Iowa Representative Steve King, a Republican, has claimed that the
Obama campaign tracked voters and sought out gay votes.
Appearing at a GOP dinner which also featured Rick Santorum in
Lyon, Iowa, King, a vociferous opponent of gay rights, veered off
topic while discussing NSA surveillance programs.
“I want to tell you the things I'm frustrated about, too,”
King told the crowd. “And that is NSA, the topic's come up
tonight. This idea that we have moved in to somehow a surveillance
state where the federal government can track every phone call, the
source, the destination, the date, the time and the duration of that
phone. Not listen in but track 'em all. They can track your
Internet activity. They can track your credit card number.”
“Oh, by the way, the Obama campaign bragged that they had this
sophisticated computer program that profiled voters. … If you had
go to the Internet and certain places, they said to me in private
[inaudible] conversations, they could track it. If you went the NRA
website for three times, now you are a Second Amendment person –
let's suppress that person's vote. But if somebody goes to a gay
website, let's go out and do the voter turnout with them.”
“They were proud of that,” he added. (The video is embedded
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