Keller says she has received threats due to the statements and is staying away from the State House as a result.
The Republican state lawmaker posted on her personal Facebook page following a mass shooting in Dayton that claimed nine lives and another in El Paso in which 20 people were killed. Authorities are still investigating the motive behind the Dayton mass shooting. The shooter in El Paso is believed to have posted a lengthy manifesto against immigrants before his killing spree.
Screenshots purportedly of Keller’s post, which has since been locked from public view, read:
After every mass shooting, the liberals start the blame game. Why not place the blame where it belongs?The breakdown of the traditional American family (thank you, transgender, homosexual marriage and drag queen advocates); fatherlessness, a subject no one discusses or believes is relevant; the ignoring of violent video games; the relaxing of laws against criminals (open borders); the acceptance of recreational marijuana; failed school policies (hello, parents who defend misbehaving students): disrespect to law enforcement (thank you, Obama); hatred of our veterans (thank you, professional athletes who hate our flag and National Anthem); the Dem Congress, many members whom are openly anti-Semitic; the culture, which totally ignores the importance of God and the church (until they elect a president); state officeholders, who have no interest whatsoever in learning about our constitution and the Second Amendment; and snowflakes, who can’t accept a duly-elected President. Did I forget anybody?
The list is long. And the fury will continue.
The post drew immediate rebuke from Democrats and other critics. The chair of the Butler County Republican Party, Todd Hall, distanced himself from the remarks, as did Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones, himself known for controversial statements.
“Shame shame shame Candice Keller,” Jones tweeted yesterday.
Keller told The Hamilton Journal-News that the post sounded like one she made, but that she was uncertain if it had been edited. Keller also confirmed to The Cincinnati Enquirer that the post was hers and had been hidden from public view.
It’s not the first time Keller has courted controversy. In 2017, she appeared on a radio show hosted by Brian “Sonny” Thomas, who has espoused white nationalist views. Keller has said she did not know about Thomas’ ideology until after she appeared on his show.
Earlier this year, Keller was co-sponsor of a so-called “Heartbeat Bill” that sought to outlaw abortions as soon as six weeks after conception. Though slated to become law in July, a federal judge blocked the bill, saying it violated a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.
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This article appears in Jul 31 – Aug 6, 2019.
She would never dream of coming to scary Cleveland, with all its crime, gays, weed, and snowflakes.
Especially the snowflakes. I’d love to see this Palin-wannabe digging her car out of a blizzard and receiving help from a person of color with pink hair. Better yet, stay in the Bible belt, bitch. Don’t need your kind!
Jackie Borchardt@JMBorchardt
Ohio Republican Party Chairman
@JaneyMurph
is calling on Rep. Candice Keller to resign over her Sunday Facebook post blaming Obama, marijuana, open borders, drag queen advocates and more for mass shootings.
https://t.co/SDElfGzMGR
Candice Keller is one of Trump’s Nazi followers. When confronting the horror of these mass shootings we cannot ignore the fact that Trump and the GOP have made a huge effort to stir up bigotry and racism in our country. Our nation is under attack by heavily armed red hat Trump thugs who rightly think murdering Americans of color is what Trump wants. Shame on the GOP for supporting the Trump white supremacist movement and helping to create a climate of mass murder, lies, hatred, bigotry, racism, and deceit. Let us never forget the GOP and Little Donny for the wrongs that they have perpetrated, and the horrible damage it has done to our proud nation. Long live America, free from hatred, racism and bigotry. We must IMPEACH TRUMP NOW!!
This woman is dumb as a bag of hammers. It’s always the fault of someone with different opinions than yourself, right? The sad thing is, she’s more to blame than anything or anyone she named, because somehow this moron got into public office, y’know the place where people make laws intended to prevent crap like this from happening, and she’s done absolutely nothing to change the laws so this kind of garbage is less likely to occur.
Behold! A pale horse cometh to the State House, someone get this mouth breather a feed bag so she stops talking…
This Sarah Palin look-alike and wannabe needs to go to the same place Sarah went…a place even worse than HELL for her loudmouth Bible-tumper kind…OBLIVION! That will torture her even more than the fires of the hell she so devoutly belives in. Vote the bitch out, Middletown, and send her back to being an AGING NOBODY!
Rep. Keller is staying away from The Statehouse…but not because of ‘threats’ as she publicly claimed. She has simply embarrassed herself by making such stupid, bigoted, false assertions about everything and everyone…except the young man who bought his own weapons, his own ammunition, his own body and head armor, drove himself to the scene of his horrible senseless crime and pulled the trigger over and over until he was shot dead by law enforcement order to stop the slaughter.
Keller placed no blame at all on the shooter. Keller in her time as a state representative has never done anything to help state government representatives from collectively solving THAT problem. I blame representative cowards like Keller.
Love how the anti everything but white resluglican jizz rags are coming out to support- wait… oh wait, there’s only two of you dumb enough to buy into whatever ole horse face is selling. That’s actually quite reassuring.
You really have to be in the negative concerning brain cells to believe hee brand of BS considering the entire effing world has just about every single “problem” she mentioned, but only the US has had as many mass shootings as there are days if this year. I wonder what the difference is? Couldn’t be easy access to guns, right? Nah couldn’t be that, must be because nobody believes in or prays to my personal made up diety in the sky, could it? Yeah that’s it. I wonder if a decline in belief in Zeus caused a rash of mass rock throwing incidents in ancient Greece? Eh, one for the historians…
What a bunch of buffoons you religious nutbags are, lmao…