Posted on 06/07/2016 8:33:21 PM PDT by Innovative
A senior member of the Iowa Senate says he has dropped his Republican Party affiliation in protest of what he calls Donald Trump’s “bigotry,” in light of the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s comments about a federal court judge’s ethnicity.
Sen. David Johnson, from heavily Republican northwest Iowa, told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that “somebody had to make a statement.”
Johnson, an 18-year state legislator from Ocheyedan, was referring to the billionaire’s allegation that U.S. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel was biased in his decision against the now-defunct Trump University, a business owned by Trump, because he disagrees with Trump’s position on immigration. Gonzalo is of Mexican descent but was born in Indiana.
Trump has called for building a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border and has broadly described people from Mexico in the United States illegally as having unlawful intentions.
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If Johnson is resigning from the Party, then he needs to resign his seat that belongs to the Party and let a replacement take his place. He used the Party’s money and influence to get and stay elected so he needs to resign and he can then run as any party he wants.
Thus is the final GOP push against Trump. They’re going to try to rob him at the convention I’d they can generate traction with the racism charge.
Good. The enemies keep identifying themselves.
This is an organized attempt to derail Trump by those who have been in control of the Republican party. What they don’t realize is that they can never put the genie back in the bottle, because they have been revealed. If Trump dropped out tomorrow it wouldn’t go back to what they want it to go back to. Unbelievable that establishment Republicans are working with the left to use the race card on their own nominee. Makes me sick.
Lame.
Not the same David Johnson. The senator in question is about 150 miles from Ankeny, Iowa, which is a booming Des Moines suburb.
I expect many Catholic Republicans to distance themselves from Trump.
By the way, this Senator Johnson supported Rick Perry and then Carly Fiorina.
Rather vote for abortion Hillary?
Hasn’t stopped them from voting for Dems before!
Up yours.
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Your tagline. Knock it off. The presumptive nominee did because he knows it’s time to unify against the Hildebeast.
Any who continue to alienate the Cruzers are working get her elected.
STILL BUTTHURT hahahaha
He is fine with a racist group.
La Raza slogan: “Por La Raza todo, Fuera de La Raza nada”
“For the Race, everything, outside the Race, nothing”
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