GOP Congressman Says NCAA ‘Elitists’ Stripping NC of Championship Games Is Extortion

Tea Party GOP Rep Is Also an Ordained Southern Baptist Preacher Who Fully Supports HB2

U.S. Congressman Mark Walker blasted the NCAA Tuesday afternoon, calling officials at the college sports regulatory association “elitists” and charging them with attempting to extort North Carolina over Gov. Pat McCrory‘s anti-LGBT law HB2.

Calling Monday’s announcement by the NCAA – that it is moving all championship games out of North Carolina over HB2 – “disappointing and perplexing,” Rep. Walker praised his home state’s “distinguished record of hosting NCAA events, providing a safe, respectful and inclusive environment for athletes and fans.”

Walker, a freshman Tea Party Republican Congressman who is also an ordained Southern Baptist Preacher, fully supports the discriminatory law Gov. McCrory signed and has been defending for the past six months.

“We will not be intimidated by elitists who are attempting to extort and embarrass North Carolina for defending its citizens,” Rep. Walker said in a statement on his official U.S. House website. “If the NCAA wants to refuse to hold the tournament in the state with one of the richest collegiate sports histories and the fastest growing economy in the nation, that is their decision. For us, the privacy, safety and dignity of our women and children do not have a price tag.”

This is far from Walker’s first defense of HB2, which bans transgender people from using the restrooms that correspond with their gender identity.

In April, Walker called Bruce Springsteen a “bully” who “is known to be on the radical left,” after the rocker canceled a concert to protest HB2.

Walker is also known for his other extreme positions.

In 2014 he told voters he would be happy to start a war against Mexico to protect America’s borders. 

“I will tell you if you have foreigners who are sneaking in with drug cartels to me that is a national threat,” Walker told a Tea Party group in Sept. of 2014. “And if we got to go laser or blitz somebody with a couple of fighter jets for a little while to make our point, I don’t have a problem with that either. So yeah, whatever we need to do.”

 

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