Subject: [big campaign] GOP official suspended for calling labor activist 'radical bitch' (four hours after PN media storm)
From: Aniello Alioto <[email-masked]>
To: battlecomms <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:41:42 -0400
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4 hours, 43 minutes after Progress New Mexico blew up the local NM GOP
Party ED for calling Working America organizers "radical bitches" and
suggesting that working women were only good as prostitutes, he is
suspended.  The 37 news stories helped.

We also passed a local minimum wage increase in NM today - though that is a
longer story.

Many thanks to our friends at Working America for another successful
partnership.

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> From: ProgressNow NM <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:04 PM
> Subject: UPDATE: GOP official suspended for calling labor activist
'radical bitch'
> To: [email-masked]
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> UPDATE:  Albuquerque Journal political reporter Dan McKay is reporting
that, Steve Kush, the executive director of the Bernalillo County
Republican Party has been "suspended indefinately without pay" for his
sexist Facebook posts about progressive female labor organizers.
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> Approximately 5 hours ago, ProgressNow New Mexico called for Kush's
resignation earlier today after discovering the Facebook exchange between
Kush and another GOP party activist, Bob Cornelius.  Cornelius has publicly
apologized for his comments.
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> The original release and references are included below.
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> Contact: Pat Davis, (505) 750-0012, [email-masked]
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> April 24, 2013
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> Contact: Pat Davis, (505) 750-0012
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> Republican Party officals attack working women as prostitutes and
'radical bitches' in Facebook rant
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> Albuquerque – The local [executive director] of the Republican Party and
the group’s former executive director and land commissioner candidate
labeled a female supporter of a minimum wage increase a “radical bitch” and
described another as a prostitute in a Facebook thread describing their
testimony to the county commission overnight.
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> Steve Kush, the chairman of the Bernalillo County Republican Party,
attended the meeting after Republican Commissioner Wayne Johnson issued an
“urgent” call for opponents of the proposal to increase the county’s
minimum wage to attend.   In a Facebook post from the meeting, Kush
described a 19-year old volunteer member of Working America as a “radical
bitch.”
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> Working America members testified in support of the measure.
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> Less than a minute later, Kush posted “Uh oh another Working America
chick…nice boots…” describing the organization’s director who was also in
line to testify.   Bob Cornelius, the county party’s former executive
director and former state land commissioner candidate, replied in
comments:  “Maybe she used those shoes to walk Central…” a reference to
Central Avenue, portions of which have been identified as hubs for
prostitution.
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> “If the Republican Party wants to know why they have such a hard time
connecting with young women, they should start by examining the very public
way their leaders feel about young working women,” says Pat Davis,
executive director of ProgressNow New Mexico, a non-profit progressive
organization active in New Mexico politics. “Mr. Kush, Mr. Cornelius and
the Republican Party owe these particular women an apology as public as the
forum where they chose to attack them.”
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> “In a state run by one of the country’s most high-profile Republican
women, the party’s leaders appear to see nothing wrong with misogynistic
statements towards working women time and time again.  Mr. Kush should
resign." adds Marsha Garcia of ProgressNowNM.
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> Public attacks on women are not new for New Mexico Republicans.
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> Late last year two high-profile Republicans in the state caused
controversy for statements against women.  In October, ProgressNow New
Mexico and a coalition of women called for the resignation of Republican
County Sheriff Dan Houston after he called female civilian employees in his
office “a couple of fat whores” and described another as “not pretty enough
to sexually harass.”  The Republican Party refused to denounce Houston’s
statements.
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> The Republican Party’s National Committeeman, Pat Rogers, was forced to
resign his high-profile lobbying job when emails showed a pattern of
disrespectful behavior towards women, Hispanics, gays and Native Americans.
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