It’s being presented by the Tea Party Express as his decision, but Mark Williams is out as spokesperson for the group. Maybe he is doing it on his own, but hard not to think that the firestorm created by his comments like Allah is a “monkey god” and the NAACP makes “more money off of race than any slave trader, ever” didn’t convince the Republican operatives behind the Tea Party Express that it was time to dump Williams. Not that they deserve any credit for it now.

David Kurtz

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