https://www.google.com/amp/s/vtdigger.org/2018/08/24/kiah-morris-withdraws-candidacy-bennington-house-race/amp/
UPDATED:
After threats, Kiah Morris withdraws from House race
(The influential voices of Vermont allowed this?!!
Her collegues did offer kind words following her exit, however. Is this what the
supremacist-moves-to-VT skit on SNL referred to?
No prominent Pol condemned it or stood by her in her campaign to defend her?
Pretty shitty huh.)
In August 2016, a mocking Twitter post by a Bennington man included a cartoon caricature of a black person. It was posted in response to Morris winning that year’s primary nomination and sparked condemnation among political leaders locally and around state government after Morris posted a screenshot on her Facebook page.
During the recent primary campaign, Morris, who is African American, her husband, James Lawton, and friends have referred a number of times on Facebook to racially disparaging online comments and to the receipt of threats, many from outside the Bennington area.
In a post this week, Lawton said his wife has received “death threats and threats of harm from all over the country due to the Max connection,” an apparent reference to Max Misch, of Bennington, who authored the Twitter post about Morris two years ago.
Lawton has blamed white supremacist groups in Vermont and elsewhere for recent harassment and threats and complained in a Facebook comment that the FBI “told us there ‘wasn’t enough evidence to open a case.’”
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