Name: Two GOP lawmakers lose leadership roles after comments critical of Black colleagues
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Description: Rep. Keith Kidwell and Rep. Jeffrey McNeely were asked to step down from party leadership positions after comments directed at other lawmakers.

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OUT HERE AND KEEP YOU UP TO GENERAL. >> THE TRAGIC SCENE THERE IN WAKE COUNTY. THANK YOU, BRETT. >> 2 STATE REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS LOST THEIR LEADERSHIP ROLES AFTER MAKING CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTS DURING A DEBATE ABOUT ABORTION. REPRESENTATIVE KEITH KIDWELL MADE DISPARAGING REMARKS TO STAFFERS ABOUT A LAWMAKER WHO TALKED ABOUT HER FATE IN A DIFFERENT DEBATE ABOUT SCHOOL VOUCHERS. REPRESENTATIVE JEFFREY MCNEELY ASKED A BLACK COLLEAGUE IF YOU WANT TO GO ON TO HARVARD, HAD HE NOT BEEN AN ATHLETE OR A MINORITY WRAL CAPITOL BUREAU CHIEF LAURA LESLIE JOINS US LIVE AFTER HEARING FROM LAWMAKERS WERE PLEASED WITH THIS CHANGE TOMORROW. >> WE KNOW REPRESENTATIVES KEITH KIDWELL AND JEFF MCNEELY WERE SOMEWHERE WHETHER CALL DEPUTY WHIP SO SORT OF SECOND TIER CAUCUS LEADERS. THEY BOTH MADE HEADLINES LAST WEEK FOR CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTS DIRECTED AT BLACK DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS. BOTH MEN ARE STILL POWERFUL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN BUT A SYMBOLIC MOVE TODAY BY THEIR FELLOW REPUBLICANS SENT A CLEAR MESSAGE. >> REPRESENTATIVE KIDWELL OF BEAUFORT AND REPRESENT MCNEELY OF OUR BILL HEMMER IS ON THEIR LEADERSHIP POSITIONS AS A DEPUTY WITH WITHIN THE CAUCUS. THAT SHAKEUP FOLLOWED A VERY TENSE FEW DAYS IN THE STATE HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE JEFF MCNEELY MADE NATIONAL HEADLINES WHEN HE QUESTIONED REPRESENTATIVE ABE JONES WHO IS BLACK ABOUT HIS TIME AT HARVARD, WHICH YOU'VE BEEN ABLE TO MAYBE ACHIEVED THIS. IF YOU WERE NOT. >> AN ATHLETE. OR A MINORITY AND REPRESENTATIVE KEITH KIDWELL COMMENTED THAT REPRESENTATIVE DIAMOND STATON WILLIAMS MUST BE A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF SATAN AS SHE WAS SPEAKING ABOUT HER FAITH. >> HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADERS DIDN'T PUBLICLY CRITICIZED THE COMMENTS UNTIL HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER JOHN BELL ANNOUNCED THAT HIS CAUCUS HAVE DECIDED TO REORGANIZE LEADERSHIP. WE MET AT THE CAUCUS AND JUST FELL LIKE THAT. IT WAS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF OUR OFFICE OF ESSENTIALS, MEMBERS. >> THAT WE RECEIVED IN THE NATION FOR HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADER ROBERT REEVES DID SPEAK OUT PUBLICLY AGAINST THE COMMENTS AT THE TIME THEY WERE MADE. IT IS ABOUT A GENERAL CONSENSUS. >> THAT IS OKAY, TOO. TREAT BADLY. PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT LIKE YOU. HE SEES IT AS PART OF A TREND THAT'S RISING NATIONWIDE. WE CAN'T CHANGE PEOPLE'S HEARTS, BUT I DO THINK THERE IS AN OBLIGATION ON THE PART OF ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS TO HELP DIFFUSE SOME OF THE ANIMALS THAT YOU SEE THROUGHOUT. >> OUR STATE AND OUR COUNTRY, NEITHER KIDWELL NORM AT NEARLY RESPONDED TO OUR REQUEST FOR COMMENT. >> STATON WILLIAMS WAS THE TARGET OF THE CHURCH OF SATAN REMARK. SHE SAID KIDWELL NEVER APOLOGIZED FOR IT. >> I THINK EVERYONE HAS THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUT WE AND THAT FREE FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT WE SAY. >> I ALSO SPOKE WITH JONES TODAY. HE WAS THE TARGET OF THE MILLIONS COMMENT ABOUT HARVARD. HE SAID HE'S GLAD THAT SOMETHING WAS DONE. THE WHOLE THING WAS INSTRUCTIVE THAT WE AREN'T AS FAR AHEAD IN CERTAIN AREAS. AS SOMETIMES WE TAKE CREDIT FOR. HE TOLD ME, YOU

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 Two GOP lawmakers lose leadership roles after comments critical of Black colleagues

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