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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Cowboys for Trump' leader chided for 'dead Democrat' remark
Source: Associated Press
By RUSSELL CONTRERAS
May 20, 2020
RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) The founder of a group Cowboys for Trump who also serves as a New Mexico county commissioner is facing calls to resign after he metaphorically said in a video, the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.
In the video posted Tuesday on social media, Republican Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin said Democrats were anti-American and opposed to President Donald Trump.
Ive come to a place where Ive come to the conclusion that the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat, Griffin said in a video on the Cowboys for Trump Facebook and Twitter pages. The crowd at an unknown event began to cheer. It was not clear when it was recorded.
I dont say that in the physical sense, and I can already see where the videos getting edited where it says I want to go murder Democrats. No, Griffin continued. I say that in the political sense because the Democrat agenda and policy is anti-American right now.
By late Tuesday, a clip of the first part of Griffins comments circulated among Democrats who called for him to resign from the county commission.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/338e462b1dde54e926ef4b637b406be7
FILE - In this March 12, 2019, file photo, Otero County Commissioner and Cowboys for Trump founder Coy Griffin denounces gun control and pro-abortion rights bills in the New Mexico State Legislature at a protest outside the Statehouse in Santa Fe, N.M. The group said this week seek arbitration in a fight with the New Mexico Secretary of State over fines and required reports. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)
Aristus
(66,462 posts)Few of these hammerheads are. All hat and no cattle...
Mariana
(14,860 posts)ALAMOGORDO Couy Griffin believes his experience as pastor of the New Heart Church in Alamogordo will help him administer the needs of the county.
Griffin, a Republican, is running against Democrat Christopher Jones for the District 2 Otero County Commission seat in the November general election.
Most of my morals and principles do come from my faith, he said.
https://www.alamogordonews.com/story/news/local/community/2018/10/30/republican-candidate-county-commissioner-griffin-faith/1763610002/
tanyev
(42,610 posts)Harker
(14,034 posts)drooling on his sleeve.
eppur_se_muova
(36,289 posts)tanyev
(42,610 posts)And his jacket doesn't look very...um .functional.
PJMcK
(22,048 posts)Most of us stopped dressing up to play Cowboys and Indians when we were about 8 or 9 years old. You might reconsider your wardrobe if you want to be taken seriously.
Also, your projection of yourself as a "rugged individual" is undercut by the fact that you work for the government! Hypocrite.
lame54
(35,321 posts)There is a likelihood that one of his relatives, a close friend, someone he cares about...is a Democrat.
Years ago I was at a bar and overheard a friend saying he'd shoot a Dem on sight. I told him to go for it. He had no clue I was a Democrat. He did apologize and admitted he had family that were Dems.
Anyone, right or left, that says anything like this is an ass. I won't wish harm on anyone just because of a political affiliation. I don't have to like them, agree with them or share a meal with them, but I don't need them to die in order to do so. Small freaking minded shits.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)The Republican Death Cult(tm) on parade. They are starting to be like their admired predecessors and violence and aggression disguised as self-preservation becomes more prevalent as their projected fears and paranoia become more difficult to repress or introspect on.
How sick and disgusting can it get when Coy Griffin wears the carcass of his dead girlfriend around his neck like that. They are a barbaric heathens putting on wedge issues and using them to push a dangerous agenda.
These are not patriots. They are not real Christians. They are more like the Orange Shirt harbingers of a new form of Fascism, American-style.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)the only Idiot County Commissioner who has utter that statement. Here in the South West,we got a lot of them. Kick myself for not carrying my phone years ago when dealing with a few of these nasty people.
Paladin
(28,272 posts)world wide wally
(21,754 posts)IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)or village idiots
Midnight Writer
(21,795 posts)You said it.
In public.
Word for word.
Not a "metaphor".
Not sarcasm.
Idiot.