Prominent Republican Finally Calls On Anti-Gay RNC Official To Resign, Ignores Own Family’s Intolerance | The National Memo

Now, a prominent Michigan Republican has finally spoken out against a “culture of intolerance.” Betsy DeVos has called on Agema to resign and for chairman Reince Priebus to remove him from the RNC if the committeeman refuses to do so.

“The expectation of leaders in a party is to stand up in situations like this,” DeVos, former chairperson of Michigan’s GOP, told The Detroit News. “Failing to do so will have consequences.”

The obvious implication is that donations will be withheld if Agema retains his position.

DeVos is a member of the royal family of Michigan conservative politics. Her husband — an heir to the Amway fortune — was a former GOP nominee for governor and a major financial backer of the anti-union law passed by a lame-duck state legislature in 2012. Her brother, Erik Prince, worked in George H.W. Bush’s White House and became the founder and former CEO of the private military firm Blackwater, which is now known as Academi.

Thus her threat has real significance — and it is also wrought with real hypocrisy.

Prominent Republican Finally Calls On Anti-Gay RNC Official To Resign, Ignores Own Family’s Intolerance | The National Memo