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Republican Steve King ousted from House panels over race remarks

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46872613

US Republican Steve King has been stripped of his congressional committee seats over comments he made about white supremacy.

Republican leaders in the US House of Representatives voted to remove the Iowa congressman from the Judiciary, Agriculture and Small Business panels.
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My question is why this avowed bigot has stayed in these assignments for all these years.
 
Good for the Republican Senate. I hope they did it out of ethics, and not just for optics.
 
Good for the Republican Senate. I hope they did it out of ethics, and not just for optics.

Perhaps a little of both?
 
He should be forced to change his name because every time I see him in a thread, I think of Stephen King.

lol
 
King believed it was his time to safely come out of the closet so much that he could actually, in words, defend white supremacy. King will serve as a reminder to other Republicans that you can be a white supremacist, you can say and repeat white supremacist rhetoric, and you can push for white supremacist policies. You can, like the current President, blow all the white supremacist dog whistles in the universe...but you can't actually say the words, "Hi, I'm a white supremacist and white supremacy is super cool."
 
He should be forced to change his name because every time I see him in a thread, I think of Steven King.

lol

Stephen King has already voiced that wish.
 
King believed it was his time to safely come out of the closet so much that he could actually, in words, defend white supremacy. King will serve as a reminder to other Republicans that you can be a white supremacist, you can say and repeat white supremacist rhetoric, and you can push for white supremacist policies. You can, like the current President, blow all the white supremacist dog whistles in the universe...but you can't actually say the words, "Hi, I'm a white supremacist and white supremacy is super cool."

King is the perfect example of how Trump enables White Supremacists. They feel "comfortable" coming out now that Trump is president.
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46872613

US Republican Steve King has been stripped of his congressional committee seats over comments he made about white supremacy.

Republican leaders in the US House of Representatives voted to remove the Iowa congressman from the Judiciary, Agriculture and Small Business panels.
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My question is why this avowed bigot has stayed in these assignments for all these years.

Wow, looks like the shelf life of tolerance of knuckle-draggers like King and Gohmert is coming to an end. Finally!
 
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