A progressive group is condemning a Republican state House candidate for offensive social media posts, such one calling a woman who’d reported sexual assault a “psycho gold digger.”
The organization, Alliance for a Better Utah, on Wednesday released a collection of screen grabs taken from the Facebook and Twitter accounts of Fred Johnson, a West Valley City resident who’s running to represent Utah House District 31.
In one tweet from January, he compared Women’s March participants to “pigs” based on an Infowars reporter’s account of the mess the demonstrators left behind.
When commenting on a video of a teachers strike in 2012, he wrote, “Looks like most of those fatties can use the exercise.