Nada Elmikashfi is a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for State Senate District 26.
Elmikashfi criticized Carpenter's proposal to make criminal felons out of anyone defacing a statue, an initiative echoing Donald Trump's protect-the-statues crusade.
Writes Elmikashfi on July 16, commenting on Carpenter's co-authorship of a Senate initiative seeking sponsors:
"Get me in the senate so I can block this absolute bullshit. You
shouldn’t have been assaulted Senator Carpenter; but that doesn’t mean
you get to block our civil rights movement. If this is passed on a
bipartisan basis; @GovEvers needs to veto it. #BlackLivesMatter."
Carpenter is a right-wing legislator from Milwaukee, and is a longtime champion of the drug war used by police against black and brown people. Carpenter is aiming fire at protesters now, and particularly at perceived enemies of color.
Carpenter responded to Elmikashfi by engaging in several acts of harassment, including spamming Ms. Elmikashfi's social media account, an action that resulted in Carpenter's account getting suspended.
A sitting Democratic Wisconsin Senator is harassing me by posting the same screenshot over and over on my feed. This is what happens when you confront white fragility. My goodness is there a lot of work to do. pic.twitter.com/YmtaySUxsA— Nada Elmikashfi for WI Senate (@nada4wisconsin) July 19, 2020
My full statement after conversation with both @SenBewley and @benwikler. They both recognise the work that has yet to be done within the Democratic Senate caucus and the Democratic Party. pic.twitter.com/VVLNVB7Es2— Nada Elmikashfi for WI Senate (@nada4wisconsin) July 20, 2020
Carpenter made national news in late June after he started a confrontation with Black Lives Matter protesters in a feared attempt to leak photos to white supremacists who routinely use such photos to dox, (publish private or identifying information about a particular individual on the Internet, typically with malicious intent), liberation protesters.
@TimCarpenterMKE - this is complete garbage. Are you really on the side of the protestors when you do things like this? Also, don’t film protestors - you put them at risk for doxxing.— ✊🏼 Black Lives Matter 😷 (@neibaryan) July 16, 2020
Over the weekend, a member of our caucus, Sen. Carpenter, continued a heated discussion he had been having with state senate candidate, Nada Elmikashfi, on social media. I have spoken with Tim, & he recognizes that his behavior crossed a line, and that he behaved inappropriately.— Janet Bewley (@SenBewley) July 20, 2020
Senator Carpenter is preparing a public apology and is committed, as are all of us in the caucus, to truly listening and working to bring about positive change.— Janet Bewley (@SenBewley) July 20, 2020
Reports
The Capital Times:
Wisconsin's Democratic leaders are denouncing "online bullying" perpetrated by Sen. Tim Carpenter, D-Milwaukee, after he targeted Madison Senate candidate Nada Elmikashfi in a flurry of Twitter posts over the last few days that eventually led to the brief suspension of his account for harassment.Both the state Democratic Party and Senate Minority Leader Janet Bewley decried Carpenter's actions in statements Monday morning, noting the Milwaukee senator's behavior "crossed the line.""Nobody should be subjected to online bullying, which disproportionately harms women and people of color — not during this moment of long-overdue reckoning with racial justice, and not ever," party officials wrote in their statement.
Stay tuned to Tim Carpenter. It's not just harassment and enabling doxxing that Carpenter does.Nobody should be subjected to online bullying, and Sen. Carpenter’s actions with regards to Nada Elmikashfi on Saturday night crossed the line. Statement from @wisdems chair @benwikler: https://t.co/dcKTmhtGJX pic.twitter.com/pmBGyTorq5— Wisconsin Democrats (@WisDems) July 20, 2020
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