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Cairycat

(1,761 posts)
Thu Oct 27, 2016, 02:45 PM Oct 2016

We have some really hateful, vandalizing teanuts in the Cedar Valley

We have a really good, young progressive candidate for board of supervisors, who's active in our community for years. He happens to be openly gay. Look what the local reichwingers did, after a Facebook argument with the Cedar Valley "Patriots for Christ" (retch):

http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/supervisor-candidate-s-home-vandalized-called-hate-crime/article_dfdc4c9c-4b2e-518c-992e-e87f6fe3a6df.html

“They hit my signs and our front door, which is more concerning. It’s basically a death threat,” Schwartz said.

In black paint across his door reads “Lev 20:13,” a likely reference to Leviticus 20:13, a Bible verse about a man lying with another man being an abomination. The verse ends with “They shall surely be put to death.”

The slur “fag” was painted on a blue Schwartz campaign sign, and “Trmp” was painted on a Clinton-Kane sign. Other candidate signs in his yard had black lines sprayed across them.

A Schwartz sign in a neighbor’s yard --- some 20 feet from the damaged signs --- was untouched.


Wow, this makes me so angry. Chris Schwartz has asked that folks not retaliate or put hateful things on Facebook, but rather donate to or volunteer for his campaign. Link if anyone is interested: https://schwartzforsupervisor.com/donate/

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We have some really hateful, vandalizing teanuts in the Cedar Valley (Original Post) Cairycat Oct 2016 OP
And on the same day this came for us in the mail... 47of74 Oct 2016 #1
 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
1. And on the same day this came for us in the mail...
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 11:05 PM
Oct 2016


I wonder if she will be so quick to stand up to what happened to Mr. Schwartz? I wouldn't be surprised if she did not say a word about what happened to him.
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