GOP state Senator ‘tells Native candidate to go back to where you came from’ and stormed out of Idaho event

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} A Republican State Senator reportedly told a Native American candidate, “Go back to where you came from,” in a heated exchange before storming out of an Idaho forum. Trish Carter-Goodheart, a Democratic candidate for the House District 6 seat and member of the Nez Perce Tribe, said she was “met with hateful, racist remarks” from State Senator Dan Foreman at the bipartisan forum in the north-Idaho town of Kendrick on Monday night. !’” In a follow-up statement on Friday, Carter-Goodheart said she was “not prepared” to have conversations about racism with her two young children, aged eight and five, as a result of the altercation. Idaho GOP State Senator, Dan Foreman, reportedly told a Native American Democratic candidate to ‘go back to where you came from’ in heated exchange Foreman vehemently denies that he made the racist remark and said the incident was a “quintessential display of race-baiting.” “I made no, repeat no, racial slur or statement of any nature,” he said in a statement on Facebook.