Gov. Reynolds, remove Steve King as campaign chair

[rurallib]

(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.

[exboyfil]

1. Doesn't a sitting Congressman have

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

[rurallib]

3. King doesn't campaign. For that matter the "campaign chair" is mostly a title

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.

[Iliyah]

2. His fellow Republicans knew extractly where he from coming from.

[rurallib]

4. But they all pretend not to see anything and can't understand what the problem is

In a word, complicit.

[JT45242]

5. My email to Governor Reynolds --

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]

6. nice letter and welcome to DU

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

[The Polack MSgt]

7. Well writtten letter

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

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