GOP lawmaker rejects racism charge: 'My son is named after a black guy'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: The Hill

BY ARIS FOLLEY - 07/09/18 12:47 PM EDT

Rep. Scott Taylor (R-Va.), who is campaigning for reelection in November, said Democrats are “stupid” if they believe he is an ally of Virginia GOP Senate candidate Corey Stewart.

“I don’t give a shit about Corey Stewart,” Taylor told The Virginia-Pilot. “No one else does either except for Democrats who are trying to target me. ... No one cares, except for a small teeny amount of people you met at the cupcake place. What are they trying to say? That Scott Taylor likes Corey Stewart so therefore he’s a racist?”

“Do you think that’s going to play here?” Taylor continued. “My son is named after a black guy. I’m a military guy. We don’t give a shit about where you come from. Black, white, brown, gay, straight. I don’t care.”

It is unclear who Taylor’s 5-year-old son, reportedly named Sterling, is named after.

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Rep. Scott Taylor

[sandensea]

1. One of America's most gerrymandered districts.

Taylor's one of these congresscritters that could never win in a fair districting system.

I'm familiar with that district (VA-2). It's basically anchored around a city called Poquoson - a very racist, fundamentalist, boring little place that floods all the time because they have no municipal tax and therefore too few storm drains.

The rest of the district snakes through Hampton, carefully avoiding the Black neighborhoods, and literally crosses the bay into the country club area of Virginia Beach.

It then crosses the bay again into another fundamentalist area, rural Accomack Peninsula (lots of anti-gummint sentiment, though utterly dependent on it).

His predecessor, Scott Rigell, won in 2010 by telling his "black dog" joke (you know the one).

[SunSeeker]

2. K & R for exposure.

[Initech]

3. I'm not racist but....

[Dave Starsky]

4. "I'm not ______, but..."

Absolutely guarantees the person is what they profess not to be, whatever it is.

[RhodeIslandOne]

5. What dead eyes on this asshole

Looks like a fucking serial killer in the making.

[tonyt53]

6. I actually do know a black guy, born in the US Virgin Islands, that has a last name of Sterling.

[Bob Loblaw]

7. I was named after

everyone who was named before me.

[Cold War Spook]

8. Sterling Hayden was Black?

I don't think so.

[EarthFirst]

9. The "cupcake place"

What are we whistling here? Cause it ain’t Dixie.

[peekaloo]

10. He should be selling those 'Tac' products on teevee.

rather than representing raging assholes in his district.