Just six months ago the Arizona legislator from Prescott was complaining that there aren’t “enough white kids to go around” in the public schools, and immigrants are a “threat.” That racist bullshit was even too much for Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, who called for Rep. David Stringer to step down. He didn’t and the good people of Yavapai County re-elected him a couple weeks ago. Yea you!
Rep. Stringer is back with another nugget of bigotry. On Nov. 19 he spoke to a political association at Arizona State University, which invited him, knowing his history of racist remarks. The students were “itching to talk to him about … his views to see whether his positions had evolved.”
It doesn’t look like they have. The meeting, which became a debate, was recorded and shared with the press. On the recording, an actual elected member of the Arizona legislature says:
… "diversity in our country is relatively new" and that when Europeans immigrate to the United States, "after the second or third generation, everybody looks the same, everybody talks the same."
"But that's not the case with African-Americans and other racial groups, because they don't melt in, they don't blend in," he says.
When the heck, after the first time, was diversity in this country a new thing? Do you even know where you’re living, Rep. Stringer? You arrogant turd brain. So this is what it means to be an American for Rep. David Stringer—what you look like, whether you “melt in” [with whites] how you “blend in” [with whites].
Clearly, the lawmaker has given this some thought, or whatever passes for synaptic activity in that alleged brain:
"The difference between the Polish-American immigrant and the immigrant from Somalia is the second-generation Polish immigrant looks like the Irish kid and the German kid and every other kid. But the immigrant from Somalia does not."
It’s a shame, isn’t it, that this region’s first inhabitants, after having lived here for thousands of years, never did “blend in” with David Stringer’s people. Or that Mexican families, who’ve lived here since this was Mexico, not that long ago, don’t “melt in” with Stringer’s hateful worldview. Rep. Reginald Bolding and others are having none of it, calling for the Prescott lawmaker to step down. Even the chair of the Arizona GOP said Stringer’s “perspective … is out of touch with reality.”
Rep. Bolding’s press release, below, points out that Stringer was, mind-boggingly, head of the legislature’s effort to fix the criminal justice system! Sure, let’s put Bull Connor in charge of the House Sentencing and Recidivism Reform Committee. I’m sure his policies will be sound, well-researched, and humane.
Well, no more. House Speaker Rusty Bowers removed Stringer from his criminal justice assignment as soon as the recording appeared. "These comments render him incapable of performing his duties as (committee) chair," Bowers said.
Before you leap to your feet to applaud Speaker Bowers, remember that this knuckle-dragging bozo endorses LGBTQ conversion therapy and a lot of other discriminatory, fundy bullshit. You gotta love how Bowers slices and dices the hate, saying that Stringer’s bigoted comments “don’t reflect the sentiments of the Arizona Legislature” or their constituents. Oh, like your homophobic nonsense does. I’m running out of facepalms.