“A flier for an upcoming Republican fundraiser advertising an appearance by Governor Mary Fallin features a crude Mexican caricature and claims that speakers at the event will enlighten the audience with “things that you may not know about the NRA, Planned Parenthood, Ku Klux Klan and other organizations,” KFOR reports.
The flier for the Garvin County GOP “Bean Feed” outraged state Democrats who could not believe how low their counterparts had stooped to appeal to the lowest common denominator of their base.
Wallace Collins, Chairman of the Oklahoma Democratic Party, told KFOR that he couldn’t believe it was real, “but it is. It really is. I think they were trying to energize their base, the tea party base, the right wing nuts whatever you want to call them. In other words throw some red meat, raise some money.”
Some in the community believed that the flier was a prank being played on the Democrats.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
*Read more here from Scott Kaufman / The Raw Story:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/07/oklahoma-gop-fundraising-flier-crudely-racist-democrats-at-first-suspected-a-hoax/