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CCI Action calls for Steve King to resign
For Immediate Release: January 15, 2019 For more information: Adam Mason, State Policy Organizing Director, 515-282-0484, adam@iowacci.org Members of Iowa CCI Action calling on racist, white supremacist Steve King to resign from office immediately Steve King’s racist white supremacist worldview is not new and it is not a secret. As Iowans we have become accustomed to writing King off as an embarrassment to our state. But King’s comments are not merely offensive; his worldview is dangerous, and he is trying to make it a reality. We as Iowans are committed to standing up against hate, standing up against white supremacy, and standing up against religiously and racially motivated violence and those who promote these evils. That is why we confronted King at a campaign event in Des Moines. This is a moral issue and a wakeup call. Many in politics and our government have spent years turning a blind eye to King’s explicit white supremacist worldview for their...
read moreVIDEO: member confronts Steve King with his own white supremacist quote
If you missed it: Kaleb, a CCI member and ISU student, attended an event where Congressman Steve King took questions. He quoted Steve King’s words and tried to ask King a question.
The Congressman exploded. He had Kaleb removed from the room.
Key to the story is the question Kaleb asked.
Greater Des Moines Partnership: #DropKingNow
Seventy-five Iowans delivered a letter to Jay Byers, CEO of the Greater Des Moines Partnership, demanding he to cancel their event with Congressman Steve King.
Days before the Nov. 6 election, this was far from a political protest.
A clear moral call drew families from Des Moines and Iowa’s fourth congressional district which King represents. The speak out called attention to the fact that the Tree of Life shooter and Congressman Steve King share the same worldview.
Racist comments from Steve King Mirror the Tree of Life Gunman
The hate motivating the Tree of Life shooter’s murders was directed at the Pittsburgh Jewish community because they provide legal assistance to immigrants through Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), who the shooter accused of “bringing invaders in that kill our people.” Earlier this year, Steve King threatened immigration attorneys who were helping migrants, saying “These lawyers better have their laws right if they are going to go to a foreign country and help facilitate an unarmed invasion into the United States” (April 25, 2018, Fox News). The shooter and King share a common fear of migrants as “invaders” and they both direct their rage at the immigration lawyers who protect them. The last words the shooter said before shooting up the synagogue were, “I can’t sit by an watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics. I’m going in.” This summer, King, also angered by immigration policy which he claimed had “sacrificed thousands, including...
read moreDes Moines Partnership: Drop Steve King Now
Despite receiving more than 200 emails and calls in less than six hours from area residents calling on them to cancel a candidate event with Congressman Steve King, Greater Des Moines Partnership CEO Jay Byers indicates that the event will go on.
Click through to read our letter on why the Greater Des Moines Partnership must cut ties with Steve King. This is not a political issue. This is not a partisan issue. This is a moral issue.
