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riversedge

(70,306 posts)
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 03:50 PM Oct 2018

Intel Withdraws Funding For White Supremacist GOP Congressman Steve King

Source: Huff post




10/29/2018 11:42 am ET Updated 1 hour ago
King has retweeted and followed neo-Nazis on Twitter and called for the government to spy on mosques.





Technology corporation Intel has dropped its support for Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), an eight-term congressman who has been expressing racist beliefs in increasingly undisguised terms.

In an internal email sent last week, Dawn Jones, Intel’s director of policy and external partnerships, told employees that the company would no longer donate to King’s re-election campaign after it looked into his “public statements and determined they conflict with Intel values.” Intel had already donated $2,000 to King’s 2018 campaign.

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Earlier this month, HuffPost reported on a shocking interview that King gave in August with an Austrian far-right propaganda site. In that interview, King discussed his belief in the superiority of European culture over others and pushed various white nationalist talking points. Last week King also endorsed Faith Goldy, Toronto’s white supremacist candidate for mayor.

King has long promoted white nationalist views without any consequence from the GOP. The Iowa congressman .................................

Despite King’s deep ties to white supremacists and his history of espousing racist views, the Republican National Committee and Republican politicians have largely turned a blind eye to his behavior. King is also still receiving donations from major companies such as AT&T, Land O’Lakes, Berkshire Hathaway and others............................

Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-king-intel_us_5bd7120ee4b055bc948e433e?section=politics&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000016



Post time to see this--but king prob. has already spent this years donations.



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Intel Withdraws Funding For White Supremacist GOP Congressman Steve King (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2018 OP
Tough to rate them against each other, but King is probably the most racist, hateful republican... George II Oct 2018 #1
So Intel, um, why NOW? Why NOT 8 years ago or more? Moostache Oct 2018 #2
+1000! Power 2 the People Oct 2018 #4
Intel didn't bet big on King, does him little harm saidsimplesimon Oct 2018 #3
So, Intel is really, really kinda stupid about things not related to microcircuitry. byronius Oct 2018 #5
"without any consequence from the GOP" bucolic_frolic Oct 2018 #6
Withdraws? Why were they "funding" him in the first place? PSPS Oct 2018 #7
I Can't believe they EVER GAVE THAT...... wolfie001 Oct 2018 #8
K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2018 #9

George II

(67,782 posts)
1. Tough to rate them against each other, but King is probably the most racist, hateful republican...
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 03:54 PM
Oct 2018

...in Congress, although they're lining up behind him vying for the top spot.

Moostache

(9,897 posts)
2. So Intel, um, why NOW? Why NOT 8 years ago or more?
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 03:54 PM
Oct 2018

I find this self-serving on Intel's part. King has been walking human slime for a decade and been getting paid by them to boot...so NOW they grow a conscience? No sale...there is more here...

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
3. Intel didn't bet big on King, does him little harm
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 03:58 PM
Oct 2018

this late in the game. Could it be that Intel does not want to support someone they project to lose? Sorry to doubt their motives

byronius

(7,401 posts)
5. So, Intel is really, really kinda stupid about things not related to microcircuitry.
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 04:23 PM
Oct 2018

'How could we have known?'

Ridiculous.

How I.G. Farben.

bucolic_frolic

(43,295 posts)
6. "without any consequence from the GOP"
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 04:29 PM
Oct 2018

Of course not, and that is their tacit approval of what Steve King is doing

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