Rep. Steve King’s (R-IA) comments that President Obama “favors the black person” by default in an argument may have cost him an appearance at a Colorado fundraiser.
King was previously going to speak at an event for Colorado state Rep. Cory Gardner, who is running against freshman Democratic Rep. Betsy Markey. But as the Fort Collins Coloradoan reports:
He was scheduled to speak at a $100 a person fundraiser for Gardner on Saturday in Hudson, but the event has been scrapped, Gardner campaign manager Chris Hansen said.
Hansen wouldn’t elaborate on the reasons, but he informed the Coloradoan of the cancellation after the paper inquired about King’s remarks. The campaign had sent an e-mail to supporters Friday promoting the fundraiser.
Late Update: It gets even better - now the Northern Colorado Tea Party has cancelled a scheduled King speech at an event of theirs this weekend. “I was pretty disappointed when I heard his comments,” Lesley Hollywood, director of the Northern Colorado Tea Party, told the Coloradoan. “What he said doesn’t fit in with tea party values, particularly in Northern Colorado.”
How bad does King have to be, that he gets disinvited from a Tea Party event for saying something nasty about Obama?
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