Are These California Values?
“I’m proud to have earned David Brayton’s vote, but this is who we fight for. Every. Single. Day.”
- Steve Knight
If this were Nazi Germany, David Brayton would have been wearing a brown shirt. Instead, he sat down to shoot a commercial with Congressman Steve Knight with a shirt emblazoned with the word “infidel.” This only hinted at his hatred of the Muslim religion and other “overt bigotry”
Knight’s campaign strategist told the Los Angeles Times that there was no reason to vet Brayton’s social media postings before putting him in a TV commercial. However, doing so would have revealed that the person that they were featuring had posted on Facebook that he knew “why black kids in liberal-run cities hate and murder in huge numbers. They realized they were conceived as a paycheck.” They would have also known that Brayton had publicly speculated that “Perhaps all Jews on television should wear [a yellow Star of David inscribed with the German word ‘Jude’] just to make sure the audience knows … wink wink.” Echoing Trump, the man sitting next to Knight in the congressman’s commercial had posted that “CNN…