{"id":32578,"date":"2025-07-02T12:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32578\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:39:14","slug":"bo-french-should-resign-as-tarrant-county-gop-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32578\/","title":{"rendered":"Bo French should resign as Tarrant County GOP chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bo French is no stranger to controversy. The chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party is well-known for his divisive social media antics. Last week, he added to a long line of distasteful posts with a poll on X that reeks of anti-Islamic and antisemitic sentiment<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The poll asked \u201cWho is a bigger threat to America?\u201d It offered two response options: Jews or Muslims. <\/p>\n

The post caught the attention of prominent Republicans such as Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick<\/a>, who has called for his resignation. We agree it\u2019s time for French to step down.<\/p>\n

A cursory review of the party boss\u2019s X page<\/a> shows this behavior is hardly out of the ordinary. He said in a post<\/a> last month that \u201ca few well placed snipers would end violent protests in two seconds.\u201d Last year, a series of posts using slurs for gay people and those with disabilities<\/a> earned condemnations from a handful of other Republicans, the Texas Tribune reported. <\/p>\n

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Divisiveness for its own sake is French\u2019s game, and Tarrant County voters deserve better than that. <\/p>\n

Alongside Patrick, other elected officials who have condemned French\u2019s post include: U.S. Sen. John Cornyn<\/a>, U.S. Reps. Jake Ellzey<\/a> and Craig Goldman<\/a>, state Sen. Phil King<\/a>, state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione<\/a>, Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker<\/a> and Dallas City Council Member Cara Mendelsohn<\/a>. <\/p>\n

These people are not the liberal or woke. Most are strongly conservative themselves. <\/p>\n

French said on X that he isn\u2019t resigning<\/a>. He said \u201csome people clearly misunderstood the intent,\u201d this newspaper reported. \u201cThe poll has been deleted. I regret posting it.\u201d French condemned antisemitism and said he has always supported Israel.<\/p>\n

He can defend the post however he\u2019d like. Nothing can change the fact that it was a wide-ranging attack on Jewish and Muslim people. Pretending otherwise is delusional.<\/p>\n

The calls for French\u2019s resignation coming out of the Republican Party are welcome, but the GOP needs to do a much better job of keeping similarly hateful influences out. <\/p>\n

Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Bradford William Davis wrote an insightful op-ed this week<\/a> examining how the GOP has been quick to attack French while continuing to support others like him. <\/p>\n

It strikes us as reminiscent of how in 2023, self-proclaimed neo-Nazi and political commentator Nick Fuentes visited<\/a> the offices of powerful Republican strategist Jonathan Stickland\u2019s firm Pale Horse Strategies.<\/p>\n

Not long after, the Texas Republican Party\u2019s executive committee voted down a clause in a pro-Israel resolution that would have barred \u201cthe party from associating with known Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

It shouldn\u2019t be difficult for our political parties to distance themselves from people like French; it should be imperative. His behavior is exactly the kind of ineffectual, divisive nonsense that shouldn\u2019t be allowed to fester. Our political parties need adults at the helm, and French doesn\u2019t fit that bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bo French is no stranger to controversy. The chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party is well-known for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,6083,7371,7372,80,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-32578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-editorials","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-tarrant-county","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114783686697150217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}