Daddy, what is wrong with our last name? And its because two of [Stewarts] field directors were putting out memes that were saying things like Freitas sounds like something more on the dollar menu at Taco Bell than it does a U.S. Senate candidate. ... I fought for my country. I am every bit as much a citizen as you are, Corey Stewart, and I dont appreciate it when my kids have to ask me that question in this country.
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pwilson@timesdispatch.com (804) 649-6061 Twitter: @patrickmwilson
Staff writer Graham Moomaw contributed to this story.
By PATRICK WILSON Richmond Times-Dispatch 14 hrs ago
LYNCHBURG GOP U.S. Senate candidate Nick Freitas in a debate on Thursday called out rival Corey Stewarts campaign for making ethnic jokes about his name. Stewart responded that if a little name-calling got under Freitas skin, he would be thrashed by Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine should he be the GOP nominee in the general election.
The scrap came toward the end of a lively debate at Liberty University featuring Stewart, Freitas and minister E.W. Jackson of Chesapeake, who are competing in the June 12 primary. The candidates discussed foreign policy, defended President Donald Trump and the tax cut he signed last year, and called for an end to the special counsels investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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House of Delegates member Freitas, who recently told a group he was speaking to that he is Latino, launched his offensive.
My daughter came over to me one day and asked, Daddy, what is wrong with our last name? And its because two of [Stewarts] field directors were putting out memes that were saying things like Freitas sounds like something more on the dollar menu at Taco Bell than it does a U.S. Senate candidate. ... I fought for my country. I am every bit as much a citizen as you are, Corey Stewart, and I dont appreciate it when my kids have to ask me that question in this country.
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pwilson@timesdispatch.com (804) 649-6061 Twitter: @patrickmwilson
Staff writer Graham Moomaw contributed to this story.