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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
Mon Mar 26, 2018, 08:52 PM Mar 2018

Asshole Steve King mocks Emma Gonzalez's Cuban heritage

Steve King's campaign criticizes Parkland survivor Emma Gonzalez

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN

Updated 7:56 PM ET, Mon March 26, 2018


Washington (CNN)Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King is facing heat after someone managing his campaign's Facebook page posted a meme on Sunday criticizing a Parkland student for donning a patch of the Cuban flag.

"This is how you look when you claim Cuban heritage yet don't speak Spanish and ignore the fact that your ancestors fled the island when the dictatorship turned Cuba into a prison camp, after removing all weapons from its citizens; hence their right to self defense," the meme said alongside an image of Cuban-American Emma Gonazlez, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, speaking at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington on Saturday.

* read the rest at the link.....https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/26/politics/steve-king-facebook-post-emma-gonzalez/index.html



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exboyfil

(17,862 posts)
1. This coming from a guy who has the battle flag
Mon Mar 26, 2018, 09:04 PM
Mar 2018

of traitors who killed 3,000 Iowans and wounded 8,000 Iowans on his desk.

Mariana

(14,856 posts)
3. I'm sure Rep. King's ancestors
Mon Mar 26, 2018, 09:07 PM
Mar 2018

left their home countries for completely different reasons. None of them left to escape oppression.

What a dumbass.

LonePirate

(13,419 posts)
6. You mean the Confederacy loving racist Steve King from Iowa?
Mon Mar 26, 2018, 09:15 PM
Mar 2018



Iowa Starting Line @IAStartingLine

No surprise, but this Starting Line piece of Steve King having a Confederate Flag on his desk is getting lots of hits today following his criticism of Parkland survivor’s Cuba flag on her jacket

https://iowastartingline.com/2016/07/10/is-that-yep-steve-king-has-a-confederate-flag-on-his-desk/


I don't remember Iowa being part of the Confederacy but Steve King sure thinks it was.

TomSlick

(11,098 posts)
9. I give up, why would a Congressman from Iowa have a confederate flag on his desk?
Mon Mar 26, 2018, 09:46 PM
Mar 2018

My memory is that Iowans fought with the Union.

Surely, it's not just to appeal to racists.

Jack-o-Lantern

(967 posts)
10. Confederate flag on his desk??
Mon Mar 26, 2018, 09:48 PM
Mar 2018

That flag was the battle flag of the treasonous army who attacked the the United States of America, whose brave defenders of our country flew the American flag.
I guess Trump’s ass-kissers applaud his treason as well as their own.

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