Posted on 09/08/2022 5:35:10 PM PDT by grundle
OLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Democrat vying to oust Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott is facing calls from within her own party to fold her campaign, following the publication of additional leaked audio in which she appears to make disparaging remarks about her constituents.
The calls for state Rep. Krystle Matthews to withdraw just two months ahead of the general election came Thursday in reaction to leaked audio published by conservative activist group Project Veritas of Matthews speaking to one of its members, without her knowledge.
Sitting in a restaurant, Matthews, who is Black, is heard saying that she represents a “mostly white” district, adding, of white voters: “I keep them right here — like under my thumbs. ... Otherwise, they get out of control — like kids.”
On Thursday, Democrats including gubernatorial nominee Joe Cunningham said he concurred with state Rep. Justin Bamberg, who in an op-ed published online called Matthews “toxic."
“If any of our white counterparts had said the same thing with regards to blacks, the minority community, including myself, would be up in arms calling for that member’s immediate resignation," Bamberg added.
In a statement provided to AP, Cunningham said that “there is absolutely no place in our political discourse” for Matthews' comments, adding that “the Democratic Party cannot and should not tolerate such behavior from our elected officials and candidates.”
State Sen. Brad Hutto, Democrats’ leader in that chamber — who was also his party’s nominee to challenge U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in 2014 — echoed Cunningham's comments about Matthews' Senate bid, telling AP, "When candidates of either party start making irresponsible statements, beyond what party they’re from, they need to reevaluate their candidacy, and that’s what needs to happen here.”
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Nothing to capitalize on. She’s no John Fetterman.
Classic
Note how the AP softens this by categorizing her remarks as “disparaging” toward her “constituents.”
Make this a white candidate saying the same thing about blacks, and the AP would be writing about “her racist remarks toward black voters in her district.”
This is the kind of thing that gives blacks a bad name in the professional world. When they act, think, and when they are honest, speak like entitled bishes.
It makes it a lot harder for the well tempered decent black folks who just want to be treated and seen like anyone else. People like Allen West. When people wear their race on their sleeve it makes everyone around them uncomfortable; even others of their own race. That includes whites of course.
Morgan Freeman said it best I think. The time has come and gone to stop mentioning race at all. Just eliminate it. This was many years ago. The problem is the dems insist on keeping blacks and other minorities on their entitled plantation which is really no different than the plantations their ancestors lived on as slaves.
There’s no question this woman has to drop out of the race now.
But...black folks can’t be racist. So, nothing to see here.
Scott has the seat won. Doesn’t matter what she does. Fan the flames? Waste of time.
“And let me tell you one thing, you oughta know who you’re dealing with, like…you gotta treat them [white people] like shit, like I mean that’s the only way they’ll respect you.”
Thanks more good news for our side.
Watch life’s losers on our side down play this good news!
BLM & 'white privilege' banned from schools as minister blasts Labour
Sounds like the Democrats are going back to their RACIST past - this time by denying THE BLACK WOMAN the right to run for office, as that is the ONLY REASON to disqualify her, considering how much she accomplished just to be on the statewide ballot.
Sickening.
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(the above is an example of how to troll the Left, and throw their language right back at them).
She got caught is the only thing Democrats have an issue with.
No one should be surprised by this she was caught months ago trying to get drug dealers to find her campaign and the tapes went public.. absolutely nothing new here other than it got wider attention
Yup. That was the one Ass Press desperately avoided because we oversensitive fragile white anxiety types might have, ah, misinterpreted it as somehow negative. Those of us who don’t think we deserve to be treated like sh*t, that is.
If Democrats thought she would win, they would make some excuses for her. Some everyone knows she’s toast, they pretend to have an air of decency.
Correction: Some should be Since, above.
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