STEVE KING PROMOTES
HATEFUL COMMENTS
ON HIS TAXPAYER-FUNDED
WEBSITE
IDP
Chair Calls
on King to Take Down
Comments
Des
Moines
– Steve King continues to do wrong by the
people of
Iowa
by making
outrageous and hateful statements and then
promoting them on his taxpayer-funded
website.
Congressman King
recently
made national headlines for controversial
comments he directed toward Senator
Barack Obama during an interview with the
Spencer Daily Reporter. King said in
the interview that, "if (Obama) is elected
president, the radical Islamists, the
al-Qaida ... would be dancing in the streets
in greater numbers than they did on
Sept. 11 because they would declare victory in
this war on terror.”
He
went on to say that Obama’s “middle name does
matter…they’ll be dancing in the
streets because of his middle name.
They’ll be dancing in the streets because
of who his father
was…”
Not only has King
failed to apologize for his outlandish
remarks, he is currently promoting them
on his congressional website, which is funded
by American
taxpayers.
“Steve King is
using his taxpayer-funded website to promote
his hateful comments toward a
Democratic Presidential candidate,” said Iowa
Democratic Party Chair Scott
Brennan. “King needs to stop doing his
politicking from his government office
and get back to the work he was elected to
do. He very well may be in violation
of House ethics rules by promoting politically
charged comments on his
congressional
site.”
“This kind of rhetoric is out of touch
with the
mainstream values of everyday Iowans,” Brennan
added. “It is time for King to
take these inappropriate remarks off of his
congressional website. Taxpaying
Iowans deserve better.”
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