Adviser to GOP Senate candidate Corey Stewart used expletive to describe majority-black cities

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Adviser to GOP Senate candidate Corey Stewart used expletive to describe majority-black cities

By Antonio Olivo July 30 at 6:37 PM Email the author

A controversial campaign consultant working for Virginia GOP Senate candidate Corey A. Stewart faced fresh scrutiny Monday after several social media posts showed him calling majority-black cities “s---holes,” while at least one more post bemoaned the South’s loss of the Civil War.

Rick Shaftan, who is advising Stewart in his bid to unseat Sen. Tim Kaine (D) in November, lashed out on Twitter earlier this year against the city of Baltimore for replacing a Confederate statue with a memorial to Harriet Tubman, a key figure in the abolitionist movement to end slavery.

“The word #S---hole is an appropriate one to describe this particular s---hole,” Shaftan tweeted in January, above a link to an article about the Tubman memorial, repeating the derogatory term used by President Trump to describe Haiti and countries in Africa.

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{Trump denies ‘shithole’ remark but acknowledges ‘tough’ language}

Previously, Shaftan — a veteran adviser who worked in New Jersey before moving his base to North Carolina — similarly trashed New Orleans and Ferguson, Mo. ... “The message out of Ferguson and Baltimore is a simple one: DON’T OPEN A BUSINESS IN A BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD!” Shaftan tweeted in 2015, following protests in those cities related to the deaths of young black men.
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Antonio Olivo covers government, politics and other issues in Northern Virginia. He worked in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago before joining The Washington Post in 2013. Follow https://twitter.com/aolivo

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Then there's the fact that Trump has tied up the support of the Republican base. That was an unexpected surprise for many political consultants on the right.

Rick Shaftan, a former Jersey political consultant who now works out of North Carolina, was among many conservatives who worked on the campaign of Ted Cruz, the Texas senator who represented the last speed bump on the Donald's road to the nomination.

"I was totally anti-Trump," said Shaftan. "I didn't trust him because I didn't know where the guy was coming from."

Because of Trump's Manhattan roots, "A lot of conservatives thought he was just gonna be a Republican version of Hillary Clinton," he said. ... But now, "he's incredibly popular with conservatives because he's taking on the left and he's winning - to use his term," said Shaftan.

A National Neo-Confederate Group Came for the Statue Removal, Stayed For the Bond Package

Why is a national organization throwing its weight behind opposing a municipal bond package?

BY MATT GOODMAN PUBLISHED IN FRONTBURNER NOVEMBER 7, 2017 4:53 PM

Over the last couple days, a series of bizarre ads (1) urging voters to vote against each proposition in the city’s bond package was uploaded to YouTube and aired over local radio stations. The ads were on behalf of a national group known as the Conservative Response Team, which says it has donors in Dallas but whose leadership operates in other states.

According to its Form 990—which it first filed with the Internal Revenue Service in 2015 as a 501(c)(4) social action group—it is technically based in Kansas City, Missouri, where its treasurer is located. Its president is the longtime Republican operative Rick Shaftan, who lives in North Carolina. Shaftan noted that it “doesn’t have a storefront” and operates across the country. The Conservative Response Team first arrived in Dallas when the City Council began discussing the removal of Confederate statues. The group bought radio ads maligning the council for its decision to bring down the Robert E. Lee statue in his namesake park.

In an interview, Shaftan said that the statues were why the group—which, on its Facebook page, declares its intent to “fight back anywhere, anytime against leftist kooks who want to attack our values”—stuck around for the bond package. On Election Day today, the group made unfounded allegations that Mayor Mike Rawlings was closing polling places. There is no proof that this occurred.

“The city has all this money to take down statues, so they clearly don’t need the money for the other stuff. That’s what our position is,” he said. “Especially because they’re going to take down more statues, right? They need the money to take down new statues, rename streets, parks, everything, schools—they need money for that.”
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(1) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1MgVlpmtvH7rUTLYt8t6bA