Posted on 11/05/2021 11:50:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A truck driver who ousted the powerful New Jersey Senate president in the election previously posted online calling Islam “a false religion,” comparing vaccine mandates to the Holocaust and defending rioters at the Capitol.
Republican Edward Durr apologized on Friday after media outlets highlighted the posts. His victory over Steve Sweeney, widely regarded as the second-most powerful Democrat in state government, in Tuesday’s election shocked the state’s political establishment. Durr spent a paltry sum on his campaign.
On Thursday and Friday, media reports highlighted posts Durr had made on Twitter and Facebook, including some critical of immigrants, boasting of defying state COVID-19 mask mandates, and attacking female Democratic elected officials like Sen. Elizabeth Warren and then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
Durr issued a statement Thursday night to radio station WHYY, and Friday to the website New Jersey Globe apologizing for the posts.
“I’m a passionate guy and I sometimes say things in the heat of the moment,” Durr said in identical comments to both outlets. “If I said things in the past that hurt anybody’s feelings, I sincerely apologize.”
Durr did not respond to phone and email messages from The Associated Press seeking comment Friday.
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Uh oh. Never apologize. Ever. It’s like trying to outrun a bear.
He’s already cowering to the mob?
I see few are coming to his defense. Our country is effectively spineless.
They're slipping...
What's the problem? Sounds like my kind of guy.
Sigh...
I love him even more. Now quit apologizing
Sorry AP. Finding mean tweets does not let you voice the election.
This is just vindictive BS by the media about a result that was “unexpected”.
I didn’t see anything the man said that was particularly offensive, other than comparing getting marked for vaccinated with the arm stamping of the victims of the Holocaust (and even there, he was making a point but using something very tragic and offlimits, there was no anti-semitism I saw in the statement). As far as criticizing Liz Warren, the phony Indian who got benefits through Affirmative Action intended for real Native Americans and other Dem liberals, I hope he continues his criticism.
voice >> void
That race was such a lock it wasn’t even on their radar.
I didn’t get that from his statement. He said that he sometimes says things in the heat of the moment that he comes to regret in calmer times. Don’t we all?
I don’t see that he walked back or even responded to the specifics of the ‘charges’. He just said that if he hurt someone’s feeling, he was sorry.
The real reason Democrat Sweeney lost was that he felt he was facing no real opposition. He refused to pay the money needed to activate the Democratic fraud apparatus in his district. First honest election there in memory. Not a good idea to be arrogant, corrupt and cheap. Effective fraud costs money.
After the past couple of years of their relentless BS, the Democrats are just going to have to face facts.
Pretty much everyone who isn’t deeply disturbed hates them.
I wonder if the media will allow the election of Mr Durr to move forward???
The more I read, the more I liked this guy. That is, until he apologized.
Never apologize because weakness just bloodies the water and draws more sharks.
He should probably read what the mob was saying about him before they even knew about the posts. That should eliminate the need to apologize.
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