Thread by @deb_fillman

I personally call on all @NCGOP members and leaders, as well as all #GOP members of the General Assembly, especially @NCHouseSpeaker to lead on this issue. Any obviously anti-semitic organization claiming to speak for Republicans should be unequivocally reminded they do NOT.1/

https://twitter.com/SloanRachmuth/status/1538876759373905921

This is not "cancel culture," this is integrity, and leadership. In a time when perception is reality (sadly), and destructive messages like the ones sent by Ms. Donovan's group can make it into every home in NC in seconds, it is incumbent on good leaders to challenge claims. 2/

Ms. Donovan uses age-old anti-semitic tropes about @SloanRachmuth being a Jew to smear her fact-based reports about education in NC, all of which are *non-partisan.* Sloan cares about the *truth,* not loyalty to a party, and good leaders appreciate that integrity. 3/

The @NCGOP should not stand by silently while people of integrity like @SloanRachmuth are smeared just b/c she is not a Republican partisan. Keri Donovan is obviously "loyal," but if her loyalty prompts her to use anti-semitism to defend the @NCGOP, so what? 4/

There are reasons enough for North Carolinians to mistrust, and turn away from the @NCGOP; it's getting harder every day to differentiate them from Democrats. Many of us see our choices as Democrats, and Democrat enablers. 5/

@NCHouseSpeaker Moore, Ms. Rachmuth has done this state a great service for the past few years, but instead of allowing her to help you -- really help you -- differentiate yourselves from the Democrats, you appear to have allowed the worst elements in the party to go unchecked.6/

Will you speak up @NCHouseSpeaker and make abundantly clear that you do not want 'help' that looks and sounds like the anti-Semitic attacks leveled at @EdFirstNC and @SloanRachmuth ? Will you lead, or will you claim this has nothing to do with you?7/

See it does have to do with you. When they explicitly claim to be speaking FOR Republicans, and attack on the grounds that they are defending Republican political interests in this state, you at the @NCGOP and @NCHouseSpeaker are who they are talking about. 8/

Will you say "Not in our name," or no? Will you force us to read between the lines, and assume your silence is consent for this to continue? Would you rather alienate the anti-semites claiming to speak for you, or Republicans and would-be GOP voters who are disgusted by them?/END