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, Intels director of policy and external partnerships, told employees that the company would no longer donate to Kings re-election campaign after it looked into his public statements and determined they conflict with Intel values. Intel had already donated $2,000 to Kings 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, Torontos white supremacist candidate for mayor.
King has long promoted white nationalist views without any consequence from the GOP. The Iowa congressman .................................
Despite Kings 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 OLakes, 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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George II
(67,782 posts)...in Congress, although they're lining up behind him vying for the top spot.
Moostache
(9,897 posts)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...
Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)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)'How could we have known?'
Ridiculous.
How I.G. Farben.
bucolic_frolic
(43,295 posts)Of course not, and that is their tacit approval of what Steve King is doing
PSPS
(13,614 posts)wolfie001
(2,269 posts).....MUTHER FUCKER 1 cent!!!! Goddamn 'em!!!!