Howze’s Response? It’s Not My Fault.
Last night, Politico reported on a treasure trove of racist, bigoted and conspiratorial social media posts and tweets from failing GOP candidate Ted Howze, running in California’s 10th District. It is reported that Howze described the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a rapist and a pedophile, mocked a survivor of the Parkland high school shooting, and accused a sitting Member of Congress of “hitting the crack pipe too hard,” along with various other racist and demeaning posts mocking individuals and communities of color.
POLITICO: GOP Candidate’s Posts Demeaned Muslims And Mocked Parkland Shooting Survivor
In May 2017, Howze posted a Facebook a photo of an advertisement offering a $130,000 reward for an answer to the question, “Do you know who murdered Seth Rich?” The caption written by Howze: “Hillary Clinton & John Podesta! Where can I collect the reward?”
In a Facebook post from April 2017, Howze wrote: “European leaders are willfully ceding their continent to religious extremists following the teachings of their Pedophile Prophet Mohamed.” In an earlier post, he appeared to make another vulgar reference to Muhammad, questioning how “media liberals” were not outraged by “the actions of members of the religion founded by a Rapist & Pedophile?”
[Howze] also retweeted an attack against David Hogg, the Parkland shooting survivor-turned-activist who has used his platform to advocate for stricter gun laws. “If you’ve been in a squirt gun fight, you’ve seen more ‘gun violence’ than David Hogg,” the tweet read.
[Howze] retweeted a post attacking Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian American organizer. If Sarsour is an average Muslim woman, the post read, “I finally understand why so many Muslim men would rather copulate with a goat!”
In one tweet, he said parents of children in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program were criminals. In another, he retweeted and added commentary to a tweet from Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) who was bemoaning that Dreamers “continue to live in fear of being taken away from their families and homes.” “We dream of returning them to Mexico where their actual families & homes are!” Howze wrote, with the hashtag #DeportThemAll.
In another tweet, Howze retweeted a tweet from Waters, the prominent Los Angeles representative, with the commentary: “How do we impeach say a Southern California Congresswoman who’s been hitting the crack pipe too hard?”
Shocking, right? Well, Howze admitted the accounts were his – and that he tried to hide the evidence by deleting the posts right before he decided to run in 2018 – but now claims they were posted without his knowledge…REALLY?
Maybe voters of the Central Valley would believe Howze if he hadn’t already been caught in lie after lie after lie. For those not keeping score at home: Howze has lied about not living in a gated community in Stockton and outside of the district, lied about Representative Harder’s record and service to Veterans, and led a coverup after one of his volunteers was caught on camera being arrested for pedophilia.
Does anyone really believe Howze let someone else go on racist rants from his social media accounts?
“It’s abundantly clear Howze is a bigot who has no business representing a diverse district like CA-10 in Congress. His failure to own up to his mistakes is not the leadership the Central Valley deserves and exemplary of the extreme and hateful rhetoric of Howze and his party. House Republicans and their Leadership who have expressed their support for Howze should have to answer for his racist rhetoric and hateful bigotry.” -DCCC Spokesperson Andy Orellana
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