Issa Slams GOPer: Comments On Islamic Law 'Hateful And Ignorant Garbage'
JULIET WILLIAMS – MAY 9, 2014, 12:19 PM EDT
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa on Thursday strongly condemned comments by GOP gubernatorial front-runner Tim Donnelly, in which the state lawmaker has tried to tie his Indian-American rival to fundamentalist Islamic law, calling his statements "hateful and ignorant garbage."
Donnelly, a state assemblyman who is popular with the tea party, has repeatedly said this week that Neel Kashkari supported Shariah banking code when he was a senior official at the U.S. Treasury Department in 2008. On Facebook, Donnelly posted a link to a banking seminar hosted by the department during which Kashkari, a Hindu, delivered opening remarks.
"As far as I'm concerned, this type of stupidity disqualifies Tim Donnelly from being fit to hold any office, anywhere. Donnelly is no longer a viable option for California voters," Issa, who has endorsed Kashkari, said in a statement.
Aaron McLear, a spokesman for Kashkari, declined to comment on Donnelly's statements. He said the seminar at which Kashkari delivered remarks "was about how you can get capitalist free market principles into fundamentalist Islamic countries, not the opposite."
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