Despite promising to step aside after racist Facebook post, Keith Nielsen becomes Harris County GOP

[TexasTowelie]

Despite promising to step aside after racist Facebook post, Keith Nielsen becomes Harris County GOP chair

by Patrick Svitek, Texas Tribune


Keith Nielsen has taken office as the chairman of the Harris County GOP, despite saying he would not do so earlier this summer after facing backlash to an image he posted on Facebook juxtaposing a Martin Luther King Jr. quote with a banana.

Nielsen, elected in March, was set to automatically take over as the party leader in Texas' biggest county, home to Houston, at 12 a.m. Monday. To forfeit the office, he would have had to notify the party secretary prior to midnight, which he did not do, according to party spokeswoman Genevieve Carter.

By Sunday night, over 120 precinct chairs had signed on to a statement reminding Nielsen of his early June "declination to take the office."

In recent weeks, all signs pointed to Nielsen reneging on his promise to not take office. He showed up to a meeting with state Senate district chairs last month and left the impression that he was reversing himself, and last week, he announced an Aug. 18 meeting with precinct chairs in an email that he signed as the "chairman-elect."

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08/03/keith-nielsen-harris-county/

[NCjack]

1. Harris County, TX has a racist GOP chairman. Shocking. Simply shocking.

[TexasTowelie]

2. I don't know how I'm going to sleep at night.

Oops, I'm usually here at DU posting threads between twilight and sunrise.

[Gothmog]

3. This idiot is a racist asshole and I am pleased to see some GOP types object

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