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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOP moves further toward promoting hate and racism
This would be the Carl Paldino/Elise Stefanik edition. Just sick stuff. Link below the tweet to a NY Times article reporting the hateful remarks in 2016.
EDIT: He's from Buffalo and running in NY.
Link to tweet
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/nyregion/carl-paladino-trump-ally-wishes-obama-dead-and-aims-racial-insults-at-michelle-obama.html
vlyons
(10,252 posts)The ugly words that hateful people speak is toxic. Don't spread it around.
True Dough
(17,331 posts)But it's prudent for all of us to remain aware of the words and actions that the opposition are employing and who they are promoting. In order to counter that vile garbage, we need who is espousing it and the context that it's used in.
Best not to shoot the messenger, but to be informed, no matter how repugnant.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)True Dough
(17,331 posts)is the epitome of a bigot. And to think he could be elected to public office. It turns my stomach.
tman
(983 posts)Dark days ahead.
Boomerproud
(7,968 posts)70sEraVet
(3,516 posts)WAIT!! They're going THAT low???
Some turds just need to be FLUSHED!
True Dough
(17,331 posts)It's like they don't know how to draw lines. Or, more likely, they have no interest in drawing lines. The more despicable, the better, they seem to believe.
no_hypocrisy
(46,202 posts)He hasn't lessened his offensiveness since that time.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)The modern Republican Party is an evil organization.
Donald Trump and Carl Paladino in Albany, NY