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RandySF

(70,839 posts)
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 06:36 PM Mar 2023

WI-SEN: Potential candidate (R) once said "Something must be done with this Muslim crap"

WisPolitics first reported Tuesday that Wisconsin businessman Scott Mayer is contemplating running against Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) in 2024. The potential candidate would have to reckon with his history of racist, Islamophobic social media posts.

In a bizarre 2015 Facebook post, Mayer put up a location tag of him at a Waffle House in northwest South Carolina, with the caption “How long is the world going to continue to put up with this Muslim crap. [sic] We must do something about it.”

Another post attacking Muslims went up in 2016, which was a Tweety Bird meme which read “So what if Muslims are ‘offended’!! Over 3,000 Americans were murdered on 9/11 in the name of Islam and we’re supposed to cater to them? I don’t think so!!”



https://heartlandsignal.com/2023/03/17/potential-wisconsin-senate-candidate-scott-mayer-in-islamophobic-2015-post-something-must-be-done-with-this-muslim-crap/

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WI-SEN: Potential candidate (R) once said "Something must be done with this Muslim crap" (Original Post) RandySF Mar 2023 OP
What happened to Wis? Wasn't it's SWP... brush Mar 2023 #1
Largely the fault of my generation ( just turned 60) yourout Mar 2023 #2
Joe McCarthy was from Wisconsin. RandySF Mar 2023 #4
I don't know how large Wisconsin's Muslim community is. Aristus Mar 2023 #3

brush

(57,763 posts)
1. What happened to Wis? Wasn't it's SWP...
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 07:08 PM
Mar 2023

once pretty active and successful? Now it seems to be getting redder and redder.

yourout

(8,096 posts)
2. Largely the fault of my generation ( just turned 60)
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 07:30 PM
Mar 2023

Not sure why but they went hardcore right wing and gave us Ronnie Reagan and the bushes and Trump.
Not to mention snotty Scotty Walker and Glen grothman and a whole host of right wing nut jobs at the local level.
Then they Gerry meandered it so there's no chance in hell of taking back the state senate or assembly until the maps are straightened out.

Aristus

(68,456 posts)
3. I don't know how large Wisconsin's Muslim community is.
Sat Mar 18, 2023, 07:56 PM
Mar 2023

But if it’s larger than Tammy Baldwin’s most recent margin of victory, this shithead is toast.

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