Tarrant County GOP set to vote on whether to remove vice-chairman because he's Muslim

Shahid Shafi identifies as a Republican because of his firm belief in small government, lower taxes and secure borders. But his commitment to core GOP values hasn’t shielded him from ire within his own party.

A group of Tarrant County Republicans will vote Thursday evening on whether to remove Shafi as vice-chairman of the county party after a small faction of members put forth a formal motion to oust him because he's Muslim.

Those in favor of the motion to recall Shafi, a trauma surgeon and member of the Southlake City Council, have said he doesn’t represent all Tarrant County Republicans. They've also said Islamic ideologies run counter to the U.S. Constitution — an assertion many Texas GOP officials have called bigoted and Shafi himself has vehemently denied.

“This is, unfortunately, not the first time that people or my political opponents have tried to use my religion against me to distract the voters,” Shafi, who declined to be interviewed by The Texas Tribune before Thursday’s vote, told The Washington Post. “And unfortunately, I don’t think it will be the last either.”

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/01/09/tarrant-county-gop-muslim-shahid-shafi/?

Man dragged dead, bloody raccoon into San Francisco McDonald’s, video shows

Customers at a San Francisco McDonald’s probably didn’t have much of an appetite after what they witnessed early Sunday morning.

A man brought in a dead, bloody raccoon to the fast-food restaurant at 16th Street and Potrero Avenue, KRON reports. A profanity-laced video captured at the scene by 54-year-old Chris Brooks — which has been viewed more than 100,000 times on Facebook — shows a man sitting calmly next to the table with the raccoon, and blood pooling from the raccoon’s mouth.

“Only in San Francisco!” Brooks said in his recording of the incident. “He needs to go to jail!”

https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article224206910.html

hilarious