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“The point is they’re going to use this racial divisiveness, which is the new Marxism for them, as a means to force their ideological agenda,” he said. Texas Democratic Party chair Gilberto Hinojosa said Wednesday the “oreo” comment was “a mistake for which Chair O’Connor has profusely apologized and taken responsibility for,” and accusing Mr. West of “massive hypocrisy” for his support of former President Trump. Mr. West pointed to the Democratic-stoked furor over election reforms such as voter-identification requirements for absentee ballots in Georgia. “If you’re tr...

Republicans on Wednesday brought their push to federal levels for Lamar County Democratic Party chair Gary O’Connor’s removal as local party leader following his April 30 Facebook post using a racial slur toward a Black Republican senator. Freshman Republican Rep. Pat Fallon filed a U.S. House resolution condemning the entirety of the Texas Democratic Party “for refusing to denounce racism” a day after representatives of the Lamar County Democratic Party rejected O’Connor’s resignation as party leader. O’Connor submitted that resignation with a public apolog...

Cancel culture has given a free pass to the liberals who launched racial attacks against Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., after his rebuttal speech to President Biden's addresslast week. In his speech, Scott Almost immediately after Scott's speech ended, liberals on Twitter caused the term " Uncle Tim" — a play on the racial slur "Uncle Tom" — to trend for hours on the social media network until the site forcibly took it down. However, whereas conservatives would have been raked through the hot coals in the kangaroo court of cancel culture for doing so, liberals have gotten a free pass for calli...

Local Texas Democratic party declines to accept resignation of chair who called U.S. Sen Tim Scott an “Oreo” Texas Tribune Tags:  Credit: The Texas Tribune Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Lamar County Democratic Party is not accepting the resignation of its chair after he reportedly used the slur "Oreo" to describe U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, who is Black, in a now-deleted Facebook post, according to a statement provided to The Texas Tribune. Representatives of the Lamar County Democrats met Tuesday to consider the...

Although Lamar County Democratic Party chair Gary O'Connor has issued a public apology to Sen. Tim Scott and Lamar County residents for his use of a racial slur in a since-deleted April 30 Facebook post regarding Scott's rebuttal to President Joseph Biden's address to Congress, local representatives of the Lamar County, Texas Democratic Party are not accepting his resignation.  "To Sen. Tim Scott, the residents of Lamar County, especially our Black residents, and to my family and friends, I profoundly apologize for the racially insensitive remark I made towards Sen. Scott last week. I was ...