Addressing the important things for members of their Party, Texas Republicans removed language from a pro-Israel resolution that would ban its members from associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers, the Texas Tribune reports, because even Texas Republicans need friends.
By a 32-29 votes–so they almost grew a spine–the move knocks down a provision that would have barred Republican leaders and candidates from associating with people “known to espouse or tolerate antisemitism, pro-Nazi sympathies or Holocaust denial.” The measure was proposed because many state Party officials were concerned after self-proclaimed Hitler fan Nick Fuentes was photographed by reporters coming out of the offices of a key Republican campaign advisory firm.
“I just don’t understand how people who routinely refer to others as leftists, liberals, communists, socialists and RINOs (‘Republicans in Name Only’) don’t have the discernment to define what a Nazi is,” committee member Morgan Cisneros Graham told the Tribune after the vote.