GOP Candidate Corey Stewart's Spokesperson Called Majority-Black Cities 'Shitholes'

[DonViejo]

Staff for a neo-Confederate apologist running for Senate from Virginia have disparaged minorities, previously worked for an anti-Semite, and praised a neo-Nazi.

KELLY WEILL
07.29.18 7:55 PM ET

Corey Stewart, the Republican candidate for Senate in Virginia, has been shunned by his own party over his ties with neo-Confederate groups and his refusal to condemn white supremacist violence. That hasn’t stopped several activists who express similarly extreme views from working for Stewart.

One of Stewart’s spokespersons, Rick Shaftan, tweeted that three majority-black U.S. cities were “shitholes” and repeatedly warned against opening businesses in black neighborhoods. Shaftan, along with Stewart’s other spokesperson, previously worked on behalf of an anti-Semite running for House Speaker Paul Ryan’s seat in Wisconsin.

In addition, a Stewart volunteer was a member of a chat group that planned a sequel to the deadly right-wing rally in Charlottesville, The Daily Beast previously reported. Meanwhile, a former Stewart staffer appeared to praise the founder of the American Nazi Party, and recently left Stewart’s team for a role on the campaign of a New Jersey politician who has previously posted white supremacist content.

Shaftan, who runs communications for Stewart, has for years publicly disparaged black people on Twitter.

“Crazed black people looting a liquor store is the ultimate racist stereotype. #Ferguson,” he tweeted in 2014 after the unrest following a white police officer’s killing of a black teenager. “After #Ferguson, only a fool would start, finance or insure a business in a black neighborhood,” he tweeted again. After violence in Baltimore following the death of a black man at the hands of police, Shaftan tweeted “The message out of Ferguson and Baltimore is a simple one: DON'T OPEN A BUSINESS IN A BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD!”

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[dalton99a]

1. R stands for Racist

[phylny]

2. Shunned by his party, sure.

But some of his campaign signs read, "Trump Campaign Chairman" (IIRC) which is funny since he was removed from the position.

[onenote]

3. Corey Stewart had volunteers at the Falls Church farmers' market on Saturday

The City of Falls Church went for Hillary over Trump by a whopping 75-17 margin. Some of the areas of Fairfax County closest to the farmers' market gave Hillary an even bigger margin. And, for heaven's sake, it's a farmer's market! Not surprisingly, the Stewart volunteers couldn't get anyone to talk to them or even look at them. Good to see them wasting their time.