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Florida Candidate Uses racial Slur
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Florida Candidate Uses racial Slur
Ron DeSantis clarifies after taking heat for warning Florida voters not to 'monkey this up'
DeSantis’ office dismissed claims that his remarks had a racial dimension as “absurd.”
“Ron DeSantis was obviously talking about Florida not making the wrong decision to embrace the socialist policies that Andrew Gillum espouses,” spokesman Stephen Lawson said in a statement. “To characterize it as anything else is absurd.”
Ron Desantis takes a page out of the Trump playbook.
He offers an explicit racial slur for the pleasure of The Base; then tries to tell the rest of us that we're crazy. We didn't really hear what we just heard. 
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Re: Florida Candidate Uses racial Slur
Ron DeSantis Was Reportedly an Admin of Racist Facebook Page
Click on a page called "Tea Party," which boasts 94,000 followers and claims to be "the oldest and largest #TeaParty group on Facebook," and you'll find that one of the first posts this morning is a glaringly racist meme showing side-by-side photos of Melania Trump and a heavily Photoshopped Michelle Obama with the headline "Make the White House Beautiful Again."
"Who's the guy on the right?" one commenter jokes about the doctored photo of Mrs. Obama, and another responds with a homophobic meme about President Obama.
The racist post is par for the course for the page, which has also shared at least six posts since Tuesday supporting Florida's new GOP gubernatorial nominee, Ron DeSantis. Perhaps that's because, until reporters began asking questions yesterday, DeSantis was reportedly one of 52 listed administrators of the offensive page.
DeSantis' affiliation with the Facebook group was turned up by Natalie Martinez, a reporter with Media Matters, who noted that numerous other GOP candidates are also admins, including Arizona Senate candidate Kelly Ward and Virginia Senate candidate Corey Stewart.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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