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"State Republican chair Jennifer Horn said a Republican state Representative should immediately apologize for comments he made about domestically abused women on Facebook earlier in the week.However, state Rep. Kyle Tasker, R-Nottingham, said Thursday that he has nothing to apologize about because his \"intent was pure.\"\"I didn't mean that as a joke, it was a t-shirt print I thought was pretty ridiculous that someone would wear that around,\" Tasker said.Democrats and Tasker's fellow Republicans have called his statement offensive.Tasker posted a picture of two stick figures with sexually graphic language on a local tea party Facebook page Monday. Republican, like Rick Santorum's former national campaign manager called out Tasker for saying it was \"over the line.\"In the days since he posted the picture, a few left leaning national media outlets picked up on the controversy. This, in turn, has picked up conversation locally.\"The Republican Party and House Republican leader Gene Chandler need to disavow this latest in a long series of embarrassing incidents involving Republican officials. Tasker has shown a disturbing lack of respect for survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse. Half of homicides in New Hampshire are domestic violence related\" said New Hampshire Democratic Party chair Ray Buckley. \"It is far past time for Republican Chairman Jennifer Horn and House Republican leader Gene Chandler to put a stop to the juvenile, repugnant and offensive behavior of their colleagues,\"said Buckley. \"Enough is enough. Every time we think a Republican member of the legislature has set a new low, another one does something worse.\"\u00A0Horn did distanced herself from Tasker's comments.\"Representative Tasker's post was grossly offensive and has no place in public discourse. He should apologize immediately,\"Horn said.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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