DCCC: TEA PARTIER McCANN MUST BREAK SILENCE ON GROSSMAN’S HATEFUL COMMENTS

Seth Grossman, the Republican candidate in New Jersey’s 2^nd Congressional District, has spent the past two weeks making local and national headlines for his racist, homophobic, and xenophobic comments.

It’s a tough task to read all of Grossman’s known offensive comments, but a sampling reveals Grossman has called diversity “a bunch of crap and un-American,” accused Barack Obama of promoting terrorism, said that Kwanzaa was “a phony holiday invented in 1960’s by black racists to weaken and divide Americans,” and wrote that HIV-positive gay men should have been quarantined.

Some Republicans have spoken out. But not Tea Partier John McCann.

“Tea Partier McCann’s silence is unacceptable and he needs to immediately speak out against these racist comments,” said DCCC Spokesman Evan Lukaske. “Voters are sick and tired of spineless and extremist politicians like McCann, who seems to only find his voice if he’s at a fundraising dinner or hobnobbing with lobbyists.”

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