Kan. GOP candidate's campaign links to racist blog

[jaysunb]

Republican congressional candidate Mike Pompeo apologized Thursday after his campaign posted on its Twitter feed and Facebook page a link to a blog that uses a racial slur to refer to his Democratic opponent and calls President Barack Obama an "evil muslim communist USURPER."

Pompeo, who is running for Kansas' 4th Congressional District, said a staffer, who he declined to identify other than saying it was the campaign's communications director, posted the link to the wrong Google alert on Wednesday before the campaign realized the mistake and removed it an hour later.

Pompeo apologized to his Democratic opponent, Raj Goyle, by phone Thursday morning, and posted an apology on both websites in which he said he spent a "great deal of time visiting with the staff person who inadvertently posted the link."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100813/ap_on_el_ho/us_kansas_house_racist_blog

[patrice]

1. Pompeo quoted a retired Marine gunny who was campaigning for him on Newsvine, in uniform.

Gunny Pinkstaff's Newsvine page has since been deleted. It was full of hate language and the guy's picture is of him in uniform.

Pompeo used the Marine Corp politically and created a situation in which the U.S. Marine Corp was perceived as hating non-Christians, a rather dangerous sort of environment for our men and women IN HARM'S WAY in Iraq & Afghanistan.

[ThomCat]

5. I thougth that would be against regulations.

I thought you aren't allowed to go to events to express political views while in uniform, so you also aren't allowed to be pictured in uniform in a way that expresses political views. A blog would definitely qualify. I would think he should be out of uniform on that blog if it has views not approved by a C.O.

[patrice]

2. Please contribute to Pompeo's Democratic opponent Raj Goyle.

http://goyleforcongress.com/

Also please share this link.

Thanks very much for doing the right thing.

p

[jaysunb]

6. Done

:hi:

[MuseRider]

3. Raj Goyle is a great guy.

If you care to donate to him please. He is a big friend of the gay community and has been there when we needed him when seeking legislation.

This is not my district. Anyone who is in the district know how he is doing? I can't imagine he is beatable but then I really do not know.

[zbdent]

4. "evil muslim communist USURPER." ...

but isn't a competing talking point that Obama is exactly the same as Bush? So Bush is an "evil muslim communist USURPER"???

I get massive headaches trying to follow RW logic ...