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Iowa Democratic Party Media Center
STEVE KING PROMOTES
HATEFUL COMMENTS
ON HIS TAXPAYER-FUNDED
WEBSITE
IDP
Chair Calls
on King to Take Down
Comments
Congressman
King recently made national headlines for
controversial comments he directed toward
Senator Barack Obama during an interview with
the Spencer Daily Reporter. King said in
the interview that, "if (Obama) is elected
president, the radical Islamists, the al-Qaida
... would be dancing in the streets in greater
numbers than they did on Sept. 11 because they
would declare victory in this war on terror.”
He went on to say that Obama’s “middle
name does matter…they’ll be dancing in the
streets because of his middle name.
They’ll be dancing in the streets because of
who his father was…”
Not only has King
failed to apologize for his outlandish remarks,
he is currently promoting them on his
congressional website, which is funded by
American taxpayers.
“Steve King is using
his taxpayer-funded website to promote his
hateful comments toward a Democratic
Presidential candidate,” said Iowa Democratic
Party Chair Scott Brennan. “King needs to
stop doing his politicking from his government
office and get back to the work he was elected
to do. He very well may be in violation
of House ethics rules by promoting politically
charged comments on his congressional
site.”
“This kind of rhetoric is out of
touch with the mainstream values of everyday
Iowans,” Brennan added. “It is time for King to
take these inappropriate remarks off of his
congressional website. Taxpaying Iowans
deserve
better.”
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