Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Endorses Local Politician Accused of Peddling "Racist Conspiracies"

[muriel_volestrangler]

Last week, Mother Jones reported that controversial, Putin-loving Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) had hobnobbed at a fundraiser with an alleged Holocaust denier—after being criticized for his previous association with the man. This week, Rohrabacher, who is in a tough race to hold on to his Southern California congressional seat, pulled a similar move: He endorsed a local politician who has been described by one media outlet as a “peddler of racist conspiracies.”

On Tuesday, Rohrabacher posted a photo on Instagram of him with Gracey Larrea-Van Der Mark, a candidate for a school board seat in Huntington Beach, California. Rohrabacher endorsed her and called her a “patriot.”

The Republican Party of Orange County also endorsed her candidacy, according to Larrea-Van Der Mark’s Facebook page.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/rep-dana-rohrabacher-endorses-local-politician-accused-of-peddling-racist-conspiracies/

My colleague Gabriel San Roman has written extensively about Gracey Van Der Mark, who may hold the distinction of being the only Ocean View School District Board of Trustees candidate to have been shamed by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and an incumbent trustee who had appointed the person to an OVSD advisory committee.
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“This meeting was being ran by the elderly Jewish people who were in there,” Van Der Mark wrote in comments with her video that has since been deleted. “The colored people were there doing what the elderly Jewish people instructed them to do.”
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Rabbi Peter Levi, the ADL’s Orange County regional director, had sent letters to the city council and the OVSD seeking investigations of Van Der Mark. “There is ample evidence she has made bigoted and hateful comments and that she has participated in activities organized and led by white supremacists,” Levi wrote. “These words and actions call into question her ability to serve as an appointed leader in the Huntington Beach community.”

Meanwhile, Van Der Mark also drew heat for posting on a Three Percenters Facebook group that the U.S. Department of Education was allegedly funding sharia indoctrination in public schools. “Ms. Van Der Mark’s past racist statements about African-Americans, her abject denial of the Holocaust, as well as her Islamophobic stance show that she is squarely qualified for the title of equal-opportunity bigot, but certainly not school board member,” says Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR’s Greater Los Angeles Chapter, in San Roman’s piece. “At a time when biased-driven school bullying is at an all-time high, I hope that voters will send a clear message that bigotry and ignorance have no place in our schools. Our Huntington Beach schools, staff, and children deserve better.”

https://www.ocweekly.com/school-board-candidate-tied-to-white-supremacists-poised-to-get-oc-gop-nod/

[CurtEastPoint]

1. omfg... She IS a patriot. Lookit her dang clothes!

Fucking idiot.