Posted on 06/12/2014 4:01:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A leading supporter of Illinois Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn said that Republican voters are backers of the Ku Klux Klan and members of militias, according to local reports.
Outspoken Chicago Pastor Walter “Slim” Coleman made the controversial remarks while standing beside Quinn, who was present to receive the reverend’s endorsement.
Quinn’s support for divisive and racist rhetoric has been causing his campaign problems. The governor’s campaign came under fire in April after it tweeted messages urging backers to read an article comparing black Republican voters to Jews who collaborated with the Nazis.
Quinn stood by silently as Coleman compared Republicans to KKK members and called Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner “evil.”
“That’s an unlikely voter that began way back in 1961 and ’62 with the Ku Klux Klan, that grew up through the militias, that came outta the militias and, and, and—came in to call themselves conservatives, and then came in to call themselves Republican,” Coleman said, according to radio station WBEZ.
“That’s a movement that brings an evil that we have got to stop,” Coleman reportedly said to applause from those in attendance. “Our fight—our fight is not—our fight is not with flesh and blood. Our fight is with powers and principalities. And there’s an evil—there’s an evil that a candidate may seem that he’s harmless is gonna raise up in this state and we’re not gonna let it happen!”
The remarks quickly sparked a backlash.
However, Quinn refused to address the controversy. Instead, he “disappeared out the back door” of the Chicago hotel where the event took place, according to WBEZ.
As the backlash intensified, a Quinn campaign spokesman was forced to address the controversy
“We couldn’t disagree more strongly, and the governor believes this rhetoric has no place in politics,” a campaign spokesperson told WBEZ.
Quinn has been suffering in the polls lately, trailing Rauner by at least 10 points, according to the most recent polls.
Started in 1983 by Pastor Emma Lozano and her husband, the Reverend Walter “Slim” Coleman, Centros Sin Fronteras formed from tragedy. Lozano’s brother, Rudy Lozano, a union coordinator and popular leader in immigration reform, was * assassinated that year. “After his assassination, I felt like I was destined to try to continue in his path and follow my parents’ example of family and unity,” Lozano said.
* gang warfare and the fact that Lozano a well known community leader had been retaliated against because of two Latin Kings that worked on his aldermanic campaign passing out literature.
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Repubs need to respond forcefully to crap like this. My hey should get out there and publicly ridicule that POS.
There’s a good reason the word “democrat” rests directly between “demented” and “demonic” in the Webster’s. these people are simply beyond explanation.
My hey=they
Damned “auto-correct”
Plus, I have to find time to kick old ladies down stairs, mug homosexuals, laugh at crippled people, and light my cigars with c-notes. And there are only so many hours in a day!
I hate Illinois Nazis.
This from the liberal democrat state with maybe the highest murder rate in the country?
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