Democratic Congressman Names and Shames His Own Constituents for Donating to Trump
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U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro, a Democrat who represents a large portion of San Antonio, published a list of 44 San Antonio residents on Tuesday afternoon in an attempt to shame them and drive away customers from their businesses. Their crime? Donating to the Trump presidential campaign.
“Sad to see so many San Antonians as 2019 maximum donors to Donald Trump — the owner of @BillMillerBarBQ , owner of the @HistoricPearl , realtor Phyllis Browning, etc,” Castro wrote . “Their contributions are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as ‘invaders.’”
Joaquin Castro is the twin brother of Julián Castro, the former Obama HUD secretary and San Antonio mayor who is also a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Joaquin serves as chairman of his brother’s presidential campaign, which is currently polling at 1.6 percent in the Texas Democratic primary, according to Emerson.
David Rutz of the Washington Free Beacon observes that Joaquin Castro’s “sad to see” comment is a step away from saying it’d “be a shame if something bad happened to your business.’” Other p oliticians, such as Donald Trump himself, have been known to target big businesses, such as Jeff Bezos’s Amazon and the NFL. Castro’s targeting the owners of small businesses and even some retirees seems particularly off-putting.
JOHN MCCORMACK is the Washington correspondent for National Review and a fellow at the National Review Institute.
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Putting people in danger, trying to create fear as a political weapon. The kind of thing done in Cuba or Iran or North Korea.
What a rotten soul!
These are the Democrats now. They can't debate their policies so they try to destroy their competition by any means possible.
Usually these dirty tricks backfire. If I was in San Antonio, I would be having a good BBQ dinner tonight.
What is "sad to see" is he is a Congressional member.
The Governor of Texas responded in the best way possible:
Greg Abbott
A perfect night for @BillMillerBarBQ
Deplorable behavior.
If trump published an enemies list of private citizens with their home addresses at a rally, the media would rightfully lose their mind.
"Cliff Sims worked on Trump's 2016 campaign and then for the White House as a communications aide until May 2018."
"Sims, (said) he was in a private huddle with the president and Keith Schiller, his personal bodyguard and longtime aide. They helped Trump write an enemies list using a Sharpie and White House stationery. "We're going to get rid of all the snakes, even the bottom-feeders," Trump said, according to Sims."
I guess having an actual private enemies list is far better than saying "sad to see" some person or business donated to Trump.
"Democratic Congressman Names and Shames His Own Constituents for Donating to Trump"
But according to David himself.... "He didn't mean for it to be that way".
WTF did he think doing something like that would do (liberals are always looking for anything to shame Trump Supporters
) ?
The Democratic Party has always used threats and intimidation since the party was created. Everyone has forgotten that Democrats created the Ku Klux Klan for the purpose of threatening and intimidating people (not just voters).
The Democratic Party hasn't changed its political methods in two hundred years. Today's Democratic Party has only attracted a diversity of bigots into its big tent of hate. And if anyone doesn't like it then obviously they are racists who will be the target of Democratic threats and intimidation. The Democratic Party of Jackson is still the Democratic Party of Jackson after two hundred years.
Really? The Republican party has never done this? I know they have.
Can we try again.
This is why partisan politics stinks. Each side points fingers at each other for the same garbage they have pulled in the past. It's petty and it tears at the fabric of this nation.
And for the record, I don't approve of this, but to make it sound like it's just the Dems that do it, is inaccurate.
Harass & intimidate an individual and or their families? Please give us an example.
I thought the Sarah Sanders restaurant harassment was cute
, but the newest Mitch McConnell home harassment shown on FB, calling for him to be stabbed in the heart, was better. 
Does this ring a bell?
Ask Gabby Gifford how she feels about this.
Is this not intimidation?
They have done it to many.
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” - DJT
How is that not harassing and intimidating Mexican immigrants and their families?
A letter signed by Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) states that “the news of impactful, real progress on turning our nation around was undercut by biased media and hundreds of millions of dollars of anti-Republican propaganda put out by liberal special interests, funded by deep-pocketed far-left billionaires George Soros, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg.”
How is that not the GOP harassing and intimidating private citizens and their businesses? The constant unfounded accusations against Soros are just one of many attacks on individuals that the Republicans regularly employ.
Be careful Perrie. Palin is currently suing the New York Times for its' false claim that this ad had something to do with Giffords being shot. The Times already formally retracted its statement. I'd avoid having to do the same thing.
There was no connection between the Giffords shooting and this target map (which mimicked a similar ad by the DCCC). To claim one exists is dishonest. the loon who shot her was mad she could't answer his deranged question about grammer at a townhall.
Oh, ya, the old smear of Palin. The outrageous claim that those pin points were actually targets and that Palin was calling for those people to be shot.
It was false then and it's false now. You still haven't shown where Republicans have this wing of thugs that goes out and harasses and intimidates it's opponents.
Did you miss the part where Castro identified them by name and provided their addresses where they could be found?
First of all it has nothing to do with Mexican immigrants. It had to do with the Mexican government and illegal immigrants OR DON"T YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE?
You have got to be kidding Vic. What do you think Sarah was doing? Even if she didn't mean to shoot them, she was targeting them in very much the same way.
So what is false?
Yes they have !
And now the "Left" is SCREAMING that these last shootings are because of Trumps rhetoric, but seem to ignore their own ACTUAL ACTIONS have been far worse. It's like it's okay for them to act , but no one is allowed to just speak.
It's like the "Left" doesn't have a clue.
Sorry about the last statement. I really already new "Clue" is just a board game in Liberal World.
At least an "Assault Weapon" wasn't used huh.
Do you wonder how Scalise feels ?
Sean let her sue. Even if she didn't mean to shoot those reps, she was targeting them and their families in much the same way that you all are complaining about now.
And this is the amazing part, where I can come out and say that Castro was wrong, neither you or Vic can say that Sarah was.
Partisan politics at it's best.
It is I that am surprised.
What do you think Sarah was doing?
She was making the peoples elected officials accountable for their votes - in the hopes they be defeated. I have published how legislators have voted right on NT for the very same reason!
Even if she didn't mean to shoot them, she was targeting them in very much the same way.
She wanted them defeated. Because of a symbol used, somehow the left gets to call it an appeal for murder? Just think about that for a minute. It's not like she picked out the symbol or more important, that she ever used that type of rhetoric. If she had said something like I have thought about bombing the white House, then ya, maybe I'd grant you that. I really thought that was debunked long ago. Obama won - can't we finally admit what that was?
So what is false?
Yup, another twisting of the obvious into a call for murder!
You have an excellent point there. I want people to think about that.
To be defeated in an election - WHICH IS FINE!
You're asking waaaaaay to much of "Some' people.
Correct because they are not the same! Palin wanted people defeated in an election. The left wants people silenced!
I was right ……. On what ?
And you don't think that would cause people to act out in the same way that Castro is doing? Come on Vic.
And Castro wants Trump defeated. He is hitting the big doners. They are both wrong for doing so in this manner.
No more than what Castro is doing. I never said that Sarah wanted them dead, but she wanted them harassed and defeated. It was irresponsible for her to do it just as it is irresponsible of Castro.
And btw.. this goes both ways. How about armed Trump supporters showing up at a reps office? You know we can go on and on showing how partisan hacks do this, or we can say, that both sides are wrong and it should stop.
"Stupid" people should shut their mouths ?
Have you been reading along? McConnell's home was surrounded by threatening thugs. It happened to Chuck Schumer as well, along with many others. Haven't you heard anything about that? Tess? Anything?
What do you think Sarah was trying to do? Not silence them? This is all about intimidation. That is the discussion here. Sarah was trying to intimidate. You can twist this any way you like, but that is plain as the nose on my face.
Republicans may or may not have done so. And?
The Democratic Party has definitely engaged in racial politics using threats and intimidation for the last two hundred years. The Democratic Party really is responsible for creating the Ku Klux Klan. Blaming others won't change the history of the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party was established to be the party of slavery and racial division.
Pointing fingers at others won't change the history of the Democratic Party. Tearing down all the statues of southern Democrats may hide the party's past but the stain of history is still there.
The history of the Democratic Party is not partisan. History is history. If that history is unacceptable then why be a Democrat?
Castro isn't making officials accountable for their votes - he is posting the names of people who donate money to the Trump campaign - local people lining in the San Antonio area.
Come on Vic.
Private individuals! Hands off!
And Castro wants Trump defeated. He is hitting the big doners. They are both wrong for doing so in this manner.
No, Castro wants him removed through impeachment and or an election! The "big doners" had their small businesses tossed into the mix. Where is the decency?
but she wanted them harassed
No, she didn't! Where did she call for that?
It was irresponsible for her to do it just as it is irresponsible of Castro.
We all need to see how our elected officials vote. Harry Reid didn't allow votes on budgets for that very reason.
And btw.. this goes both ways. How about armed Trump supporters showing up at a reps office?
Link please?
You know we can go on and on showing how partisan hacks do this, or we can say, that both sides are wrong and it should stop.
NEVER....It is the tactics of the left and only the left.
Do you even know what Beto said ?
Do you even know who Beto is ?
This is okay because it was palin that did it doncha know
Yes, so that people will not patron their business and write. No where is he calling for violence. It is still wrong!
Really? Would you say the same thing about Soros? He is a private individual.
You are conflating the two. This has nothing to do with impeachment. This has to do with donations to the Trump campaign.
Palin’s rhetoric is decidedly militant. “We’ll aim for these races and many others,” she wrote on her Facebook page
PHOENIX — On Thursday, January 25, 2018, several armed Trump supporters, carrying Trump flags, surrounded Arizona state Representative Pamela Hannley and yelled at her about her “protecting illegals” near the state Capitol in Phoenix. Close by, on their way to lunch, were Representative Eric Descheenie (D-Chinle) and Representative Wenona Benally (D-Window Rock). Both are Navajo.
I'm truly sorry that you are blind to the problem. This is a tactic of both parties, no matter how you want to see it.
It'll happen. It's even condoned these days without saying it in specific terms.....right ?
First of all, I have said I that I don't think she meant to shoot them. It was still irresponsible for her to use targets in her graphics. It's really easy to take that to mean something else.
The Republican party has never done this? I know they have.
Can you provide some examples?
The lefts use of threats, fear, intimidation are well known and getting worse. It looks like the Republicans are going to have to start doubling down on them.
Care to expand ?
Soros the foreign millionaire who meddles in US elections? Think about what your saying Perrie.
You are conflating the two. This has nothing to do with impeachment. This has to do with donations to the Trump campaign.
It has to do with the nature of Castro who hates Trump and wants him removed anyway possible as do many others.
Palin’s rhetoric is decidedly militant. “We’ll aim for these races and many others,” she wrote on her Facebook page
And you detected a call for violence from that?
On Thursday, January 25, 2018, several armed Trump supporters, carrying Trump flags, surrounded Arizona state Representative Pamela Hannley and yelled at her about her “protecting illegals”
Protecting illegals is illegal!
Did you take it the way some seem to have ?
Does "Mental Illness" come into play if someone does take it as a specific "Kill Area" instead of what it really meant ?
No, Soros is an American. He was born in Hungry but became an American citizen. Try again.
Indeed, much in the same way that Sarah did.
No more than Castro.
That is NOT the issue. They came to her armed. That is menacing and it is not their right. I don't care what the reason is, they had no reason to come there like that. Had they come to protest i would be fine with that, but they came armed and that is just so wrong I have no words for it.
Greg, I did already. Please read through the thread.
Again, already being discussed. You seem to miss the point. You think that making this worse is better? Please rethink that.
Beto sure does have a race baiting potty mouth.
Especially since he's just a 1%'er in the presidential race.
Maybe his race baiting potty mouth will get him another 1% in the race ?
So much for the "Good Ol' Boy" persona vanity fair made him out to be.
Castro is doxxing people. Is that acceptable here on NT? Why are people here defending doxxing?
Yes, Let us get that straight - he holds duel citizenship within the US and Hungary.
Indeed, much in the same way that Sarah did.
I'm sure she didn't want her opponents impeached, imprisoned or murdered! She only wanted them voted out.
No more than Castro.
Then you are being very generous, Did you know he even listed one of his own doners, all to hit Trump!
Nerm,
We are not talking about race politics here. We are talking about intimidation in politics.
The moment anyone declares themself to be loyal to a party.. any party, they are partisan. I am an independent. I hold no such party loyalty, hence my position on this subject.
I think Nerm has raised interesting questions in post # 8.1.47. What do you say on that?
Which still makes him an American citizen, with full voting rights unlike what you implied by saying:
He is allowed to spend his money legally on elections because he is an American. Not that I necessarily support his POV, which I state before that gets twisted into something else.
That is an assumption.
I would only be generous if I agreed with this tactic, which I said from the get-go that I am not. I had 2 points to make here:
And again, as I said from the beginning I do not support what Castro did, but it has been done before by Republicans and so no one can claim the high ground.
Vic,
This has been already established by me where I stand on this. It is up to Nerm to find my posts. I can't speak for others here, so as for this being OK on NT, well this has nothing to do with NT as an entity. It is a discussion forum with different POV's
By your logic our Slovenian first lady should be staying out of politics...
We're not talking about racial politics? Then why is Joaquin Castro quoted as writing “Their contributions are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as ‘invaders.’”
Democrats have used racial politics to intimidate people throughout the history of the Democratic Party. The Castro example is all about using race to justify intimidation.
That doesn't change the question. If the history of the Democratic Party is unacceptable then why be a Democrat? For independents that question would become why support Democrats?
The history of the Democratic Party is not partisan; it's historical fact. Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Democrat and the Ku Klux Klan he created were Democrats using threats and intimidation to win elections. George Wallace was a Democrat. Democrats switching targets hasn't changed the nature of racial politics to justify threatening and intimidating people.
Joaquin Castro is being consistent with the two hundred year history of the Democratic Party.
AMEN TO THAT!!
I think the timing is completely reckless. You have a state that is suffering and scared, and one of their Congressional leaders decides to put out a target list.
Nerm,
First of all, the topic is not racism.
Second, the Democratic party is not 200 years old.
It would depend on the Democrat, just as it would depend on the Republican. Independents vote issue and person, not party. Each party has its beauties in the past. So we look forward. Heck, if there was a third party to vote for that was viable, I would vote for them, too, but our 2 party system has made sure that they made it almost impossible to have a third party. So we just chose the lessor of two evils at that time.
Really for us, it is an awful way to vote, but that is the reality of the issue.
And do you realize how inconsistent you are being when you say that the Dems were started by the KKK (it was) and then say Castro a Latino who the KKK would despise, represents what the founding of the party WAS?
Should we also remember that although Lincoln freed the slaves that he was also a racist and was deeply concerned about what to do with all the freed slaves? That he actually didn't believe that whites and blacks were equal. Does that represent the Republican party now?
It's ridiculous to make any comparison back to the founding of these parties.
I'm not agreeing with him Sunshine. I am not sure how many times I have to say that. I am just saying that this has been going on in politics for quite a long time already and we need to not tolerate it any longer.
Partisan politics at it's best.
I'll say. You're clinging to a false narrative that even the New York Times apologized for to create some sort of "both sides do it" narrative which is just false. At this point, connecting the Giffords shooting to Palin is as dishonest as claiming Obama was born in Kenya. It's simply false and perpetuating it, regardless if you fear being sued or not, is simply not honest.
where I can come out and say that Castro was wrong, neither you or Vic can say that Sarah was
I can say Palin was wrong about a whole of things.But I won't say she was wrong about that ad, anymore than I would say the Democrats were wrong for doing the same thing. That's the apples to apples comparison and my position is consistent between both Palin and the Democrats. And neither the Democrats ad nor Palin's remotely equates to a politician publishing the private addresses of private citizens.
The topic is Joaquin Castro using racial politics to justify intimidating people by doxxing them.
Okay. The Democratic Party is 191 years, 6 months, 3 weeks, and 6 days old (as of Aug. 7, 2019). The Democratic Party was founded on January 8, 1828, by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Andrew Jackson was the 7th President. Martin Van Buren was the 8th President. All Democratic Presidents elected before the Civil War supported the institution of slavery.
I am saying that Joaquin Castro is engaging in the same type of politics as Democrats did when they created the KKK. The Democratic Party has not changed its use of racial politics. The Democratic Party has only attracted a greater diversity of bigots which, naturally, has altered the specific racial politics being pursued by Democrats to accommodate that diversity.
If Democrats continue to use racial divisions and racial resentments to justify threats and intimidation then the Democratic Party really hasn't changed since its founding. Different bigots, same politics.
Antebellum Democrats invented political correctness by claiming to be arbiters of proper behavior, speech, and social standards involving race and enforced that political correctness by threat and intimidation. The party of Jackson is still the party of Jackson 191 years, 6 months, 3 weeks, and 6 days later.
I didn't think you where.
Nerm,
The democratic party as you are referring to happened in with a split in the 1870's after "Reconstruction". That makes it 149 years old.
And both parties have used racial politics. It does not belong to just the Dems.
No Nerm. Antebellum Democrats were the KKK. Civil rights Dems of the 1960's are the ones you are talking about and I would have to say that threat and intimidation have been used by both parties..
Nerm has yet to be acquainted to the 20th century (let alone the 21st) when it comes to race and politics.
I pointed out to them that since 1930 over 95% of the black members of Congress, House and Senate, have been elected as DEMOCRATS.
That is an inconvenient fact for people like Nerm to deal with.
Sean,
I really don't care about what the NYT apologized for or didn't. Maybe they don't have the stomach to take on Palin, but we all know the expression that a picture is worth a thousand words and no matter what she thought (maybe it catchy o was trying to be humorous) she could have used any other marker than a target to give some lunatic an idea. How we chose to express ourselves does count.
Sean, I have already said it was wrong. But how is that different from say this:
vs Casto's tweet:
I don't see any names or personal addersses. Do you?
But let me make this clear, what I just said is not an endorcement of what Castro did. I am just showing you that it is done all the time.
And ss Newsweek posted:
I think our politicans should all think before they post.
And most of all, before they open their mouths. As the saying goes....."Words do matter." And when words meant to deliberately incite hate and violence that results in the shooting of others, then the person whose mouth they come out of is just as guilty as if they themselves pulled the trigger.
So, "sad to see" is just a step from making threats towards specific people or groups? Well then what would this be called?
“When the owner of Bill Miller BBQ sends his people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people..."
How is that not a direct call for violence against the person/group being mentioned there if "sad to see" is supposedly a near threat?
Nope, there is no relation between the two things. The false outrage based on the perceived insults to the "other" is a form of hate in a class all it's own!
I agree, calling someone or some group "rapists" is a lot worse than saying it's "sad to see" someone donating to Trump. We saw this last week what can happen when the leader of a party gins up such intense fear and hatred of a group of people.
Obama and Hillary are gone now so I think we can heal.
Do you think Trump gins up intense fear and hatred?
No. Do you think calling millions of Americans "clingers" & "deplorables" might be ginning up fear & hatred? Or is it ok if it gets out the minority vote?
Problem is that it isn't the truth.
Yeah he is good at that.
"They are going to put y'all back in chains!"
We have a president that has used the word "invasion" or "invaders" to refer to hispanics 200 times in his online re-election videos ,
and then someone shoots up a gathering of hispanics in a department store and declares that he did it to stem an invasion of hispanics into America
and we still have people saying "both sides" of politics are an equal problem in America today
it is insanity
Youv'e been stirring the pot since it happened. Haven't enough people died?
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My party never backed a Communist, too bad you can't say the same!
That is awful. Thanks goodness it was just a just a one off.
so you are obsessed with communists. lol
John, it was you who injected Communists
John - Trump hasn't blamed the Hispanics - he is blaming the INVADERS, the ILLEGAL ALIENS, the LAW BREAKERS. What the shooter said can't be tied to anything that Trump said as a serious statement. Trump has NEVER advocated killing the foreign INVADERS, but he has, very openly, advocated their deportation. How the shooter interpreted that is something neither you nor anyone else except the shooter can do accurately.
This information is available via public records. Also, he's just being non-pc, which trump approves of.
So what was the need for him to do it?
Freedom of speech.
dumb response
So you don't support freedom of speech, got it, good to know.
Frost is
Wonder how far he will go?
So you have no problem with a Republican government official releasing your personal information just so some people can come and intimidate and threaten you?
When I am a US Congressman, knock yourself out.
Again, if you donate to a political campaign, it's public knowledge. All he did was post already publicly available information, so why EXACTLY is that a problem?
And no, I would have no problems with my publicly available information being...publicly available because I literally have nothing to hide.
Sure, this information wasn't secret, but you draw people's attention to it for a reason. i.e., you want a reaction. What is that reaction going to be? I think we can safely assume that his intention was that the reaction is negative in some way. Maybe it will be a boycott. Maybe it will be some kind of verbal harassment. Maybe it will be violence. Is there potential positive value in this? I don't see it. Coming from someone in government, this is an attack on the 1st Amendment - in spirit if not in the letter of the law.