By Jeremy Duda | Arizona Mirror
Incoming House Speaker Rusty Bowers has removed Rep. David Stringer as chair of the new Sentencing and Recidivism Reform Committee after a series of racist remarks he made to college students were reported by a media outlet.
Bowers on Friday said he asked Stringer, R-Prescott, to step down as chair of the committee, and Stringer agreed.
“Representative Stringer’s comments are vile and won’t be tolerated,” Bowers said in a press statement. “Given the diversity of my own family, I take personal offense to these disgusting comments. I gave Representative Stringer a critical assignment as chair of the Sentencing and Recidivism Reform Committee. These comments render him incapable of performing his duties as chair.”
Phoenix New Times revealed on Friday that Stringer told students at Arizona State University earlier this month that African-Americans and other non-whites “don’t blend in” with Americans, while white immigrants from European countries do.
