{"id":2565,"date":"2010-08-14T01:34:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T08:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2010-08-14T01:34:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T08:34:43","slug":"yet-another-republican-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/14\/yet-another-republican-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Republican Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everywhere we turn, Republicans are putting their racism on display.  Here\u2019s the latest:<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"14pompeo\"<\/a> Congressional candidate Mike Pompeo issued an apology Thursday to opponent Raj Goyle, saying his campaign accidentally directed Pompeo supporters to an online blog post assailing Goyle’s religion and ethnic heritage. <\/p>\n

A Pompeo statement said his campaign office "inadvertently posted a link to a tremendously offensive blog post."<\/p>\n

The link was posted to Pompeo’s Facebook page on Wednesday and tweeted to his Twitter followers<\/strong>. Campaign officials deleted the social-networking links when they realized the content of the blog post. <\/p>\n

The post referred to Goyle, a U.S.-born citizen of Indian heritage, as "just another ‘turban topper’ we don’t need in Congress or any political office that deals with the U.S. Constitution, Christianity and the United States of America!!!"<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post was written by Bob Pinkstaff of Wichita, a retired Marine gunnery sergeant who claims the country is being invaded by Mexicans and Muslims and that only Christians should hold public office<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Pompeo and Goyle are locked in a close struggle for the 4th District congressional seat being vacated by Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <McClatchy DC<\/a>><\/p>\n

He says it was an accident.  If such things were rare occurrences in Republican circles, I might be inclined to give him to benefit of the doubt, but when virtually every day brings several new examples of Republicans acting on racial bigotry, it has to ge one of two things: a religious dogma or a Party strategy.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everywhere we turn, Republicans are putting their racism on display.  Here\u2019s the latest: Congressional candidate Mike Pompeo issued an apology Thursday to opponent Raj Goyle, saying his campaign accidentally directed Pompeo supporters to an online blog post assailing Goyle’s religion and ethnic heritage. A Pompeo statement said his campaign office "inadvertently posted a link to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}