GOP Lawmaker Tweets Out Reporter's Number After Questioning on Membership in Racist Facebook Group
Source: Mediaite
A Republican lawmaker tweeted out an Associated Press reporter’s cell phone number after he received a question about his involvement in a racist Facebook group.
AP reporter Ryan Foley emailed Iowa Rep. Rod Blum‘s press aide on Friday asking about the Congressman’s involvement in the “Tea Party” Facebook group, a group administered by Citizens for Trump National Tea Party Director Mike Michaels that regularly posts far-right conspiracy theories and racist posts.
Foley noted that Rep. Ron DeSantis had claimed he was not aware he was a member of group and Foley questioned what Blum’s explanation for his involvement may be.
Foley replied by tweeting out a screenshot of the request, leaving the reporter’s cell phone number at the bottom.
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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/gop-lawmaker-tweets-out-reporters-number-after-questioning-on-membership-in-racist-facebook-group/
Blum's tweet, which violates Twitter policy, is still there
https://twitter.com/RepRodBlum
despite lots of replies criticizing him for publishing that reporter's phone number.
= new reply since forum marked as read
"reprodblum
Miss Carol makes some great popcorn in Longworth basement!
#IA01"
Attendees hold up their red signs to show their disapproval of Rep. Rod Blum's, R-Iowa, answer to a question during a town hall at Dubuque Senior High School in Dubuque, Iowa, on Monday, May 8, 2017. (Eileen Meslar/Telegraph Herald via AP)
Iowa Rep. Rod Blum quits interview over town hall questions
By THOMAS BEAUMONT - Associated Press - Tuesday, May 9, 2017
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa Rep. Rod Blum stormed out of a TV interview when pressed about why he screens those who attend his public meetings. He then held a town hall, where he was booed and jeered by constituents angry over his vote to repeal the 2010 federal health care law.
The second-term Iowa Republican and member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus later said he had been “ambushed” by the television news reporter who was questioning him.
The televised exchange in front of a group of young schoolchildren and the contentious forum that followed at Dubuque Senior High School were a glimpse at the tension facing some House members, especially since last week’s vote to gut major portions of the Affordable Care Act, which is also known as Obamacare.
“I’m done … this is ridiculous,” Blum said two minutes into an interview with Cedar Rapids station KCRG which was shot during a visit to the Dubuque Dream Center, which helps poor, mostly black, children in Blum’s hometown of Dubuque.
Reporter Josh Scheinblum first asked Blum why he requires audience members at his public meetings to provide identification. Blum answered that it was to ensure they were from Iowa’s First District, a 20-county expanse of northern and eastern Iowa that also includes Cedar Rapids, Waterloo and wide tracts of farm land.
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More:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/9/iowa-rep-rod-blum-quits-interview-over-town-hall-q/
Many gather to protest gun violenceBy Sophia Schillinger on March 2, 2018
A crowd of enraged educators, legislators, students, etc. protested on Feb. 23 against gun control laws outside Republican U.S. Congressman Rod Blum’s office.
More:
http://hiline.cfschools.org/2018/03/many-gather-to-protest-gun-violence/
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Watching This Republican Liar Getting Torn Apart by His Constituents Is So Beautiful
Rafi Schwartz
5/09/17 9:16am
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Still, despite the one-two punch of walking out on a bunch of elementary school kids, and getting heckled by a high school auditorium of angry constituents, Blum attempted to put a good spin on his bad day, tweeting that his town hall was a “great discussion!”
More:
https://splinternews.com/watching-this-republican-liar-getting-torn-apart-by-his-1795045871
