Joe Pakootas calls on Cathy McMorris Rodgers to withdraw her support of Donald Trump after lewd comments regarding women
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Today Joe Pakootas, candidate for US House of Representatives, released a video calling on his Republican opponent, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, to withdraw her support for Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump. Last Friday a tape was released of comments that Trump made in 2005 on the set of Access Hollywood. The comments describe in vulgar terms Trump groping, kissing, and trying to have sex with women without their consent. Trump has on multiple occasions, including last night’s Presidential Debate, dismissed this talk as “locker room banter.”
“As a coach, I know this is not ‘locker room banter.’ This is language that encourages rape and sexual assault and it must not be tolerated,” Pakootas stated in an email to his supporters. For years Pakootas and his wife coached children on their Indian Reservation as a way to keep their young people away from drugs and substance abuse.
“I am horrified and disgusted. As a father, grandfather, brother, and husband, I cannot imagine if someone spoke like this to the women in my life.”
In the latest Facebook post from this morning, Pakootas notes that McMorris Rodgers has not addressed this controversy on any of her social media platforms. In an advertisement released this afternoon, Pakootas calls on McMorris Rodgers to denounce her party’s nominee.
“I am calling for my opponent to denounce Donald Trump and withdraw her support. She has a moral obligation to the people of the 5th Congressional District. If she doesn’t, she is unfit to serve on moral grounds. “
Pakootas also notes that McMorris Rodgers is, by refusing to withdraw her support, choosing party politics over the needs of the people of Eastern Washington. McMorris Rodgers is the 4th Ranking Republican in the House, and the top ranking woman. Many other Republican officials have denounced Trump’s words and withdrawn their support after these comments were released four days ago.
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