Neil for Arkansas campaign fundraising message
- Arkansas GOP officials aren’t supporting Neil Kumar’s bid for Congress due to his extremist views.
- Kumar raised money Thursday using transphobic and homophobic language.
- He is also tarring his political opponents in both parties as “demons” and “predators.”
US House hopeful Neil Kumar of Arkansas leaned into the nation’s culture wars hard on Thursday, seeding a fundraising appeal with homophobic attacks and apocalyptic imagery.
The “LBGT Groomers Want Your Kids” email blast is straight from the MAGA culture wars playbook, portraying public schools as “psychological torture camps,” pedophilia as the greatest threat humanity has ever faced, and existing politicians — Democrats and Republicans, in this case — as part of a systemic problem.
“Education has been replaced by the promotion of the depraved LGBT agenda, a Satanic attack on God and Nature,” Kumar wrote, adding that “sodomite predators are grooming, brainwashing, and mutilating our vulnerable children.”
As for the term LGBT, which refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons, Kumar wrote: “I call it LGBTP — the P is for pedophilia.”
Kumar’s fundraising pitch continues with horror stories about transgender children in California and Virginia, but does not reference any LBGT-related issues in Arkansas 3rd congressional district, where he is actually running.
Kumar did not immediately respond to Insider’s requests for comment about his fundraising appeal.
That evil-is-everywhere outlook spooked state party officials months ago.
Arkansas GOP party chairman Jonelle Fulmer tagged Kumar as a “non-recommended candidate” last fall, adding that it wouldn’t endorse or defend “racist, bigoted, sexist or threatening language by any candidate.”
Kumar, who is challenging six-term GOP Rep. Steve Womack, embraced the snub.
“I view publicly losing the endorsement of the pro-illegal immigrant, pro-China Arkansas Republican Party — whose top priority is protecting Walmart, Tyson’s Chicken, and China’s bag man Steve Womack and his good pals Tom Cotton and John Boozman — as a badge of honor,” Kumar wrote to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in an email panning his sitting representative and both senators from Arkansas.
“Unlike those corporate-funded clowns, I’m running for Congress to fight for the people of Arkansas — not Walmart, not China, and not the D.C. special interests who are giving away the birthrights of heritage Americans,” he wrote.
Kumar’s campaign platform includes a call to “fight LGBTQ perversion” and to “investigate, charge, and punish every entity involved in the brazen theft of the 2020 election.”
In a 2021 post to his Facebook page, Kumar appears dressed in a Confederate battle flag tie and suspenders.
His extreme-right fundraising pitches have not, however, proven lucrative: As of March 31, Kumar’s campaign reported about $29,000 cash on hand and $30,000 worth of debt from money Kumar himself loaned his campaign, according to disclosures filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Kumar’s campaign raised less than $18,000 between January 1 and March 31, FEC records indicate.
The GOP primary in Arkansas is scheduled for May 24.
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