# Six siblings say don't vote for our brother for Congress **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 22, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-siblings-say-dont-vote-for-our-brother-for-congress/821726 "2018-09-22T10:05:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2018, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-siblings-say-dont-vote-for-our-brother-for-congress/821726/1 "2018-09-22T10:05:35Z")
there are 3 other siblings who have not commented on the race. > **[Congressman Paul Gosar's siblings support opposing candidate in stunning...](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/congressman-paul-gosars-siblings-support-opposing-candidate-stunning/story?id=58004736)** ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-siblings-say-dont-vote-for-our-brother-for-congress/821726/2 "2018-09-22T13:28:46Z")
Paul Gosar (R-AZ), since the OP couldn’t be bothered. 538 has that district solidly red FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2018, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-siblings-say-dont-vote-for-our-brother-for-congress/821726/3 "2018-09-22T13:49:00Z")
Goasar votes with the President more than 98% of the time. Thanksgiving is going to be a bit tense. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-siblings-say-dont-vote-for-our-brother-for-congress/821726/4 "2018-09-22T17:22:51Z")
There is no Gosar, only Brill. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-siblings-say-dont-vote-for-our-brother-for-congress/821726/5 "2018-09-22T20:09:04Z")
They made more than one ad. This bit isn’t in the one linked in the OP but it is pretty damning. > [@](#): > > “It would be difficult to see my brother as anything but a racist,” Grace Gosar says in one advertisement. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-siblings-say-dont-vote-for-our-brother-for-congress/821726/6 "2018-09-23T00:43:42Z")
Wow. Calling him out publicly like that took some character. Good for them. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-siblings-say-dont-vote-for-our-brother-for-congress/821726/7 "2018-09-24T15:11:59Z")
When two people tell you you look sick, lie down. When 2/3s of your siblings tell you you’re a terrible representative, I’d say some introspection and probable career-change would be warranted. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-siblings-say-dont-vote-for-our-brother-for-congress/821726/8 "2018-09-24T15:57:07Z")
Meh. I haven’t agreed with my sister politically for 50 years. [Jed Clampett didn’t cotton to Miss Jane running for Congress](https://www.theretrosite.com/articles/nancy-kulp-buddy-ebsen-feud-1984_14.html), either. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-siblings-say-dont-vote-for-our-brother-for-congress/821726/9 "2018-09-24T18:02:32Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Meh. I haven’t agreed with my sister politically for 50 years. It seems to me not agreeing with a sibling politically and not only believing, but coming out publicly and saying, s/he is racist are quite a bit different. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-siblings-say-dont-vote-for-our-brother-for-congress/821726/10 "2018-09-24T22:58:40Z")
Reunions must be a heck of a lot of fun in the Gosar clan. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2018, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-siblings-say-dont-vote-for-our-brother-for-congress/821726/11 "2018-09-24T23:07:25Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > It seems to me not agreeing with a sibling politically and not only believing, but coming out publicly and saying, s/he is racist are quite a bit different. Agreed. This isn’t just a political disagreement. They’re saying he’s not fit to serve. From what I’ve read, I would agree. ---
**Author:** ![JB99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JB99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JB99)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-siblings-say-dont-vote-for-our-brother-for-congress/821726/12 "2018-09-26T23:39:31Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Meh. I haven’t agreed with my sister politically for 50 years. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard this, and it makes me so mad I could pop. This is not a political disagreement. This is a warning about his morality and basic human decency. We’ve been saying this for the last two years, and I still hear this. I’ve had people straight-up call the Obama family a “bunch of niggers” (no, I’m not censoring it) and then claim that my outrage is a ‘political attack.’ The question of whether black Americans count as real human beings isn’t a ‘political’ disagreement. It’s fucking evil and reprehensible that we even have to have this conversation. And yet, here we are. “Oh, you just disagree with me politically.” No, fuckwit, I disagree with the basic premises of your inverted moral universe. And these people wonder why we accuse them of being racists. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-siblings-say-dont-vote-for-our-brother-for-congress/821726/13 "2018-09-27T16:50:42Z")
> [@JB99](#): > > And these people wonder why we accuse them of being racists. Well, to their minds, they _aren’t_ racist. In order to be a racist, whatever it is you have no use for has to be human. After all, nobody calls someone who hates dogs or lions a racist, do they. And to those folks, all those dark-skinned people running around are not human, ergo, they aren’t racist for hating them.