'Pro-family leaders' ask House GOP leader to reinstate Rep. Steve King's committee memberships

[octoberlib]

group of about 200 people calling themselves “pro-family leaders” is calling for Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to be reinstated to the committee assignments he lost as part of the fallout last month for reportedly questioning whether the term “white nationalist” should be offensive.

A letter to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — which King shared Tuesday on Twitter — also asks for McCarthy to publicly apologize for the punishment, calling it a rush to judgment.

“Unlike North Korea, we in the United States are ‘innocent until proven guilty’ and hold to the principles of Western Civilization, as Rep. King so admirably does,” the letter says.

Its signatories include former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), evangelical author James Dobson and William Owens, founder and president of the Coalition of African American Pastors.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pro-family-leaders-ask-house-gop-leader-to-reinstate-rep-steve-kings-committee-memberships/2019/02/12/5bcc47ce-2ef3-11e9-86ab-5d02109aeb01_story.html

[Dennis Donovan]

1. "Pro-Family" group photo

[octoberlib]

2. Religious fundamentalists are the worst people on earth.

[CatMor]

3. Those people have no shame ....

doesn't surprise me coming from Tom DeLay.

[Doremus]

4. Pro-family leaders like convicted felon Tom DeLay? That's the rightwing for you. nt

[Gothmog]

5. This is a dumb request from a bunch of racists

[gopiscrap]

6. fuck that

[SWBTATTReg]

7. Hypocrites. And the rest of us in America don't have families too, don't deserve any respect, ...

It's not all about you 200 ... what about the rest of us, the millions of us who are constantly offended by King's racist and bigoted rhetoric?

[Vogon_Glory]

8. I Already Had A Low Opinion Of These People But

I never thought they’d be this stupid. I’d have thought that if they wanted to keep potential voters interested in their social agenda as the electorate changes from overwhelmingly Euro-American to something more blended, they would have quietly, carefully backed away from Steve King and his unapologetic white supremacist associations But nope, they’re still acting like it’s a white electorate.

Fools.

And their movement’s successor leadership will be running around like headless chickens wondering why the majority of voters will see them with revulsion.

I am proud to be part of the movement opposing these reactionaries, and I’m grateful that they’re this clueless.