GOP shrugs off new ire over Metcalfes defense of white supremacist

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Pennnsylvania State House Rep Metcalf is the chair the House Committee on State Government in 2011

AUG 14, 2017

In 2015, Metcalfe, who frequently describes Pennsylvania as being under attack by “illegal aliens,” was promoting a bill to make English the state’s official language. During a hearing of the committee he chairs, he invited Robert Vandervoort to testify. Vandervoort was executive director of ProEnglish, which campaigns against bilingual education and against multiculturalism, at the time.
When now-convicted state Rep. Leslie Acosta denounced Vandervoort as a “white supremacist” at the time, Metcalfe was outraged. He rushed to the defense, emphasizing that Vandervoort was, in fact, a white nationalist.

“It was an email put out alleging that somebody was a white nationalist, which is quite a bit different from a white supremacist. To say somebody is a nationalist and for the independence of their country and a patriot to defending their country, is a lot different from saying somebody is a racist," Metcalfe said at the time.

http://cityandstatepa.com/content/gop-shrugs-new-ire-over-metcalfe%E2%80%99s-defense-white-supremacist

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