Aide Demands Missouri GOP Chair's Resignation Over Candidate's Suicide

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

A spokesman for late Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich (R) told local news outlets Tuesday that the state's Republican Party leader, whom Schweich had accused of orchestrating an anti-Semitic "whisper campaign" against him, should resign his post.

Spokesman Spence Jackson made his comments following the funeral service for Schweich, who was a leading Republican candidate for Missouri governor.

Jackson appeared to be the first person to publicly call for the resignation of John Hancock, the newly-elected state GOP chairman. Schweich had planned to publicly accuse Hancock of telling people that he was Jewish the same day he committed suicide.

Jessica Machetta @jmachetta
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Auditor Schweich's press secretary Spence Jackson tells press John Hancock needs to step down as party chair. @kmoxnews

12:56 PM - 3 Mar 2015

At the funeral service on Tuesday, former U.S. Sen. John Danforth (R-MO) lambasted Hancock, without mentioning him by name, in a eulogy for Schweich. "Words do hurt. Words can kill," Danforth said. "That has been proven right here in our home state."

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tom-schweich-gop-leader-call-resignation

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[KamaAina]

1. Good luck with that!

[lark]

2. Eating their own,

how pathetic and racist they are.

[vkkv]

3. What a screwed up political "party".

"The first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the first part of the party of the first part shall be known in this contract"