The Arizona Capitol Times (subscription required) reports that Tom Husband (right), a former chairman and executive director of the Maricopa County GOP, equated Heather Carter (R-Cave Creek) who supported Arizona’s Medicaid expansion, to the French women whose heads were shaved and paraded before the public following accusations of cavorting with German soldiers during World War II. Former county Republican leader’s head-shaving comments called hateful, mean-spirited:
“Upon the liberation of Paris by the Allied army, I remember watching newsreels of those traitorous women having their heads shaved in revenge for their perfidious conduct,” Husband said in an article distributed by the American Post-Gazette, an outlet for conservative ideas.
After noting Carter’s support for Medicaid expansion, Husband wrote, “The preference election was a chance for Carter’s fellow precinct committeemen to express themselves on her collaboration. And they did! But they didn’t shave her head.”
Husband was referring to a meeting of precinct committeemen from Legislative District 15 last week, when they held a mock election and took a vote on candidates for the district’s House primary.
Carter received only three votes in the mock election, while two other candidates – former legislator David Burnell Smith and Rep. John Allen, R-Scottsdale – got 76 and 74 votes, respectively.
Husband also called Carter a “turncoat” for voting with Democrats to pass Medicaid expansion, which is also a key provision of the federal Affordable Care Act.
