A Black member of the Clearfield City Council is blasting a conservative Davis County organization after he was singled out in what he says was a racist message posted on its Facebook page.
Karece Thompson, in his second term on the City Council, has received words of support from many fellow Republicans in the wake of the flap, he said. At the same time, the group, Davis County Conservatives, posted a general apology about a “wrong and inappropriate” comment posted on its site, accessible only to members.
But Thompson said the group never offered him a personal apology and he takes umbrage at the turn of events, which picked up steam in a feed on the Twitter account of Utah Sen. Todd Weiler, a Woods Cross Republican who denounced what he termed the “racist comments.” Davis County Conservatives is registered with the state as a political action committee.
“Those people have a history of harassment in general. … They are not worthy of the Republican family,” Thompson said.
Utah State Treasurer Marlo Oaks, a Republican, also chimed in, chiding Davis County Conservatives in a tweet on Monday.
“To say I’m disappointed to learn of racist comments posted in the Davis County Conservatives Facebook group is a huge understatement. I’m even more disturbed to learn that the organization tasked with supporting GOP candidates & events refuses to speak with the individual harmed,” Oaks said in a tweet thread. He went on: “I call on the Davis County Conservatives to publicly apologize to Karece Thompson and to take action to address this harm.”
To learn more about the post and the response, see the full story from the Standard-Examiner.
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