Crazy Mike Siegel backed terrorist

In the latest story about Crazy Mike Siegel fawning over leftists, it’s now reported that he signed a letter of support for domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.

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Democratic Texas House candidate Mike Siegel signed letter in support of Bill Ayers
Joseph Simonson & Emily Larsen
Washington Examiner
October 9, 2020
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democratic-texas-house-candidate-mike-siegel-signed-letter-in-support-of-bill-ayers

An association with a one-time domestic terrorist that caused Barack Obama headaches in his 2008 presidential bid is rearing its head again in a Texas House race.

Mike Siegel, an attorney and Democratic candidate for Texas’s 10th District House seat, once signed a letter in support of former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers.

The open letter was hosted on a website created to defend Ayers when his relationship with then-candidate Obama became an issue during the 2008 campaign.

“The current characterizations of Professor Ayers—’unrepentant terrorist,’ ‘lunatic leftist’—are unrecognizable to those who know or work with him,” the letter said. “It’s true that Professor Ayers participated passionately in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, as did hundreds of thousands of Americans. His participation in political activity 40 years ago is history; what is most relevant now is his continued engagement in progressive causes.”

Siegel is No. 768 of 4,291 names on the list, with his affiliation listed as Cornell Law. Siegel graduated from Cornell Law School in 2009, according to his LinkedIn profile. Most of the signatories are academics, including Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe.

Ayers, a longtime cause celebrant of the Left and subject of attacks from the Right, first gained prominence in his role as the leader of communist terrorist group Weather Underground, which was responsible for dozens of bombings from the late 1960s through the 1980s. One attack, the Greenwich Village townhouse bombing in 1970, resulted in the death of three Weatherman members after a nail bomb prematurely detonated.

Following the explosion, Ayers became a fugitive for several years before the charges were eventually dropped following evidence that federal authorities had improperly spied on Weather Underground. Ayers later reinvented himself as a mainstream, left-wing academic who pitched books on education reform and worked with Democratic leaders in Chicago on public school initiatives.

In his post-Weather Underground life, Ayers regularly rubbed elbows with influential academics and politicians, ranging from Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and Obama, with whom he served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, a charitable organization in the city. During the 2008 presidential race, Obama denied any close relationship with Ayers, referring to him once as an “English professor” during a primary debate with Hillary Clinton.

This is not Siegel’s only brush with the far Left. Earlier this year, he came under fire for comments he made in 2014 describing himself as a “red-diaper baby.”

“If I had to describe my parents as political figures, I would borrow from the Cuban revolution, and I would say, in our family, my mom’s the Che, and my dad’s the Fidel,” Siegel said in a speech honoring his parents, according to the Austin News. “But, I want to say that I’m here as a proud, red-diaper baby.”

Siegel is running against incumbent Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, who has held Texas’s 10th District since 2005. The district stretches in eastern Texas between Austin and Houston, and Cook Political Report rates the race as “lean Republican.”

This is Siegel’s second attempt to unseat McCaul. In 2018, Siegel lost to McCaul by 4.3 points.

Siegel’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.