--- title: Todd Kincannon of the Tea Party Offends California Shooting Victims description: The latest entries in Todd Kincannon controversial Twitter feed canonical: https://time.com/116926/tea-party-politician-offends-with-tweets-about-shooting-victims/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-27T00:39:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:02:54.874Z article:section: Politics og:title: Todd Kincannon of the Tea Party Offends California Shooting Victims og:description: The latest entries in Todd Kincannon controversial Twitter feed og:url: https://time.com/116926/tea-party-politician-offends-with-tweets-about-shooting-victims/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Todd Kincannon of the Tea Party Offends California Shooting Victims twitter:description: The latest entries in Todd Kincannon controversial Twitter feed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Tea Party Activist Offends With Tweets About Shooting Victims  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent May 27, 2014 12:39 AM CUT  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent May 27, 2014 12:39 AM CUT **Correction appended, May 26** J. Todd Kincannon, the former chairman of the election commission in Simpsonville, S.C., has been known to say some offensive things. He recently said transgender people should be [“put in a camp](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/parker-marie-molloy/todd-kincannon-transgender-camps%5Fb%5F4100777.html "undefined")“; he [tweeted](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/05/todd-kincannon-racist-twitter-south-carolina-republican-super-bowl%5Fn%5F2622903.html "undefined"), “Hey what’s the difference between Trayvon Martin and a dead baby? They’re both dead, but Pepsi doesn’t taste like Trayvon”; and he once called Wendy Davis a [“whore.](http://aattp.org/vile-teapublican-todd-kincannon-has-wendy-davis-meltdown-on-twitter/ "undefined")” So it’s no surprise that he had something controversial to say about the recent murder spree in California that left six college students dead. It’s hard to tell when his Twitter rant actually began, but since the incident at the University of California Santa Barbara, Kincannon has been tweeting almost nonstop about his right to own a gun. _Correction:_ _The original version of this story and headline incorrectly described Todd Kincannon._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/116926/tea-party-politician-offends-with-tweets-about-shooting-victims/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/116926/tea-party-politician-offends-with-tweets-about-shooting-victims/"},"headline":"Tea Party Activist Offends With Tweets About Shooting Victims","datePublished":"2014-05-27T00:39:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:02:54.874Z","description":"The latest entries in Todd Kincannon's controversial Twitter feed","url":"https://time.com/116926/tea-party-politician-offends-with-tweets-about-shooting-victims/","keywords":["Internet","Crime","Gun Control","Tea Party"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/internet/","name":"Internet"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/116926/tea-party-politician-offends-with-tweets-about-shooting-victims/","name":"Tea Party Activist Offends With Tweets About Shooting Victims"}}]}] ```