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GOP Official Urges Threats to Muslims (Original Post) babylonsister Aug 2014 OP
Bet the idiot doesn't know he wouldn't be able to say Fawke Em Aug 2014 #1
It's a duty now? I though it has been for the GOP for a long time. n/t Jefferson23 Aug 2014 #2
GOP tries to pretend it doesn't know him muriel_volestrangler Aug 2014 #3
the new poster boy for rkba. n/t PowerToThePeople Aug 2014 #4

muriel_volestrangler

(101,361 posts)
3. GOP tries to pretend it doesn't know him
Thu Aug 7, 2014, 09:48 AM
Aug 2014
Gavin Ellzey, the vice chairman of the Kansas Republican 3rd Congressional District Committee, advised on Twitter in early July that “offending Muslims is the duty of any civilized person.”

Ellzey added, “Especially with a .45.”
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Clay Barker, executive director of the Kansas Republican Party, said the state party has “no responsibility for or connection to the public statements of private citizens who perform volunteer work for the party.”

http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article1160420.html

What bollocks. Vice chairman of the Kansas Republican 3rd Congressional District Committee. Of course there's a connection.
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