Top GOP officials on Long Island blasted the New York Young Republicans after the group’s vile group chats revealed them praising Hitler and casually talking about rape.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman blasted the now-disbanded group, which has previously supported the county Republican Party.
“The so-called Young Republicans who espouse values contrary to our party’s principles and my values are not welcome in my campaign,” Blakeman told The Post Friday.
Nearly 3,000 pages of messages first obtained by Politico showed Young Republicans making jokes about the Holocaust and spewing slurs against black people.
Other messages mocked sexual assault victims and described rape as “epic.”
But Nassau Democrats said Blakeman’s statement was too little, too late — claiming Blakeman and the GOP only spoke up after learning Democrats were planning to publicly call them out for staying silent in the first four days of the scandal.
“Leadership is doing what’s right when no one is looking, and over the last four days when no one was looking, Bruce Blakeman could have said something — but he said nothing,” Seth Koslow, the Democratic candidate running against Blakeman in November, told reporters Friday.
The New York Republican State Committee voted to formally disband the chapter and strip its charter Friday, calling the members’ text messages “vile” and “indefensible.”
The New York State Young Republican Club could be reorganized at a later date with new leaders in an effort to regain its charter.
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