Before we get what went down with the Prince William County Republican Party, a quick reminder about who their nominee for Chairman of the Board of County Supervisors is: yes, this guy:
- Since the WaPo Failed to Publish Them, Here’s a Sampling of Prince William County Republican Chairman Candidate John Gray’s Offensive Tweets
- DPVA Demands Prince William County Republicans Call on John Gray to Drop Out of PWC Board Chair Race After Revelation of Racist, Homophobic and Threatening Tweets
- Video: Sexual Assault Survivor Condemns John Gray, Says He Is “The One Who Should Make You Want to Vomit – NOT Us!” (Supervisor Caddigan (R) calls Gray a “disgrace,” says he’s “lost the election”; Supervisor Nohe (R) says Gray shows a “complete lack of judgement”)
- GOP’s Prince William County Board Chair Nominee Campaigns with “Pizzagate”/”Alt-Right” Conspiracy Theorist
- BREAKING: Huge Upset – and Huge Debacle – as Prince William County Republicans Do Their Best to Commit Political Suicide (“Yep, they nominated an unelectable, far-right extremist over popular, relatively moderate Supervisor Martin Nohe”)
Now, you might be thinking to yourself, what kind of political party would ever nominate someone this extreme, this crazy, this bigoted, etc? Very simple: today’s Trump Republican Party, in this case the Prince William County version of the Trump Republican Party. Check out the following tweets – as well as video – from last night’s County Board forum. As you’ll see, Gray REALLY starts going off the rails starting at around 53:45, when he’s first asked about his offensive/racist/etc. tweets, then when the candidates are asked which national figure they’d compare themselves to, and after Wheeler responds, “definitely not Trump…if I had someone to look up to, it might be Barack Obama.” On the tweets, Gray gives a lame excuse that supposedly they were actually just “retweets,” which is both irrelevant and also highly misleading, since Gray commented his deep thoughts along with many of those retweets. According to Gray:
“Barack Obama had plenty of scandals; if you don’t think Benghazi was a scandal, then we need to redefine the word ‘scandal’. ‘Fast-and-Furious’…There is no administration that can go without a scandal. To say that Barack Obama didn’t have scandals is being very short-sighted.”
Of course, that’s all complete horse manure. In fact, about the worst “scandals” in the Obama administration were bogus, ginned-up faux “scandals” by the right-wing echo chamber, such as when Obama wore a tan suit (SCANDAL!), when he used a teleprompter, when he used Dijon mustard on a hot dog, when he went on vacation and/or golfed, and other such idiocy. Of course, what the right wingnuts found *truly* scandalous was that a black man named Barack Hussein Obama was president at all; that’s what they could never get over, and clearly what John Gray can’t wrap his racist-retweeting brain around. As for the Prince William County GOP, they took to…yep, Twitter (natch!) to spew out debunked conspiracy theories about President Obama. These people…ugh.
With that, just a reminder that if you live in Prince William County, make sure that John Gray and the entire Republican ticket goes down in flames on 11/5 by voting Democratic up and down the ballot – for Ann Wheeler as County Board Chair; Babur Lateef as Chair of the School Board; Josh King as Sheriff; Amy Ashworth as Commonwealth’s Attorney; Kenny Boddye as Occoquan District Supervisor; Raheel Sheikh as Coles District Supervisor; Maggie Hansford as Brentsville District Supervisor; Danny Funderburk as Gainesville District Supervisor; Andrea Bailey as Potomac District Supervisor; Victor Angry as Neabsco District Supervisor; Margaret Franklin as Woodbridge District Supervisor, and of course Democrats for State Senate and House of Delegates.
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