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rurallib

(63,156 posts)
Wed Oct 31, 2018, 01:14 PM Oct 2018

Gov. Reynolds, remove Steve King as campaign chair

(email from the Hubbell campaign)

Time and again, we’ve seen Rep. Steve King spew hateful, divisive rhetoric. And time and again, we’ve seen Governor Reynolds defend her campaign co-chair.

She's been confronted by her own supporters, and even Republican Party leaders who condemn his divisive, reprehensible actions. But the Governor continues to let him hold a top leadership role in her campaign.

Steve King's actions do not represent Iowa values, and Gov. Reynolds should remove him from his role in her campaign.

We need leaders in our state ready to stand up against hate and division and commit to bringing us together for a brighter future and the change that Iowans desperately need. Iowans are kind and giving and dedicated to bringing people together to make our state the best it can be, and that’s what our leaders should strive toward -- not defend and uplift the rhetoric designed to divide us.


Do you think Reynolds will finally get it as even Republicans condemn King? Any politician with an ounce of integrity would never had link themselves to King to begin with.

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Gov. Reynolds, remove Steve King as campaign chair (Original Post) rurallib Oct 2018 OP
Doesn't a sitting Congressman have exboyfil Oct 2018 #1
King doesn't campaign. For that matter the "campaign chair" is mostly a title rurallib Oct 2018 #3
His fellow Republicans knew extractly where he from coming from. Iliyah Oct 2018 #2
But they all pretend not to see anything and can't understand what the problem is rurallib Oct 2018 #4
My email to Governor Reynolds -- JT45242 Nov 2018 #5
nice letter and welcome to DU rurallib Nov 2018 #6
Well writtten letter The Polack MSgt Nov 2018 #7

exboyfil

(17,975 posts)
1. Doesn't a sitting Congressman have
Wed Oct 31, 2018, 01:28 PM
Oct 2018

anything better to do than be the campaign chair for a Governor's race?

rurallib

(63,156 posts)
3. King doesn't campaign. For that matter the "campaign chair" is mostly a title
Wed Oct 31, 2018, 01:32 PM
Oct 2018

and King actually does little with the Reynolds campaign.
This goes right along with his efforts in congress where he does almost nothing.
(BTW, IIRC, his staff in Washington is all family where they pull down @ half a million or more annually)

IIRC she defended having King as "chair" about two months ago after another white supremacist incident. Can't remember the exact details. Reynolds couldn't understand what the flap was all about.

rurallib

(63,156 posts)
4. But they all pretend not to see anything and can't understand what the problem is
Wed Oct 31, 2018, 01:36 PM
Oct 2018

In a word, complicit.

JT45242

(2,845 posts)
5. My email to Governor Reynolds --
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 12:58 PM
Nov 2018

Governor Reynolds

As a voter for 30 years, I always review the positions, platforms, and performance of the candidates for every office before I vote. I comb through interviews with groups like the League of Women Voters, newspapers, and read through the transcripts of the debates so that I can best select the candidate that I believe can meet the needs of my current community in the present and moving forward.

However, before I get to that stage, I have a very simple bar that every politician must cross before I can even consider him or her for public office. The candidate must denounce Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, White Nationalists, the KKK and other hate groups.

To even have a chance of earning my vote, you would have to clearly and unequivocally state that those groups are abhorrent to everything you believe in and that anyone who aligns themselves with those groups is completely unfit for public office.

To date, one of the chief architects of your campaign is Representative King who has not only accepted junkets from these groups but endorsed them. Unless you publically denounce the hateful speech of the White Nationalists and other groups and remove Mr. King from your campaign, I cannot ever even consider voting for you.

This seems like a pretty low bar to jump to me – denounce Neo-Nazis and related groups. Sadly, I doubt that you will.

If you do so before I vote on Tuesday then I will look at your record as an advocate on the Iowa STEM council as Lt Governor and other positions. If not, you will have disqualified yourself from ever being a viable candidate for office as someone who aligns herself with racists and white supremacists.

rurallib

(63,156 posts)
6. nice letter and welcome to DU
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 01:32 PM
Nov 2018

yes that does seem to be a very low bar that anyone should be able to cross.

The Polack MSgt

(13,416 posts)
7. Well writtten letter
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 03:25 PM
Nov 2018

I hope it shames him, although I doubt Republicans can be shamed anymore.

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