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Tea Partiers Livid State GOP Wants Clarification On White Supremacy Ties
Mississippi Tea Partiers want the state's Republican Party chairman to resign for calling on state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R-MS) to clarify whether he planned to be the keynote speaker at a pro-Second Amendment event and tea party rally that featured a segregationist vendor.
The call for state party chairman Joe Nosef to resign comes in response to Nosef telling MSNBC that McDaniel needed to clarify whether he had planned to attend the event or not. Nosef, on the Paul Gallo Show, also suggested that McDaniel could cost Republicans a Senate seat. McDaniel is running to unseat Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS).
"It is inappropriate for Nosef to make such claims given his role as Chairman of the MS GOP. Accordingly, Joe Nosef should resign from his position as Chairman of the MS GOP effective immediately," the Mississippi Tea Party said in a statement.
Nosef, in a statement to the Clarion Ledger of Mississippi, said he would not resign:
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MisterP
(23,730 posts)but to move the whole spectrum leftwards and mark out that segregationism and secession are unacceptable (it's not like the Dems will do any of the leftward pulling these days, except maybe plastering over reactionary policy with still-revolutionary rhetoric, like the PRI)