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GOP candidate's husband shares image urging voters to 'free the black slaves from the Democratic plantation'
SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/02/politics/kfile-karen-handel-husband-tweet/index.html
(CNN)The
husband of Republican congressional candidate Karen Handel shared an
image on his Twitter timeline Tuesday that urged voters to support his
wife in order to "free the black slaves from the Democratic plantation."
Handel's husband, Steve
Handel, shared the image in the form of a quote-tweet, in which he
shared the tweet of another user who initially posted the image and
added his own commentary. In a statement to CNN's KFile on Tuesday,
Handel's campaign said her husband hadn't paid attention to what was
said in the original tweet.
"Like
many of us, he (Steve) made a mistake and retweeted something he didn't
pay a lot of attention to, thinking it was just an absentee vote
message. It clearly was not appropriate and has been deleted," a
campaign spokesperson said.
Handel
is running to replace former Rep. Tom Price, who resigned his seat to
become Health and Human Services Secretary. She's locked in a tight race
in the runoff election with Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff.
The image, shared by user @rose10052, featured a stock image of young black man in a suit with white text.
"Criticizing
black kids for obeying the law, studying in school, and being ambitious
as 'acting white' is a trick Democrats play on Black people to keep
them poor, ignorant, and dependent," text on the image reads. "Free the
black slaves from the Democratic plantation."
"Handel
will fight for minorities to excel," the image reads in bold letters at
the top. The bottom of the image also tells people to "join the
movement" to "send Karen Handel to Congress" with a link to her website.
