Jason Spencer’s Sacha Baron Cohen Segment Has People Calling For Him To Step Down

Author: Joseph D. Lyons / Source: Bustle

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If Who Is America? builds on each episode’s antics, you won’t be able to watch until the end of the season — and those who have already been interviewed ought to worry. Republican lawmaker Jason Spencer was trending on Twitter, with some asking the controversial Republican to step down for his behavior on the Sacha Baron Cohen Showtime show.

Earlier in the week Spencer had

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into yelling “provocative language,” but that is an understatement. In what was explained to Spencer as a training video for elected officials to help them survive terrorist attacks, he engaged in racist, homophobic, and Islamophobic strategies, as suggested by Cohen’s alter ego, the fake Israeli terrorism expert Col. Erran Morad. He bared his behind, yelled the N-word, and more.

That led the Twitterverse and other politicians to ask for the lawmaker to step down. Spencer currently serves as a state representative in south Georgia. He already lost in the Republican primary and will be out of a job soon, albeit not soon enough for many. Political leaders in Georgia have asked that he resign immediately, including Georgia House Speaker David Ralston, a Republican.

“The actions and language used on this video are reprehensible. Representative Spencer has disgraced himself and should resign immediately.

Georgia is better than this,” Ralston said in a statement.

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