NEW JERSEY DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE

LAUTENBERG, WISNIEWSKI DENOUNCE CHRISTIE FOR RAISING MONEY FOR RIGHT-WING EXTREMIST

CALL ON CHRISTIE TO CANCEL TRIP TO IOWA TO HEADLINE FUNDRAISER FOR RADICAL HOUSE REPUBLICAN STEVE KING

(Trenton) – Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and New Jersey Democratic State Committee Chairman John Wisniewski today called on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to cancel a trip to Iowa tomorrow, during which he is scheduled to headline a fundraiser for right-wing extremist Congressman Steve King.   
“It is shocking that Chris Christie is willing to pander to the most extreme elements of the Republican Party,” said Lautenberg.  “Steve King is a right-wing radical whose views are not only out of line with the values of most New Jerseyans, but also out of line with the values of most New Jersey Republicans.  I call on the Governor to respect common decency, and cancel this misguided and offensive excursion.”
“At the end of the day, this is about the company you keep,” said Wisniewski. “New Jerseyans have a right to expect a higher standard from their governor than this. Governor Christie’s use of his office and his position as a representative of our state to support Congressman King’s abhorrent views and agenda is unacceptable. Governor Christie needs to cancel his trip to Iowa and get back to doing his day job.”

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Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is often in the news for espousing his radical views, including:

King Compared Immigrants To Dogs And Then Said That Was a “Compliment.”
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/07/812831/gop-congressman-tells-voters-that-comparing-immigrants-to-dogs-was-really-a-compliment/

King Strongly Opposes “Diversity” in American Society
In defending his bill to make English the official language of the U.S., King said: “The argument that diversity is our strength has really never been backed up by logic.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/steve-king-english-language_n_1734431.html

King Said That President Obama “Has A Default Mechanism In Him” That “Favors The Black Person.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/15/steve-king-accuses-obama_n_612798.html

King Said Obama’s Election Will Cause Al-Qaida to “Dance in the Streets”
“When you think about the optics of a Barack Obama potentially getting elected President of the United States -- I mean, what does this look like to the rest of the world? What does it look like to the world of Islam? I will tell you that, if he is elected president, then the radical Islamists, the al-Qaida, the radical Islamists and their supporters, will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11 because they will declare victory in this War on Terror.”
http://www.spencerdailyreporter.com/story/1316727.html


King Thinks the President’s Family May Have Faked His Birth in Hawaii
“We went down into the Library of Congress and we found a microfiche there of two newspapers in Hawaii each of which had published the birth of Barack Obama. It would have been awfully hard to fraudulently file the birth notice of Barack Obama being born in Hawaii and get that into our public libraries and that microfiche they keep of all the newspapers published. That doesn’t mean there aren’t some other explanations on how they might’ve announced that by telegram from Kenya. The list goes on.”
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/01/619371/steve-king-birther/

King Says He Has Never Heard Of A Child Getting Pregnant From Rape Or Incest
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/21/1122581/-Rep-Steve-King-backs-Akin-Says-he-s-never-heard-of-child-pregnancies-from-rape-incest



King Still Repeats “Death Panel” Lie
King continues to spread the outlandish claim that the Health Care Reform Law will impose “death panels” that will“make a decision on whether your life is worth saving.”
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/10/steve_king_palin_was_right_on_death_panels/

King Insists that Key Clinton State Department Aide is a Muslim Radical
King has broken from John McCain and other Republicans and continues to attack State Department official Huma Abedin, recently claiming she is “deeply entrenched in the Muslim Brotherhood.”
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/24/king_abedin_deeply_entrenched_in_muslim_brotherhood/