WHERE ARE IOWA VOTERS COMING FROM?

…Here’s Ms. Faith Goldy with Trump Lawyer, Rudy Guiliani.

The Canadian Mayoral candidate, Ms. Goldy, says “immigration is contributing to a white genocide in Canada”.

Well, once again, Mr. Steve “Mexican-drug-runners-with-calves-the-size-of-cantaloupes” King, the Iowa Republican Representative has done it again.

This time, the racist bigot is facing criticism for his endorsement of a white-nationalist mayoral candidate in Canada.  A major US conservative news outlet published a piece describing Steve King as “America’s most deplorable congressman.”

And the news outlet is not alone.

On the other side of the GOP, the top three House Republicans, Speaker Paul D. Ryan (WI), Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA) and Majority Whip Steve Scalise (LA) did not respond to requests for comment on King’s endorsement.

Former New York mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, who is currently President Trump’s personal attorney, he is a big endorser of the mayoral candidate.  Ms. Goldy is a former reporter for the far-right Canadian news site The Rebel, and she is running in Toronto, Canada’s up-coming mayoral election.

Ms. Goldy recently posted photos of herself with Mayor Guiliani, and she stated that it was an honor to meet with “America’s Mayor while on the campaign trail”.  She also stupidly commented, that, “I just can’t wait to become Canada’s Mayor!”

Ms. Goldy stated: “Just like Giuliani cleaned up the streets of NYC, our tough on crime playbook is going to run illegal guns & gangs right out of Toronto!”

Goldy was fired from her job at The Rebel after she appeared on a podcast produced by the ­neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, during last year’s white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville.  Earlier this year, she promoted a 1936 book by a Romanian fascist who denounced “the Jewish menace” and “the parasitism of the Jews.”

Sounds like a real solid Trump supporter.

Ms. Goldy later walked back her book recommendation, claiming that she had endorsed the book before she was aware of its entire contents.  In other words, she literally endorsed a book that she had either not read through, or she probably just read the reviews.

As expected, Steve King’s congressional office did not respond to a request for comment on King’s endorsement of Goldy.

As to how others feel about Representative King: In a post for the Weekly Standard published Wednesday, the magazine’s assistant opinion editor, Adam Rubenstein, called King “an embarrassment to the GOP and to America” and said that his endorsement of Goldy was totally “unsurprising.”  “King and Goldy are both animated by the same brand of race-based identity-politics that consumes the alt-right,” Rubenstein wrote. “King’s focus on race and ethnicity is so consuming that it has become the core of his politics.” He concluded by questioning why King still has his seat in Congress.  My question as well.

King’s Democratic opponent, J.D. Scholten, responded to King’s endorsement by blasting the lawmaker in a tweet.  “Once again, Steve King spends more time supporting far-right leaders in other countries than he does focusing on the needs of the people of our district,” Scholten said.

But this is far from the first time that King has come under concern for his embrace of extremist figures.

King had stirred controversy when he refused to delete a retweet of a message by Mark Collett, a self-described “Nazi sympathizer” and admirer of Hitler’s Germany.  In a CNN appearance this June, King spent five minutes explaining why he would not delete his retweet of Collett.  His long explanation made absolutely no sense….?

House Republican leaders initially did not respond to King’s retweet. The lawmaker’s actions eventually prompted a rebuke from Ryan’s spokeswoman, who told the Daily Beast that the speaker “has said many times that Nazis have no place in our politics, and clearly members should not engage with anyone promoting hate.”  Republican Majority Whip, Steve Scalise also weighed in, urging lawmakers “to be vocal in speaking out” against neo-Nazism and Holocaust denial.

Last year King was widely repudiated after he declared that far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders was correct that “our civilization cannot be restored with somebody else’s babies”, a statement that earned him a scathing reproach from the largest Iowa paper, the Des Moines Register.

King, who was first elected to the House in 2002, and he again cruised to reelection in 2016.  To most interested Americans, this was and is astounding.

Unfortunately, his seat is stated by the usually correct Cook Political Report as a seat that will likely stay in Republican hands in next month’s midterm elections.

In other words, as compared to the former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh, we will apparently have to continue having to deal with Iowa Rep. Steve King.

As also mentioned, “What does this say about Trump supporters and Iowa voters?”

Copyright G. Ater  2018