Arkansas Republican Party pulls funding for candidates who praised slavery
Source: Raw Story
The Arkansas Republican Party said on Monday that it would no longer provide financial assistance to three candidates who wrote racially insensitive things like slavery was a blessing in disguise and all Muslims should be deported.
State Republican Party Chairman Doyle Webb told the Associated Press that the state party would no longer contribute to House candidate Charlie Fuqua, state Rep. Jon Hubbard or Rep. Loy Mauch.
The Arkansas Times reported last week that Hubbard had revealed some of this thoughts on slavery and racial integration in his book, Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative, including that the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise and that school integration had meant that the white students dropped to the level of black students.
In 2007 and 2009 letters, Mauch had called Abraham Lincoln a war criminal and asserted that Jesus Christ did condone slavery.
Fuqua, a former Arkansas state representative, had called for deporting all Muslims from the U.S. in his 2011 book, Gods Law: The Only Political Solution.
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OKNancy
(41,832 posts)The three guys have done a great job representing them.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Wow, what happened.
rurallib
(62,416 posts)Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)Insert racist, ignorant, fungus-riddled foot.
The Pugs self-implode one at a time. Reminds me of those folks who spend days and days setting up an elaborate Domino structure only to watch one get knocked down and see the rest of them fall.
George II
(67,782 posts).....I know it's the Republican party, but let's give them some credit for cutting off funding in the deep south state of Arkansas.
rurallib
(62,416 posts)but appears they haven't been shy about saying things previously.
I will give them credit though. Usually the tactic is to deny, defend and double down. This is a refreshing change of pace.
smaug
(230 posts)These slimeballs are still getting funding from Steve Womack & Tim Griffith; that is to say they're getting Koch AFP and Karl Rove support. This just lets the 'official' reTHUGlikkklan partei off the hook for PR reasons.
These attitudes actually play well in parts of rural Arkansas.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)He'd make a fine representative indeed. In Iran.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)Who'da thunk it. How do these people get elected in the first place?
christx30
(6,241 posts)for that. I think too many people vote these days. Keeps getting clowns like this elected.
Bette Noir
(3,581 posts)If the Republicans remain the party of old, white men, it'll be gone when the current crop dies off.