Georgia's Black legislators signed a statement demanding answers about Collins' ties to white nationalists. His answer never named his son-in-law, and never touched the chief of staff he replaced or the video he reposted.
The third-ranking House Republican said Somalis who don't assimilate should "go the hell back to where they came from" — and that he's "done being careful." The claim underneath it, that Somalis commit 80% of Twin Cities crime, is contradicted by Minnesota's own crime data.
Gooden wrote to the Dallas Housing Authority demanding ten years of data on where Housing Choice Voucher families are being placed in Kaufman County, citing 'housing concentration' and 'neighborhood stability.' He cited Walker v. HUD — the case that ordered Dallas to stop keeping Black families out of white neighborhoods.
Gill's answer to being called racist was that the accusation has lost its power. Told the reason is that he called Indian Americans '7-Eleven workers,' he said nothing back. Hours earlier the same afternoon he had posted a family-values campaign ad without his Indian American wife in it.
Rep. Brandon Gill chaired a June hearing on Ohio Medicaid fraud, named Somali and Bhutanese immigrants as the culprits, and refused to let the three Ohio Democrats who asked to question witnesses take part.
Five Senate Republicans named the bill in January. Stauber carried the identical text into the House in March, alone, and has kept it there. It is a child care bill that also writes a terrorist group into immigration law and lets an officer deport a provider on suspicion. The video that started it all produced no confirmed findings of fraud.
Scalise spoke to a hate group founded by a former Klan grand wizard, told a reporter he was Duke without the baggage, and voted twice against a Martin Luther King Jr. state holiday. Now he's the House GOP's elder statesman and the obvious contender to lead the conference next.
Keith Self told the McKinney City Council to expect child marriage and honor killings if it approved a neighborhood mosque. City staff said the plan was fully compliant with the rules. Every council member voted yes anyway.
State troopers cleared the gallery. Democrats walked out. Not one Republican rose to defend the map. Fleischmann's public reaction was gratitude — and relief that he kept his own seat.