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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 06:01 PM
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Arizona Senate Majority Leader Is Following Stormfront On Twitter!
Edited on Mon May-03-10 06:03 PM by BlooInBloo
:rofl:

This is the sort of person the Arizona electorate votes into office. Great job, Arizona.

:rofl:

http://gawker.com/5529952/arizona-republican-leader-follows-white-supremacist

"Don Black is a Florida-based white supremacist who is banned from the UK for inciting hatred. Arizona State Senate Majority leader Chuck Gray—a proponent of the recent immigration bill—follows him, and another white power feed, on Twitter.

StormfrontWPWW (White Pride Worldwide) is the Twitter account for Stormfront, a racist organization that is the latest project of uber-racist Stephen Donald Black, better known as Don Black. He was a Grand Wizard in the KKK and a member of the American Nazi Party. In 1981 he was convicted and jailed for trying to invade the Dominican Republic with a boatload of weapons, in order to set up some kind of utopian state. (He's pictured below, at a conference organized by the infamous white supremacist David Duke.) Stormfront.org, the website he set up on his release from jail, is a hate-filled racist forum.

Its Twitter account, and another neo-Nazi feed linked to it, are among 4,819 that Arizona State Senate Majority Leader Chuck Gray (top) follows. (See screenshots below.) Stormfront does not reciprocate, however—the group follows no one. Which means that Gray, or whoever is responsible for his Twitter account, sought out the racist organization specifically and decided its tweets were essential reading. Perhaps because they've linked heavily on their feed to stories about the recent Arizona immigration bill and similarly racist-tinged measures in the state to remove teachers with "ethnic" accents from classrooms? Of course, this isn't the first time Arizona's right-wing politicians have been linked with racist groups."
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 06:03 PM
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1. who has time to follow 4,819 twitters? Sheesh talk about no life nt
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 06:17 PM
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2. lol yah - I noticed that too.
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 06:31 PM
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3. Next thing you know, he'll be tapping into DU's I/P forum.
Edited on Mon May-03-10 06:32 PM by Jim Sagle
Badda bing, badda boom!
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 06:53 PM
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4. Yep
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8266705

This ain't no auto-follow. This ain't no disco. This ain't no foolin' around. :hi:
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 07:04 PM
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5. Ooops. Didn't see your thread. My bad.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 07:11 PM
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6. It's all good
The more this gets around, the better. :)
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-10 11:39 PM
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7. Arizona also elected Janet Napolitano and Terry Goddard
as well as a Democratic Majority of House seats. It is really too bad we didn't elect enough dems to control our state house and Senate but I am really tired of some giving us no credit for our officials at all. If our "elected" Governor had stayed in place, we would be in as bad shape. Perhaps NOW , the AZ Dem party will get the message ALL politics is local , and stop thinking that the only important stuff happens in DC.
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