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Republican party withdraws support for Fawell over conspiracy theories
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| Last Edited | ev Aug 09, 2018 01:49am |
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| Author | SARAH HAYDEN |
| News Date | Wednesday, August 8, 2018 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ROCK ISLAND — Republican party officials are withdrawing support for 17th Congressional District candidate Bill Fawell after reviewing alleged conspiracy theories posted by Fawell on social media.
Fawell, 64, will face U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Moline, in the November general election.
State Republican party chairman Tim Schneider, Rock Island County Republican party central committee chair Drue Mielke, and Republican state central committeeman for the 17th Congressional District, Jan Weber, removed their support of Fawell on Tuesday.
All three officials cite posts on Fawell’s campaign Facebook page, Elect Fawell, in which Fawell appears to support 9/11 conspiracy theories, and called some mass shootings “false flag” events. |
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