PHOENIX — The latest comments by a Prescott Republican lawmaker about race, immigration and assimilation have cost him the chairmanship of a committee he has sought for years.
Incoming House Speaker Rusty Bowers said Rep. David Stringer agreed at his request to resign his post Friday after publication by Phoenix New Times of remarks he made to students two weeks ago at Arizona State University following a lecture by Prof. Don Critchlow, a specialist on political history, on the election results. Stringer said assimilation doesn’t work with African-Americans and other racial groups “because they don’t melt in, they don’t blend in, they always look different.”
