DCCC Spokesperson Drew Godinich released the following statement:
“We welcome Congressman Issa’s call for hearings into white supremacist organizations, and we also welcome any firsthand testimony that the Congressman has from the conference with the white supremacist hate group that he chose to headline last month. This is truly a new low in hypocrisy from Congressman Issa, and carjacking this important conversation to serve his own political ends while he’s facing an uphill re-election campaign is completely beneath the dignity of his office.”
SHOT: Darrell Issa calls on the House Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on white supremacists and other hate groups.
CHASER: Darrell Issa spoke at a conference hosted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled a hate group and white supremacist organization, LITERALLY last month:
OC Weekly: Move Over Jeff Sessions, Darrell Issa Also Appeared at “Hate Group” Event
http://www.ocweekly.com/news/issa-goes-to-fair-8255397
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Vista), whose congressional district stretches into South Orange County, was at the annual Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) Hold Their Feet to the Fire event in Washington, D.C. on June 28. The congressman has received a 100 percent rating from FAIR, but critics say the group has extensive ties to white nationalism and the race science known as eugenics.
John Tanton, who founded FAIR, once said, “I have come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist, it requires an European-American majority and a clear one at that.” Current president Dan Stein recently told The New York Times that Americans would “be perfectly fine if we didn’t have another immigrant for 50 years.”
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Right after right-wing radio host Bret Winterble talked live to Jihad Watch activist and Muslim basher Robert Spencer at the FAIR event on June 28, Issa was the guest.
“I think the voters need to understand the most important change occurred on January 20th,” Issa told the host, “because beginning on January 20th when Secretary Kelly … former General John Kelly, when he took over, what he did is that he started enforcing the law. And that’s why when people hear that criminal aliens are being picked up at their sentencing (inaudible) sanctuary cities and then they forget that the enforcement that going on, that what this administration doing is grabbing and deporting criminal aliens in order to make our communities safer.”
Issa was joined at Hold Their Feet to the Fire by Reps. Lou Barletta (R-Pennsyvania), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), Steve King (R-Iowa), Trump administration official Sebastian Gorka and author and sometimes Orange County Register columnist Michelle Malkin.