Ex-Jeff Sessions staffer sends racist email promoting Sheriff David Clarkes nonexistent Senate ru
Source: raw story
11 May 2017 at 14:51 ET
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke David Clarke appears on Fox Business News on Sept. 21, 2016. (Media Matters)
A former member of Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions’ Senate staff and aide to several Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee sent out a viciously anti-immigrant, Latino-bashing email in the name of fundraising for a U.S. Senate campaign by Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke, a darling of right-wing media.
The trouble is, according to Mother Jones magazine, Clarke — who bills himself as “the black Rush Limbaugh with a badge” — isn’t running for a U.S. Senate seat in Wisconsin or any other state. But that’s not slowing down Jack Daly, who has joined together with a cabal of right-wing pundits and reality TV stars urging Clarke to run for higher office.
The email — one of a series sent out by Daly — was sent out May 6 and echoes the type of nativist anti-immigrant rhetoric that President Donald Trump used to kick off his campaign in June of 2015.
In a rant about Milwaukee County and its decision to be a so-called “sanctuary city,” Daly — who lives in North Carolina — wrote, “Remember: the hard Left nimrods running Milwaukee’s government have declared Milwaukee a ‘Sanctuary City’ and the schools ‘Sanctuary Schools’ — safe havens where illegals who have been convicted of murder, gun running, dope dealing, rape, and robbery since coming to American unlawfully can hide for the rest of their natural lives, or until they themselves get murdered in another drug deal gone bad.”
Daly called a recent demonstration against Clarke a “revolting display of anarchy” attended by “tens of thousands of assorted criminals, illegal aliens, deportables, and miscellaneous Mexican flag-waving types,” as well as “confused and marginalized American university professors, pot heads, and other miscreants.” .........................
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/ex-jeff-sessions-staffer-sends-racist-email-promoting-sheriff-david-clarkes-nonexistent-senate-run/
There are a few stories saying Pitchfork Clarke is being considered for a job in Trump Administration----birds of a feather and all that!.
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