Former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner (D) condemned the New Hampshire Libertarian Party’s Twitter account for being “racist and anti-Black” after the party brought up her “picking crops” in a tweet on Tuesday.
Turner, who ran in the Democratic primary for Congress in a 2021 special election and again in 2022, argued in a tweet that both insulin and medicine “should be free,” to which the New Hampshire party responded that “Nina Turner picking crops should be free.”
The state party’s account, which was in the news last year for firing off a series of controversial tweets, added that Turner’s call for free insulin “is equally offensive as calling for someone to be compelled to pick crops.”
“They are the same moral statement, and we should react to them with identical moral abhorrence,” the account argued.
Turner bashed the party for its tweet, writing: “This is racist and anti-Black. Period. In no way is advocating for free insulin comparable to chattel slavery. Shameful & uneducated.”