A Georgia Democrat lawmaker has detailed the tactics his Democrat colleagues attempted to use to scare him after he publically endorsed President Trump’s reelection.
According to The Daily Caller:
Jones officially endorsed Trump on April 14, and since that time, he said the reaction from his Democratic colleagues has been nothing short of vicious.
“When I exercised my constitutional right to freedom of speech, they attacked it. They tried to scare me and others by censoring us, wanting to silence us,” he said. “That’s voter suppression.”
“I am a free-thinking, independent, conservative black man. The left-wing of the Democratic Party, they were mortified by that. They couldn’t believe it,” he continued. “The names that I was called. I was like ‘what in the world is this?’”
The backlash wasn’t confined to just public rhetoric. The Democratic Party chairs of Dekalb and Rockdale counties — Jones’s district covers both — censored him. The chair of the Georgia Democratic Party endorsed his primary opponent, Rhonda Taylor, an action that Jones said was a direct violation of the party’s bylaws.
Jones pointed to the backlash against him as being bigoted because the late Democratic Georgia Sen. Zell Miller was not removed from the party when he endorsed then-President George W. Bush in 2004. Jones said this was because Miller was a white conservative Democrat.
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