IL-06: Sean Casten Saying Dan Crenshaw is a Racist and Amendment That Drew Comment from Casten Full Context

Sean Casten

As multiple tweets, press releases and articles have gone up in the past two days concerning Congressman Sean Casten (D, IL-6) calling Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R, TX-2) a racist, there has been confusion over the context.

Here is the latest tweet from yesterday concerning the Casten/Crenshaw incident:

McHenry County Blog admits there has been a lack of full context into what happened and when. As the tweet yesterday afternoon pointed out, yesterday morning’s Morning Answer show on radio 560AM featured this story and played audio made at the October town hall meeting when Casten was asked to denounce anti-Semitic statements.

Additionally on Wednesday, a press release from the Jeanne for Congress campaign included an excerpt of the same recording.

McHenry County Blog believes in full context and the video released by Jeanne for Congress was a 45 second excerpt of a 3 minutes plus video. So here is the full video from America Rising:

So, with the help of the video, here’s the outline of the sequence of events from early March through yesterday:

  • March 7: The House passed House Resolution 183
    • “Condemning anti-Semitism as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contradictory to the values and aspirations that define the people of the United States and condemning anti-Muslim discrimination and bigotry against minorities as hateful expressions of intolerance that are contrary to the values and aspirations of the United States.”
    • Passed House with firmly bipartisan vote of 407-23-1
    • Casten says to colleague Brad Schneider (D, IL-10) vote was tough vote, Schneider suggests write a statement and issue it.
    • Casten issues press release on H Res 183 https://casten.house.gov/media/press-releases/casten-statement-anti-discrimination-resolution
  • March 8: House debates H.R. 1, “For the People Act”
    • Congressman Dan Crenshaw offers the final amendment to the legislation, through a Motion to Recommit (MTR) that included a Sense of Congress saying “It is the sense of Congress that allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of United States citizens.”
    • Congressman Crenshaw speaks for nearly five minutes why he wants his MTR passed to amend H.R. 1
  • October 5: Town hall, Casten admits to what he was thinking why Crenshaw wants to add the MTR during the March 8 session and calls Crenshaw a “racist” at 2:53 of the above video.
  • October 14: Washington Free Beacon publishes the story with a picture from the above video from America Rising.
  • October 15: Congressman Crenshaw responds to article with tweet
    • “When you can’t articulate a coherent argument, you resort to calling your political opponents racist. Can’t say I’m surprised. Just another day in Washington with the Democrat Party.”
  • October 16 AM: Jeanne for Congress issues press release condemning Casten racist name-calling of Crenshaw.
  • October 16 PM: Crenshaw tweets donation request for Jeanne Ives and the “Flip the Seat!” message
  • October 17 AM: Ives interviewed by Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson about Crenshaw comment
  • October 17 PM: Jeanne for Congress issues press release how Crenshaw’s statement has ignited her campaign against Casten to the national level

Now, Casten while calling Crenshaw racist exhibited surprise about elections already prohibit illegal immigrants from voting. Some commenters said this too.

While another commenter pointed out local school board elections in San Francisco allow the parents of illegal immigrants in a local school to vote in school board elections.

So, believing in full context, let’s watch/listen to exactly what Crenshaw said back on March 8 when he spoke in favor of his MTR and while listening, this was what Casten admitted he was thinking with this MTR the only reason it was introduced was because he believed Crenshaw is a racist.

Video is little less than 5 minutes:

After Crenshaw’s speech, the Democrats urged for the MTR to be defeated because illegal immigrants voting in federal and state elections was already illegal. The Democrats were very careful to not say the same about local elections, which is what Crenshaw cited in his speech.

The MTR was defeated by a nearly straight partisan vote 228-197. H.R. 1 was passed by a straight party line vote of 234-193.

During the radio interview yesterday, Jeanne Ives stated the similar radicalism had come to Illinois with the approval of SB 172 during the spring session of the General Assembly.

SB 172 makes it possible for an illegal immigrant to be appointed as a student trustee for public universities in Illinois.

The state senate passed SB 172 on March 20 nearly unanimously, with only 2 dissenting votes, one of them by 14th congressional district candidate Sue Rezin. Jim Oberweis voted in favor of SB 172.

The Illinois House approved SB 172 on May 24 by a straight party line vote. Governor Pritzker signed the bill into law on August 9.

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IL-06: Sean Casten Saying Dan Crenshaw is a Racist and Amendment That Drew Comment from Casten Full Context — 6 Comments

  1. Was it Aristotle or Men In Black that said: ‘Illinois thought is so primitive it’s considered an infectious disease by the rest of the galaxy’?

  2. On October 15, Crenshaw said:

    “When you can’t articulate a coherent argument, you resort to calling your political opponents racist. Can’t say I’m surprised. Just another day in Washington with the Democrat Party.”

    So true. Been going on for years. Many Democrat politicians and Democrats are simply intolerant of different or opposing views on issues.

  3. Godwin’s law (or Godwin’s rule of Hitler analogies) is an Internet adage asserting that “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1”; that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Adolf Hitler or his deeds, the point at which effectively the discussion or thread often ends.

    Promulgated by the American attorney and author Mike Godwin in 1990, Godwin’s law originally referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions.

    It is now applied to any threaded online discussion, such as Internet forums, chat rooms, and comment threads, as well as to speeches, articles, and other rhetoric where reductio ad Hitlerum occurs.

  4. Casten qualifies for the moniker douche of the house, dontcha think?

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