[U.S. Rep. Jeff ] Flake says Republican’s neo-Nazi tie hurts GOP
It was the political equivalent of using a bazooka to zap a housefly.
Three Republican congressmen took time this week - amid a pivotal presidential campaign and on the doorstep of their national convention - to demand removal of a minor functionary on the very lowest rung of the party’s ladder.
What’s up with that?
What’s at stake, said U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., is the name and reputation of the Republican Party in a year that many analysts figure will be a tough one for the GOP.
Flake, along with Reps. John Shadegg and Trent Franks, sent a letter Tuesday to Tom Husband, Maricopa County Republican chairman, demanding that J.T. Ready be removed as a precinct committeeman in legislative District 18 because of his ties to the neo-Nazi movement.
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