Rep. Steve King of Iowa has a loong and disgusting history of making insulting and racist comments and statements.
Congressional Republican leaders agreed to strip Rep. Steve King of his positions on House committees Monday after he lamented in an interview with The New York Times that the term “white supremacist” had become offensive.
The Iowa Republican tried to clarify that he rejects white supremacy, but with his long history of creating uproar across the nation with his racially-charged comments, those objections largely fell on deaf ears.
While defending his remarks in the past, the Iowa Republican has claimed he is regularly misquoted and that he doesn’t trust most media outlets.
Before his recent re-election, King was under fire for reports that he met with members of the Freedom Party, a political organization founded by a former Nazi SS officer, during a trip to Europe funded in part by a Holocaust memorial nonprofit.
Some of the remarks he has made in the past……
Finally the GOP has grown a spine and stepped up and acting against King for his blatant racism…….
“This is not the first time we’ve heard these comments,” McCarthy said of King’s remarks. “That is not the party of Lincoln and it’s definitely not American.” McCarthy met with King for an hour before House GOP leaders decided to kick him off the committees. “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization—how did that language become offensive?” King wondered in a New York Times interview last week, in which he described the Democratic Party as “no country for white men.” After losing his committee seats, King claimed his remarks had been misunderstood and said McCarthy had made a “political decision that ignores the truth.” (King was defended by David Duke after a controversial tweet in 2017.)
After years of out right bigotry what made the House decide to do the right thing and punish this toad? Was this just the GOP trying to find a way to change the conversation?
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-steve-king-support-778658/
I am pleased they did act but it is not enough….there should be NO place for a bigot in the US House of Representatives. Period!