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词条 Robert Morrow (Texas politician)
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  1. Background

  2. Political activities

  3. See also

  4. References

{{Infobox Officeholder
| name = Robert Partlow Morrow
| image = File:RobertMorrow.jpg
| imagesize =
| office=Chairman of the Republican Party of
Travis County (Austin), Texas
| term_start=June 13, 2016
| term_end=August 19, 2016
| preceded=James R. Dickey
| succeeded=James Dickey
| birth_date={{birth date and age|1964|6|20}}
| birth_place=Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
| death_date=
| death_place =
| death_cause=
| resting_place=
| residence=Austin, Texas
| alma_mater=Princeton University (1987)
University of Texas at Austin (1990)
| occupation =Investor
Co-author with Roger Stone, The Clintons' War on Women
| spouse =
| children =
| parents = Rosa Partlow Morrow (mother)
| relations =
| awards =
| religion =
| website =
}}Robert Partlow Morrow (born June 20, 1964) is the former chairman of the Republican Party of Travis County in the capital city of Austin, Texas.[1] With nearly 56 percent of the 47,000 ballots cast, he unseated chairman James R. Dickey in the primary election held on March 1, 2016.[2][3] Morrow gave up his post when he filed as a write-in candidate for president.[3]

Background

Morrow is a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, at which his father was engaged in the real estate business. He graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts in history from Princeton University in New Jersey, and received a Master of Business Administration degree in 1990 from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a self-employed investor and author.[5]

Morrow was a star basketball player in high school at Tuscaloosa Academy where his basketball teams were 90-0 from 1981 -1983.[4] He considered himself a political liberal and supported then Governor Michael Dukakis in Dukakis' unsuccessful Democratic 1988 campaign against Republican Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush. As a child, he helped his mother, Rosa Partlow Morrow, first win election in 1978 from legislative district 47 to one of 133 seats on the Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee, a position which his grandfather, William Dempsey "Billy" Partlow, Jr. (1907–1975), had formerly held until his death and which she held first for two years by appointment.[5][6] Like her son, Rosa Morrow was later active in the GOP, having donated $5,000 in 2004 to the Republican National Committee.[7]

Political activities

Morrow has garnered national media coverage for his offensive comments and his erratic behavior on social media.[8] Esquire magazine compared Morrow to then–Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump as reflecting the "rampaging ID" of the party.[9] Morrow said that he planned to use his position "as a bully platform to educate and inform the American public about the criminals and vipers who have run both the Republican and Democratic parties".[10] He remarked that he would out the sexuality of conservatives with a record of anti-gay activism: "I love exposing these sexual hypocrites in the Republican Party".[11] On March 8, a week after his election, a meeting of the Travis County party voted to disavow him. Morrow responded, "I'm going to do what I'm going to do."[10]

Morrow claims that Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, with the help of the CIA, was involved in the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.[5] Morrow owns four hundred books on the assassination and considers himself an expert on the topic.[5] He says the three-pointed jester's hat he wears represents three covered-up murders by U.S. politicians.[12]

Morrow called the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton an "angry bull dyke" and Republican former Governor Rick Perry "a rampaging bisexual adulterer."[13] He says that "much of the Bush family should be in jail."[14]

Governor Greg Abbott, Perry's successor, unable to prevent Morrow from being seated as county chairman, said that he does not consider Morrow a spokesman for the party. Vice chairman Matt Mackowiak called Morrow's election "a coup" and has sought to prevent him from becoming chairman. Morrow said that the leadership which opposes him can "go fuck themselves."[13] Mackowiak also called Morrow "a conspiracy theorist to the extreme" and termed his election as chairman a "disaster" to the party. The chairman principally recruits, trains, and encourages volunteers for the general election and usually shuns political positions for the sake of getting out the vote for the slate of nominees. Travis County is a Democratic stronghold in Texas, but some Republicans have won local offices there in recent years.[14]

Morrow cannot be removed from office except for conviction of a felony. Otherwise, Mackowiak said that he will try to form an alternate Republican organization that will bypass Morrow and with critical establishment support function as the real Republican Party in Travis County for the two years of Morrow's term.[14]

James Dickey attributed his defeat as chairman to voters uninformed about the two candidates and their positions. A similar situation of concern developed when the Democrat District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg of Travis County did not resign in 2013 after her arrest for driving while intoxicated.[14] After two months, Dickey regained the position when Morrow was disqualified for his write-in presidential bid.

In 2015, Morrow co-authored with Roger Stone, and foreword by Kathleen Willey, The Clintons' War on Women.[15] The book has been described by Politico as a "sensational" work that contains "explosive, but highly dubious, revelations about both Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton" with a focus on Bill Clinton sexual misconduct allegations.[16] Morrow calls himself "a truth seeker and a truth teller. Even if it's the ugly truth."[14] In a 2008 article on Morrow, the St. Petersburg Times described him as "devot[ing] his life to hating the Clintons and spreading wild, unsubstantiated allegations about them".[17]

In October 2015, Morrow confronted Chelsea Clinton at a book signing event in Austin, Texas asking if she was the daughter of Webster Hubbell, not Bill Clinton, and also asked if former President Clinton, "also targeted teenage girls, except for sexual reasons?"[18]

Morrow first backed U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas for the 2016 nomination. When Cruz withdrew from the race, Morrow switched his support to party frontrunner Donald Trump,[14] for whom Stone had earlier been an advisor and still supports. Morrow later endorsed Libertarian Gary Johnson for president and stated that he believes the child rape allegations regarding Donald Trump, as detailed in Jane Doe v. Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, are true. In June, 2016 Morrow described Donald Trump as "a disgrace to the human species." Morrow decried U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont as a "coward" and a "loser" for not challenging what Morrow calls "the Hillary Clinton crime family."[5] He strongly opposed Jeb Bush's presidential candidacy in 2016 and though he admits to having voted for George W. Bush twice for both governor and President, he said that he now deeply regrets those decisions. Considered a libertarian, Morrow has formerly supported Ron Paul and Gary Johnson in their unsuccessful presidential bids. Morrow supports abortion and restrictions on immigration. He is very pro-gun rights. He opposes same-sex marriage.[5] Morrow is strongly opposed to Israel.[19][20][21]

On December 6, 2018, he protested George H.W. Bush’s funeral procession, claiming he had murdered Barry Seal.{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}}

See also

{{Portalbar|Alabama|Texas|Politics|History|Business and Economics}}

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/robert-morrow-agrees-hes-out-as-travis-gop-chair/nsMW3/|title=Robert Morrow agrees, he's out as Travis GOP chair|access-date=2016-08-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160829111315/http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/robert-morrow-agrees-hes-out-as-travis-gop-chair/nsMW3/|archive-date=2016-08-29|dead-url=no|df=}}
2. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/03/texas-republican-disaster-new-county-chair-is-conspiracy-theorist-who-tweets-of-feeling-boobylicious/?tid=ptv_rellink|title=Texas Republican 'disaster': New county chair is conspiracy theorist who tweets suggestive photos of women|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=March 3, 2016|accessdate=April 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016171914/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/03/03/texas-republican-disaster-new-county-chair-is-conspiracy-theorist-who-tweets-of-feeling-boobylicious/?tid=ptv_rellink|archive-date=2016-10-16|dead-url=no|df=}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2016/08/25/travis-county-gop-set-try-oust-morrow/|title=Texas GOP Officials: Controversial Travis County Chairman is Out|last=Svitek|first=Patrick|date=2016-08-25|website=The Texas Tribune|access-date=2016-08-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826182543/https://www.texastribune.org/2016/08/25/travis-county-gop-set-try-oust-morrow/|archive-date=2016-08-26|dead-url=no|df=}}
4. ^{{cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uzkdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3aUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2857%2C3706783 | title=Tuscaloosa Academy: 'Simply perfect!' | publisher=The Tuscaloosa News | work=Newspaper | date=20 February 1983 | accessdate=15 January 2019 | author=Carroll, Andrew | pages=1B, 2B}}
5. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2016-03-08/getting-to-know-robert-morrow/|title=Getting to Know Robert Morrow: Newly elected GOP county chair causing a Republican revolt|publisher=The Austin Chronicle|date=March 8, 2016|accessdate=May 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512025441/http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2016-03-08/getting-to-know-robert-morrow/|archive-date=2016-05-12|dead-url=no|df=}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19780611&id=1wcdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-J0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3436,2276483&hl=en|title=Morrow in race for Demo panel|publisher=The Tuscaloosa News|date=June 11, 1978|accessdate=May 19, 2016}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.city-data.com/elec/elec-TUSCALOOSA-AL.html|title=2003 / 2004 Contributions|publisher=city-data.com|accessdate=May 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611041032/http://www.city-data.com/elec/elec-TUSCALOOSA-AL.html|archive-date=2016-06-11|dead-url=no|df=}}
8. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.houstonpress.com/news/travis-countys-robert-morrow-political-outlier-or-more-of-the-same-8223417|title=Travis County's Robert Morrow: Political Outlier or More of the Same?|newspaper=Houston Press|date=March 9, 2016|access-date=April 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414144529/http://www.houstonpress.com/news/travis-countys-robert-morrow-political-outlier-or-more-of-the-same-8223417|archive-date=2016-04-14|dead-url=no|df=}}
9. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a43543/the-new-travis-county-tx-gop-chairman-is-really-something/|title=Somehow, Donald Trump Is Not the GOP's Greatest Embarrassment Right Now|magazine=Esquire|date=April 1, 2016|accessdate=April 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403183810/http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a43543/the-new-travis-county-tx-gop-chairman-is-really-something/|archive-date=2016-04-03|dead-url=no|df=}}
10. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://www.twcnews.com/tx/austin/politics/2016/03/10/rob-morrow-reacts-after-travis-county-gop-disavows-chairman-elect.html|title=Rob Morrow Reacts After Travis County GOP Disavows Chairman-Elect|publisher=Time Warner Cable News|date=March 10, 2016|access-date=April 2, 2016}}
11. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/robert-morrow-closet-gays_us_56e1bfc4e4b065e2e3d51ea5|title=Texas County GOP Chair Has A Shocking Plan For Closeted Republicans|newspaper=The Huffington Post|date=March 10, 2016|access-date=April 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415004551/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/robert-morrow-closet-gays_us_56e1bfc4e4b065e2e3d51ea5|archive-date=2016-04-15|dead-url=no|df=}}
12. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/robert-morrow-holds-first-meeting-as-travis-county/nrpb9/ | title=Robert Morrow holds first meeting as Travis County GOP chairman | publisher=Austin-American Statesman | work=Webzine | date=28 June 2016 | accessdate=29 June 2016 | author=Walsh, Sean Collins | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160702140623/http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/robert-morrow-holds-first-meeting-as-travis-county/nrpb9/ | archive-date=2016-07-02 | dead-url=no | df= }}
13. ^1 Mike Ward, "It's not your father's GOP anymore", San Antonio Express-News, March 6, 2016, p. A 20
14. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{cite web|url=http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/travis-county-gop-officials-seek-to-remove-new-cha/nqbz9/|title=Robert Morrow, new Travis GOP chair, faces party revolt|date=March 2, 2016|publisher=Austin American-Statesman|author=Katie Urbaszewski and Collins Walsh|accessdate=May 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507231922/http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/travis-county-gop-officials-seek-to-remove-new-cha/nqbz9/|archive-date=2016-05-07|dead-url=no|df=}}
15. ^{{cite book|title=The Clintons' War on Women|publisher=Skyhorse Publishing|location=New York City|date=2015|isbn=978-1-5107-0678-1|pages=352}}
16. ^Nick Hass, Trump embraces sensational anti-Clinton book by former aide Roger Stone {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160517182234/http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/donald-trump-roger-stone-controversial-clinton-book-214790 |date=2016-05-17 }}, Politico (October 14, 2015).
17. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/29/Worldandnation/Some_people_just_love.shtml|newspaper=St. Petersburg Times|title=Some people just love to hate the Clintons|date=February 29, 2008|accessdate=April 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422222430/http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/29/Worldandnation/Some_people_just_love.shtml|archive-date=2016-04-22|dead-url=no|df=}}
18. ^{{cite news | url=http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/12/chelsea-clinton-expertly-handles-activists-questions-about-bills-sexual-past-video/ | title=Chelsea Clinton Expertly Handles Activist's Questions About Bill's Sexual Past | work=Webzine | date=12 October 2015 | accessdate=28 June 2016 | author=Hunter, Derek | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808184043/http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/12/chelsea-clinton-expertly-handles-activists-questions-about-bills-sexual-past-video/ | archive-date=2016-08-08 | dead-url=no | df= }}
19. ^{{cite tweet|user=RobMorroLiberty|author=Robert Morrow|number=573665273128988673|date=6 March 2015|title=USA support for Zionism is a CURSE on American foreign policy.}}
20. ^{{cite tweet|user=RobMorroLiberty|author=Robert Morrow|number=573986276593917952|date=6 March 2015|title=USA support for Zionism and the nation of Israel is a curse upon American foreign policy!!! Much of the world hates us for this.}}
21. ^{{cite tweet|user=RobMorroLiberty|author=Robert Morrow|number=712061737587974144|date=21 March 2016|title=Ted Cruz's AIPAC speech shows he has his tongue so far up the ass of Zionists that it is disturbing in the extreme. Zionism is racism, sorry}}
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