Scheffler: An Embarrassment to Iowa
What is it that makes some Republicans so angry all the time? It must be taxing to spend all of one's time and effort opposing change that one knows is going to happen anyway. Is it really that gratifying just to slow things down and gum up the works?
Iowa’s Republican National Committeeman sent an e-mail this week to a gay member of his party who is considering a run for president and told him he would work overtime to ensure that his campaign aspirations are aborted.
“You and the radical homosexual community want to harass supporters of REAL marriage,” Steve Scheffler wrote in an e-mail to Fred Karger, a longtime civil rights advocate in California who is gay and has announced he is running for president [as a Republican]. “. . . I will work overtime to help ensure that your political aspirations are aborted right here in Iowa.”
Karger, the founder of Californians Against Hate, said he is shocked that one of Iowa’s highest-ranking members of his party would express such disdain.
[Jason Clayworth, "Iowa GOP committeeman to gay candidate: I’ll sink you", DesMoinesRegister.com, 27 May 2010.]
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on Monday, 31 May 2010 at 22.12
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What planet has Karger been vacationing on? He evidently hasn't paid attention to Rep. Steve King, Sen. Charles Grassley or much of the rest of the Republican Party. He can be sure they'll pay attention to him, just as Scheffler is doing now.