Open Letters
Morvai wrote an open letter to a Hungarian Jew living in New York:
"I would be glad if those who call themselves proud Hungarian Jews would go and play with their own little circumcised pricks instead of slurring me".
Morvai threatened and obscenely cursed the recipient of her letter. There was no legal or political ramification to her actions. She was elected to EP within the same time frame as her letters became public.
Morvai wrote an open letter to Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, United States Ambassador to Hungary, on the occasion that the ambassador visited the headquarters of three parties but not that of the Jobbik, on the night of the 2010 general election. This was answered by Richard Field, an American businessman, living in Hungary, the main financial supporter of the party Politics Can Be Different.
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