California GOP pulls its support for House candidate Ted Howze after his old social media posts slamming Dreamers and the Black Lives Matter movement came to light

  • Posts from Howze's social media show a grounded belief in conspiracy theories 
  • The California House candidate has now been dropped by the California GOP 
  • A string of posts over a two-year period, espoused conspiracy theories and mocked Muslims and the Black Lives Matter movement 

By Ryan Fahey For Mailonline

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The California GOP removed its support for House candidate Ted Howze after a string of old inflammatory social media posts came to light. 

Howze strenuously denied that he had posted the comments, which he called 'ugly and demeaning', claiming they were uploaded by someone else - who he refused to name. 

A string of posts over a two-year period, espoused conspiracy theories and mocked Muslims and the Black Lives Matter movement. One post said that Democrats Hillary Clinton and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) were murderers.  

This undated photo provided by the Howze for Congress campaign shows Republican 10th Congressional District candidate Ted Howze in Modesto, Calif. California is one of the most heavily Democratic states in the country, but Republicans this year are determined to regain a string of U.S. House seats the party lost to Democrats two years ago

This undated photo provided by the Howze for Congress campaign shows Republican 10th Congressional District candidate Ted Howze in Modesto, Calif. California is one of the most heavily Democratic states in the country, but Republicans this year are determined to regain a string of U.S. House seats the party lost to Democrats two years ago

In one post targeting the BLM movement he wrote: '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 unable to effect any real change for the better.'

He also accused the Clintons of leaving 'a trail of bodies as long as the Mississippi River behind them,' Politico reported.  

Another inflammatory post suggested the Orlando Pulse nightclub shootings were supported by the Obama administration, who wanted to 'lay off Muslims'. 

The unanimous decision to oust Howze came yesterday, with the GOP Chair, Jessica Millan Patterson calling the posts 'disgraceful' and 'disgusting'.  

Pictured: Ted Howze, second from right, with his family in an undated photograph

Pictured: Ted Howze, second from right, with his family in an undated photograph 

Pictured: One post targeted the Black Lives Matter campaign, using bogus statistics to criticize them

Pictured: One post targeted the Black Lives Matter campaign, using bogus statistics to criticize them 

Howze also targeted the Dreamers and suggested all their parents are criminals

Howze also targeted the Dreamers and suggested all their parents are criminals

'Mr. Howze's social media posts recently revealed through news reports are disgraceful, disgusting and do not represent the values we hold or the Party we are building,' Patterson said in a statement. 

Yesterday, Howze doubled down on his innocence, calling the accusations 'Brett Kavanaugh style attacks'.

'The maliciously false attacks on our campaign based [on] old social media posts being attributed to me are Fake News.

'They do not resemble anything close to my personal words or actions exhibited during my decades-long record of service in the Central Valley,' Howze said in a statement. 

Howze's district is a competitve red-to-blue California seat, which could have dramatic consequences for the party's control of the House if lost.

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