KS GOP Official: Native American House Candidate Will Be ‘Sent Back Packing To The Reservation’

HOLD FOR STORY - FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2018, file photo, Democratic Congressional candidate Sharice Davids talks to volunteer at her campaign office in Overland Park, Kan. Davids is challenging Republican incumbent Kevin Yoder in Kansas' 3rd District. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2018, file photo, Democratic congressional candidate Sharice Davids talks to a volunteer at her campaign office in Overland Park, Kan. Davids is challenging Republican incumbent Kevin Yoder in ... FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2018, file photo, Democratic congressional candidate Sharice Davids talks to a volunteer at her campaign office in Overland Park, Kan. Davids is challenging Republican incumbent Kevin Yoder in Kansas' 3rd District. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) MORE LESS

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — A local GOP official has resigned his party post in Kansas after fellow Republicans condemned his social media attack saying a Native American congressional candidate would be “sent back packing to the reservation.”

The Kansas City Star reports that Michael Kalny of suburban Kansas City resigned Wednesday as a Republican precinct committee member.

In his Facebook message, Kalny called Democratic candidate Sharice Davids a “radical socialist kick boxing lesbian Indian.” He sent the message Monday to the president of a local Democratic women’s group.

Davids is an LGBT lawyer and member of the Wisconsin-based Ho-Chunk Nation running against Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder. She also has fought mixed martial arts bouts.

Yoder’s spokesman and the Kansas GOP’s executive director repudiated Kalny’s remarks. Kalny did not return a telephone message seeking comment.

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  1. Avatar for arawak arawak says:

    Not racist!! Not racist!! Don’t they all live on the reservations–we gave them? Plus the injuns didn’t even have a concept of personal property rights, so they better hope we don’t gold or oil on that land . . .
    See. Not racist!!

  2. Avatar for spin spin says:

    Why does he not also attack her for having graduated with a law degree from Cornell? Being a dumb-fuck is now the Rethug demographic…

  3. Once you see the GOP’s rhetoric as attempts to preserve white male supremacy and privilege, you realize that they really have nothing else to say.

  4. Avatar for tena tena says:

    O My God!

    This is how they are going down I guess - pumping their bilge for all the world to see.

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