Jim Welker, the Colorado representative who thinks Muslims can't be Americans, has resigned:
“It’s something I wanted to do anyway,” he said. “I wanted to make a change. I did not plan on a career in politics.”

“I’d rather spend the summer traveling and camping than knocking on doors,” he said.

Many in the party did not see Welker’s announcement coming.

“It was a shock,” said Jane Peters, secretary of the Larimer County Republican Party. “We were all in shock.”

Shocking, uh huh. What's shocking is that this guy had constituents and if they weren't shamed, like this guy, they'd forthrightly express their unthinking misbeliefs.

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