Maryland Republican makes hateful comments

[KingFlorez]

and the Repugs have a nerve to be attacking Dean over nothing and this is worse than anything he every said. Thursday, May 26, 2005

http://www.mddems.org/index.php?display=ReleaseDetails&id=535292&PHPSESSID=9348a152f6784023c845f11e6da0c627

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 26, 2005



DEMOCRATIC LEADER CALLS ON MARYLAND REPUBLICANS TO DISAVOW ‘HATE SPEECH’



Author Michael Zak, keynote speaker at the Calvert County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day dinner last Saturday carried a divisive, deceitful and desperate message.



“Radical Republican rhetoric has hit a new low,” said Terry Lierman, Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party, responding to Zak’s comments at the dinner, which included his calling the Ku Klux Klan the “Hamas of the Democratic Party” and claiming that “mastery over blacks has always been Democratic policy.” The inflammatory remarks were reported in an article in the May 25, 2005 edition of the Calvert Recorder.



Lierman is calling on the Maryland Republican leaders who attended the dinner, including House Minority Whip Anthony O’Donnell, Calvert County Commission President David Hale and St. Mary’s County Commission President Tommy McKay to disavow Zak’s “dangerous and deceptive hate speech, designed to divide our state and our country along racial lines.”



“Southern Maryland’s leading Republicans have a responsibility to repudiate the irresponsible and despicable words of Michael Zak,” said Lierman, noting that Hale and McKay have both expressed a desire to seek higher office in next year’s elections, and that voters “demand and deserve honesty and integrity from their leaders, who should concentrate on bringing people together, not tearing them apart.”



Zak is the author of “Back to the Basics for the Republican Party,” a book that is being touted by right wing Republicans around the country.



“This is cynical, scary stuff,” said Lierman. “If Republicans actually cared about promoting opportunity and prosperity for African-Americans, they would champion public education, job training, minority business growth and adequate, affordable health care.”

[Catch22Dem]

1. That's fucking unreal

I assume I won't find it on MSNBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, FAUX, or anything else will I.

[bluestateguy]

2. The Klan at the RNC

True the Klan originated in the Old South, where most of the members were Democrats, but when the Klan surged to it's greatest membership between 1915-1925, the organization was strong within both parties. In northern states during those years, most Klansmen were Republican. In the South being Klan meant hating blacks, and most members were Democrats. In the North, being Klan meant hating Catholics, Jews and non-Anglo-Saxon immigrants, and they were mostly Republican. In the early 1920's the Klan, led by D.C. Stephenson, took over the state government of Indiana as Republicans. Today most Klansmen who vote in elections prefer the Republican Party.

[BattyDem]

3. The Dems need to keep track of things like this ...

so that whenever a reporter hits them with a "nasty" Dean comment, they can say, "Never mind, Dean. At a Republican Party dinner, Michael Zak said that the Ku Klux Klan is the Hamas of the Democratic Party and that mastery over blacks has always been Democratic policy." :evilgrin:

Seriously, the Dems need to stop playing defense all the time and develop a strong offense!

[Nikki Stone 1]

4. Is there no limit to what a neocon can say?

"...which included his calling the Ku Klux Klan the “Hamas of the Democratic Party”


That sounds like hate speech to me.

[BattyDem]

5. No silly, it's only hate speech if the words ...

"white, Christian Republican" are included. :eyes:

[Nikki Stone 1]

8. Oh, I forgot that part. Only White Christian Republicans can be bashed

:kick:

[KingFlorez]

6. It is hate speech

The top Democrat leaders should be all over this, but some of them seem to afraid to speak up. I'd have this comment in every political ad against the Repugs in Maryland.

[BattyDem]

7. Ask Biden. He's not afraid to speak up against hate speech ...

Oh, wait a minute ... a REPUBLICAN said this. Never mind. :eyes: