Under fire from Democrats, Dallas lawmaker stands by Tweet with Nazi meme

[TexasTowelie]

Jason Villalba
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@JasonVillalba


The modern Democrat Party is filled with Democratic Socialists and soft socialists. Is this where we are in America?
12:29 AM - 14 Oct 2015

AUSTIN – Rep. Jason Villalba is standing by a Tweet he made during Tuesday’s Democratic debate that included an image connecting presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ standing as a “Democratic socialist” to Nazism.

Under fire from Texas Democrats, the Dallas Republican said it was “ridiculous” to say that he compared Democrats to Nazis in the social media message.

Villalba said the Tweet’s attached image, which refers to Nazis, was just a “meme that was floating around the web.” He pointed instead to the text of his Tweet, which blasted the Democratic Party for being “filled with Democratic Socialists and soft socialists.”

“It’s perfectly accurate,” he said. “I was in no way making a comparison to the current Democratic Party and Nazis. If they want to read it that way, then that’s their prerogative. That’s not what the intent is.”

Read more: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/10/under-fire-from-democrats-dallas-lawmaker-stands-by-tweet-with-nazi-meme.html/

Cross-posted in the Bernie Sanders Group.

[msongs]

1. nazis were the National Socialist German Workers Party. they did NOT call themselves democratic

socialists. the tweet is a lie

[christx30]

5. The current republican party is closer to the

Nazis than Bernie. Kind of like the moon is closer to the sun than the Kepler system.

[DetlefK]

2. One of Hitler's political opponents was the "Social-Democratic Party of Germany" ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Social_Democratic_Party_of_Germany

[DhhD]

3. Is Rep. Villalba being backed by the Dallas area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce or the

Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce?

IMO he should apologize for misleading the public. He is a representative of the public.

[Paladin]

4. Accusing a prominent Jewish politician of being a Nazi?

Smooth move, Villalba......