{"id":32475,"date":"2018-05-18T12:52:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T19:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32475"},"modified":"2018-05-18T12:52:51","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T19:52:51","slug":"republicans-on-parade-5-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/18\/republicans-on-parade-5-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade &#8211; 5\/18\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/RepublicansOnParade2.jpg\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the one hundred eighteenth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican gubernatorial candidate for Georgia, Michael Williams. He is so honored for the Republican way he joins immigration with hate and racism.<\/font> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0518Williams\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0518Williams\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/0518Williams.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"203\" \/>Fox host Martha MacCallum made it clear that Georgia&#8217;s \u201cDeportation Bus Tour\u201d candidate Michael Williams is not on the network\u2019s roster of preferred candidates (unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newshounds.us\/fox_news_blatantly_working_elect_trump_lackey_desantis_florida_governor_050918\" target=\"_blank\">Ron DeSantis<\/a>) but his racist-Republican message still got a warm welcome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/cracker-barrel-to-racist-republican-get-your-deportation-bus-off-my-lawn\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Beast<\/a> has a good run-down of Williams\u2019 gubernatorial candidacy:<\/p>\n<p>Michael Williams, a Georgia state senator, is currently polling dead last in the state\u2019s Republican primary. With the primary next week, Williams is trying to rally racists by hosting a \u201cDeportation Bus Tour\u201d from a converted school bus plastered with slogans like \u201c<strong>FILL THIS BUS WITH ILLEGALS<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>DANGER! MURDERERS, RAPISTS, KIDNAPPERS, CHILD MOLESTORS [sic], AND OTHER CRIMINALS ON BOARD<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/cracker-barrel-to-racist-republican-get-your-deportation-bus-off-my-lawn\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Beast<\/a> also noted, Cracker Barrel made it clear that the chain wants nothing to do with Williams who has scheduled at least 10 stops at various restaurants around the stat&#8230;[<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2018\/05\/gop-candidate-michael-williams-and-his\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/b6BACA5j\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Look at the way he stereotypes all undocumented people, the vast majority of which are just peaceful workers trying to find a better life, as the most vile kinds of people.&#160; That earned him a parade.&#160; The only name he failed to call them is a name far more vile than any of the ones he used: Republican.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the one hundred eighteenth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Republican gubernatorial candidate for Georgia, Michael Williams. He is so honored for the Republican way he joins immigration with hate and racism. Fox host Martha MacCallum made it clear <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/18\/republicans-on-parade-5-18-2018\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32475","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\/32475","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=32475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}