Intel Withdraws Funding For "White Supremacist" GOP Congressman Steve King

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In an internal email (https://popular.info/p/update-intel-ends-financial-support) sent last week, Dawn Jones, Intel’s director of policy and external partnerships, told employees that the company would no longer donate to King’s re-election campaign after it looked into his “public statements and determined they conflict with Intel values.” Intel had already donated $2,000 (https://popular.info/p/update-intel-ends-financial-support) to King’s 2018 campaign.
A spokesperson for Intel on Monday confirmed the accuracy of Jones’ email to HuffPost but declined to comment further. King’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this article.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/intel-withdraws-funding-white-supremacist-154249562.html

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Representative Steve Stivers (R., Ohio), who chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, condemned Representative Steve King (R., Iowa) in a Tuesday tweet for appearing to sympathize with white-nationalist ideology.

Congressman Steve King’s recent comments, actions, and retweets are completely inappropriate. We must stand up against white supremacy and hate in all forms, and I strongly condemn this behavior.
— Steve Stivers (@RepSteveStivers) October 30, 2018 (https://twitter.com/RepSteveStivers/status/1057327397685653510?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)



Stivers, as the head of the House GOP’s campaign arm, is the most prominent Republican to speak out against King, who has been scrutinized recently for endorsing a white-nationalist fringe candidate for mayor of Toronto and meeting with far-right Austrian politicians historically tied to the Nazi party.
King, who represents Iowa’s fourth district, defended his meeting with the Austrian politicians Saturday, telling the W (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-the-wake-of-the-pittsburgh-attack-rep-steve-kings-iowa-supporters-brush-aside-concern-about-his-white-nationalist-views/2018/10/28/a16b7044-dabf-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8cbb3c71550e)ashington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-the-wake-of-the-pittsburgh-attack-rep-steve-kings-iowa-supporters-brush-aside-concern-about-his-white-nationalist-views/2018/10/28/a16b7044-dabf-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8cbb3c71550e) the men he met with are ideologically aligned with the American Republican party.
“If they were in America pushing the platform that they push, they would be Republicans,” he said.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/nrcc-chairman-condemns-rep-steve-192721571.html

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Dairy titan Land O’ Lakes announced Tuesday that it will no longer donate to Iowa Rep. Steve King (R) after his comments on immigrants and George Soros raised eyebrows in the wake of the Pittsburgh massacre. Bloomberg News reports that King has supported Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship, and retweeted (https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/918082467457794048) a conservative European news outlets’ comments about “Satan [George] Soros” last October. He also publicly backed (https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/1052390445735706624) Faith Goldy, a far-right candidate (https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-steve-king-endorses-neo-nazi-sympathizer-faith-goldy-gop-says-nothing) for Toronto’s mayor. “The Land O’Lakes Inc. PAC has traditionally contributed to lawmakers of both parties that represent the communities where our members and employees live and work and are also on committees that oversee policies that directly impact our farmer owners,” the company said in a statement (https://www.landolakesinc.com/Press/News/PAC-donation-statement-steve-king). “We take our civic responsibility seriously, want our contributions to be a positive force for good and also seek to ensure that recipients of our contributions uphold our company’s values. On that basis, we have determined that our PAC will no longer support Rep. King moving forward.”

More at: https://www.thedailybeast.com/land-o-lakes-pulls-support-for-iowa-gops-steve-king-over-racist-remarks

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Pressure building to expel Steve King from Congress (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/pressure-building-expel-steve-king-180634437.html)