House Democratic leaders condemned efforts Tuesday by a newly registered political action committee to boost a Democratic congressional candidate who made antisemitic comments ahead of a runoff election next week.
Leaders in both parties have denounced recent remarks by Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist who won first place in March’s Democratic primary for Texas’s 35th Congressional District. In a post on her campaign Instagram last week, Galindo said that if elected, she would “turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking.”
She’s also been accused of repeating tropes about her rival being controlled by money from Zionists and, according to the San Antonio Current, suggested that he and anyone else “supported by Israel” should be tried for treason.
State Rep. James Talarico, the party’s nominee for US Senate, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he wouldn’t campaign with Galindo.
“This antisemitic rhetoric has no place in our politics,” Talarico told JTA. “We need leadership in both parties willing to stand up and call out hate wherever it rears its ugly head.”
