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Several Texas Republicans under fire for posts suggesting George Soros link to George Floyd protests
June 7, 2020 1:40 pm
(JTA) — Multiple Republican officials in Texas are under fire for social media posts suggesting George Soros is behind the protests sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.
The Texas Tribune reported that Sue Piner, the chair of the Republican party in Comal County, shared a post on Facebook last week with an image of Soros alongside text that read: “I pay white cops to murder black people. And then I pay black people to riot because race wars keep the sheep in line.”
Sid Miller, the Texas Agriculture Commissioner, has also posted about Soros multiple times in the last two weeks, including a May 31 Facebook post claiming that protesters are “domestic terrorists who were organized and paid for by George Soros to further divide our country.”
Lynne Teinert, the party chair in Shackelford County, shared a picture of Soros alongside this: “The pandemic isn’t working. Start the racial wars.”
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“This is what they’ve done for years,” said Abhi Rahman, the Texas Democratic Party’s spokesperson, according to the Tribune. “Now, people are starting to see what kind of conspiracy theories they engage in, they see how repulsive and disgusting they are.”
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called last week for two Republican county chairs to resign for sharing conspiracy theories about the protests, the Tribune reported. And James Dickey, the state Republican Party chair, said Friday that five chairs who had spread such theories should resign, saying their comments “do not reflect” the party’s values.
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