Sheriff Ozzie on GOP chair who hosted white supremacist: Told ya.
One thing the Spokane Republican Party can never say: that they hadn't been told.
Years before Cecily Wright hosted a white supremacist to speak at a right-wing gathering, before furious party members expressed their disappointment, before she resigned as chair, Wright was well known as a controversial figure.
In 2014 and 2015, Wright, along with Spokane Valley Rep. Matt Shea, was locked in a feud with Spokane Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich. Part of the conflict had to do with differing views on whether "police militarization" existed — or was a problem. But Shea and Wright also believed Knezovich had it out for "constitutionalists."
As Knezovich slammed Wright for being too close with the fringe — even accusing her of putting some of his deputies in danger with her rhetoric — she objected. Knezovich was wrong, she said, for comparing Wright's Northwest Grassroots group to racists and extremists.
"Those are the sovereign citizens. Those are white supremacists. Those are Nazis. Those are nutjobs," Wright told the Inlander. "The line has totally been blurred."
Read more: https://www.inlander.com/spokane/sheriff-ozzie-on-gop-chair-who-hosted-white-supremacist-told-ya/Content?oid=11239048
Nothing like some GOP infighting for amusement.
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