A progressive group called on Republican National Committee leader
Pat Rogers to step down on Friday after emails showed him telling New
Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez’s staff that meeting with a group of
American Indians “dishonored” Gen. George Armstrong Custer, the 19th
century commander who killed scores of American Indians.
“The state is going to hell,” Rogers, who is a member of the GOP
executive committee and is currently in Tampa for the RNC convention,
wrote in a June 8 email
released by Progress Now New Mexico. Former Republican gubernatorial
candidate Col. Allen Weh “would not have dishonored Col Custer in this
manner,” he wrote.
Martinez is required by law to attend the annual state-tribal leaders summit, according to Progress Now New Mexico, which called for him to step down.
“Such a blatantly racist statement against our native people is
offensive from anyone, but to come from a national GOP leader and
lobbyist for some of our country’s largest corporations is
indefensible,” Progress Now New Mexico’s executive director Pat Davis
said in a statement.
No comments:
Post a Comment