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malaise

(296,346 posts) Sun Mar 1, 2015, 03:52 PM Mar 2015

ReTHUG candidate for Governor Tom Schweich committed suicide after Chairman of Missouri [View all]

ReTHUG party JOhn Hancock started a whisper campaign.

Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich, a Republican candidate for governor, died on Thursday in an apparent suicide after he went public with allegations that rivals in the GOP planned to mount an anti-Semitic ‘whisper campaign” about his Jewish heritage.

The suicide came minutes after he called the Associated Press to accuse John Hancock, the head of the Missouri Republican Party. of making anti-Semitic comments about him.

Schweich was a churchgoing Episcopalian but his grandfather was Jewish.

Read more: http://forward.com/articles/215584/missouri-republican-tom-schweich-commits-suicide-a/#ixzz3TAJntNhF

What a party of fucking THUGS. THey did this to one of their own - imagine their plans for everyone else.

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ReTHUG candidate for Governor Tom Schweich committed suicide after Chairman of Missouri [View all] malaise Mar 2015 OP

Hey, you are pretty close to a C-word T-word. rhett o rick Mar 2015 #1

This was covered on MTP earlier malaise Mar 2015 #4

There is more to this story, I can't imagine a whisper campaign would cause that kind of reaction... Agschmid Mar 2015 #2

I think so too loyalsister Mar 2015 #8

He was an AUDITOR. think about that. What else was he going to expose? nt kelliekat44 Mar 2015 #24

Kind of puts the lie to all that Judeo-Christian hogwash the conservatives keep on blithering about Fumesucker Mar 2015 #3

That was Goldwater's background exactly. No? Smarmie Doofus Mar 2015 #5

They like sending them to Israel to bring on da pocyclypse. Thor_MN Mar 2015 #13

GOP and the Mafia OldRedneck Mar 2015 #6

They actually told people he had Jewish blood? MannyGoldstein Mar 2015 #7

Yeah, Manny. Maybe it is... PCIntern Mar 2015 #9

I wonder if this sentiment contributed to Eric Cantor's primary defeat? Zambero Mar 2015 #10

I don't get it. V0ltairesGh0st Mar 2015 #11

Good point. Kud bee. nt PCIntern Mar 2015 #12

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4079/4876857708_cee21e7e67.jpg blkmusclmachine Mar 2015 #14

I can't help but think.. sendero Mar 2015 #15

Folks Missouri especially central to the eastern part of the State has gone off the deep end. gordianot Mar 2015 #16

Thanks for this post malaise Mar 2015 #17

I heard many racist epitaphs growing up, I did not succumb. gordianot Mar 2015 #18

Nope, it was something else alcibiades_mystery Mar 2015 #19

I actually hope that you're right malaise Mar 2015 #20

You may not want it, actually alcibiades_mystery Mar 2015 #21

I do feel sorry for the wife and kids malaise Mar 2015 #23

This seems off. My RW christian relatives love Israel, more than this country. The bible tells them Autumn Mar 2015 #22