California gubernatorial recall candidate Larry Elder claimed women 'know less than men'
Source: Business Insider
California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder made numerous derogatory comments about women over his years as a conservative radio host and columnist, according to a CNN KFile report on Thursday.
As recently as January 2017, Elder suggested women who appeared at the Women's March were too unattractive to be sexually assaulted, per the Los Angeles Times. He also insulted those women as "obese."
"When you look at all these women that have marched - something like 2 million women - Donald Trump has probably gotten more obese woman off the couch and in the streets, working out, than Michelle Obama did in eight years," he said on an episode of his eponymous radio show, according to CNN.
In a 2000 column, Elder mocked women and claimed they "know less than men about political issues, economics, and current events."
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This is why Republicans have resorted to coming up with ways to game the system whether it be replacing impartial election officials with Republican appointees in Georgia, creating new voting restrictions in Texas, or underwriting low turnout special recall elections in California.
The goal is to avoid Democracy so that folks with anti-science, misogynist views like Larry Elder can be Governor. It is frustrating that millions of taxpayer dollars are spent to finance these extremist, anti-democratic efforts to suppress the vote.
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MurrayDelph
(5,299 posts)Just because:
When Stephanie Miller had the show following his, she had to make sure they weren't repeating topics, she'd ask her then-
producer (whom Stephanie described as a beautiful black lady with a spectacular rack, that Elder always spoke directly
at) each day what that day's topic was, she always got the same response: s ain't shit.
Elder is on record saying Ashli Babbitt's killing wasn't justified, but Philando Castile's was.
I'm not saying that makes him an Uncle Tom, but it does show he likes the biscuits in the big house.
brush
(53,791 posts)I go along with Elder being a tom though, but I don't go along with him knowing best.
Paladin
(28,265 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,190 posts)I get really tired of the gaslighting on the issue. 'Women will drive you crazy', 'women are just there to make a husband miserable'. Adheres to all the sexist male memes that the old boy network can generate. The type that compares notes on the latest sexist emails of the week. I am really preparing to shut it down but good when the next opportunity arises.
EndlessWire
(6,537 posts)Do you want something like this telling you what you can and can't do?
Women can think. For example, take Creola Katherine Johnson, the brilliant mathematician who helped NASA with orbital mechanics. She helped get us to the moon. I'd take her over Elder any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
TURN OUT AND VOTE NO ON THE RECALL!!! I don't care what Newsom has or hasn't done. Having a red governor for one second would be far, far worse!!
California Kid
(24 posts)Nearly 70% of California likely voters think that the special election to recall Newsom is a waste of money according to a new poll from the public Policy Institute of California.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)brush
(53,791 posts)if successful, the general election rigors, this oppo info would've come out and he'd have been kicked to the curb. This is one big reason California's recall process is deeply flawed. An unvetted candidate with only a small plurality of the electorate can become governor of the largest state in the union.
What a hot mess.
Elessar Zappa
(14,004 posts)to modify or get rid of their recall law. Its ridiculous.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)ck4829
(35,077 posts)canetoad
(17,169 posts)Inadequate, insecure, incompetent, usually unfit and unintelligent. The only thing they have going for them is having tiny shrivelled gonads that precludes reproduction.
maxrandb
(15,334 posts)Democrats don't come out in force to vote against the recall.
Oh, and once that's done...
FIX THIS FUCKED UP RECALL PROCESS
It shouldn't be this easy to recall a governor that won by over 6 million votes, and if said governor fucks up, the LT Gov should take their place.