The Democratic operative said he took the screenshots of Howze’s Facebook and Twitter posts, tweets and retweets when Howze started his first run for Congress in March 2018. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand.
They do not resemble anything close to my personal words or actions exhibited during my decades-long record of service in the Central Valley.“The Congressional Primary of 2018 was a extremely competitive race, and no mention of any such derogatory posts we ever made. The screenshots in the most recent Politico story are from 2016.Politico reported the inflammatory posts were interspersed with ones about family life, including attending sporting events, holiday celebrations and vacations.When the first stories came out in early May, Howze’s campaign manager “People he (Howze) knew, people he was familiar with made these comments (and retweets),” the manager said. Howze is heartened and inspired by the outpouring of public and private words of support he’s received over the last several weeks. These ongoing attacks are a deliberate distraction by political opponents of Dr. Howze because he continues to be a conservative first, and a threat to the corrupt establishment and political class.”Stanislaus County, California, reported six new deaths to COVID-19 on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020, as positive test results surged past 9,000.Subscribe for unlimited digital access to the news that matters to your community. They are from 2017 and 2018. The NAACP’s Modesto-Stanislaus branch is calling for Ted Howze to drop out of the election for California’s 10th Congressional District in the … But his campaign issued a statement:“Dr. The sentiments in question obviously do not reflect the thoughts or actions of a dedicated community leader who has worked with the diverse communities for decades.”This statement is the most the campaign has said about the latest posts. The NAACP’s Modesto-Stanislaus branch is calling for Ted Howze to drop out of the election for California’s 10th Congressional District in the wake of the most recent discovery of more inflammatory posts on his social media accounts, including ones denigrating immigrants, Muslims and the Black Lives Matter movement.Howze is a large-animal veterinarian and former Turlock councilman. He is a graduate of San Jose State University. Harder then went on to beat Denham in the November election that year.It read in part: “Despite the backlash Howze has received in recent days over alleged social media posts from several years ago, we believe in his character and that a conservative agenda in Congress is superior to the Democrat agenda.”Howze’s campaign concluded its Sunday statement with: “Dr. He really is disgusted by the whole thing.” The manager would not say who those people were.Politico reported last week that Howze’s campaign would not comment on its most recent story but issued this statement: “It’s the policy of the campaign to not comment on fake news or redundant stories by the same insider online blog.” The campaign also would not answer questions from The Bee.But “Ted Howze for Congress” posted this Thursday on Facebook: “The maliciously false attacks on our campaign based on old social media posts being attributed to me are Fake News. This is not who he is. Howze has not spoken with The Bee regarding this issue despite several requests from the newspaper in recent weeks.Politico said the posts included ones from 2016 in which Howze compared the so-called Dreamers, the immigrants who came here as young children, to pedophiles, claimed Muslims could not be good American citizens and said of the Black Lives Matter movement, “as a culture, 95% percent of you vote in lock step for the same political party who held you as physical slaves and now wish to keep you as political slaves ... .”Subscribe for unlimited digital access to the news that matters to your community. He took full responsibility for not monitoring those pages and those with access several years ago, and is exploring legal action. The local leaders who have endorsed Howze include Modesto Mayor Ted Brandvold and Turlock Mayor Amy Bublak, who lead Stanislaus County’s biggest and second biggest cities. Modesto Mayor Ted Brandvold initially declined to comment Thursday but released a statement Friday in support of Howze: “I read the posts printed in The Bee … “He’s very upset. The operative said that within a few hours, the Twitter account had been deleted and the Facebook posts had been deleted or removed from public view.The screenshots did not surface until recently when Politico obtained them. The Republican is challenging U.S. Rep. Josh Harder, D-Turlock, in the November election to represent Stanislaus and southern San Joaquin counties.The local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People posted a news release Saturday night on “The discriminatory rhetoric displayed on Mr. Howze’s social media sites against Mexican immigrants, Muslims, Black Lives Matters, and massacre survivors (is) unacceptable, condemnable and in our opinion, disqualifying to serve in any capacity in our diverse county,” the release states.The release stated the posts, tweets and retweets were not isolated incidents, spanned more than two years and “add fuel to an already raging fire of bigotry that has besieged our nation.”Sign up for one of our many newsletters to be the first to know when big news breaksHowze, 53, did not respond Sunday to a request for comment.