Today a Republican leader had to step down after making some openly subtle racist remarks about a candidate who is running for office, who just happens to be bi-racial...Incredible...and while I would normally fly into a rage...I just shake my head....I guess they are not even going to try to hide it now....
The local Illinois Republican Party official who called a biracial congressional candidate a "street walker" resigned Thursday, after his comments were widely denounced as offensive.
Jim Allen referred to Erika Harold, a lawyer and former Miss America, as a "street walker" and "love child" in an e-mail with racial overtones to the conservative website, Republican News Watch.
Ms. Harold is challenging Rep. Rodney Davis in a GOP primary in Illinois' 13th Congressional District.
"Today, I accepted the resignation of Jim Allen as Montgomery County chairman. These types of offensive and inappropriate remarks have no place in our Republican Party," said Jack Dorgan, chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, in a statement posted on the state GOP's Facebook page.
Jim Allen's resignation came shortly after Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and other GOP officials called on him to step down. The national party has been undergoing a rebranding effort aimed at improving its standing with minorities, who voted overwhelmingly for President Obama in last year's election.
"The astonishingly offensive views expressed by Chairman Allen have absolutely no place among the leaders of our party at any level," Priebus said. "His behavior is inexcusable and must not be tolerated." I on the one hand am at least glad that something is being done about him...Maybe this is a sign that sanity is being restored in the Republican Party.
In his original comments, Allen mocked Harold's Miss America platform focused on abstinence and bullying in schools before making comments about her candidacy. "Now, Miss Queen is being used like a street walker and her pimps are the DEMOCRAT PARTY and RINO REPUBLICANS," he wrote.
Jim Allen had predicted that Davis would defeat Harold, saying she would end up "working for some law firm that needs to meet their quota for minority hires." My My My.......
Davis, a freshman elected in November, already had distanced himself from Allen's comments and removed him from a list of campaign supporters.
Priebus and the national Republican Party have been stepping up their outreach in minority communities after a scathing internal report outlined the GOP's 2012 election failures and shortcomings. The party is investing $10 million on outreach, and Priebus recently held a "listening session" in Cleveland with black community leaders.
Let this be a lesson that trying to appeal to the people's basest instincts and race fears is a pretty tired act.
The buzz words and the code words might have worked maybe even six years ago....but most people...most decent people don't have time for that...
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AMEN!
It is a pretty tired act Keith and I wish they'd stop it!
Woooowww! He just thought he had a chance to knock her off and she probably turned him down. Sooooo just like any other rejected immature man, his stankin butt resulted to name calling! SMH
No low from them surprises me any more.
I would just rather they say it in public than hide behind their desk. So many cowards out there. What is done in the dark comes to the light anyways. Mr Romney 47% comment he is a coward because that was behind closed doors. What is really scary is all the stuff they say that we dont hear. Then they wonder why black people get angry. Like we cant tell they dont like us. Newsflash I can see right through the bullshit charade .
They have the same problem Paula Deen has-open mouth,insert foot!Spewing poison like that,yet wondering why they're losing folks from the party.SMH!!So sad,and wrong,to see their still thinking like Jim-Crow rules today!
This woman has more of everything they don't have...intelligence, accomplishment,etc. and she's attractive. She's got their feathers so ruffled that they can't control themselves or their mouths...if they'r even trying to. Republicans are an angry disenchanted group that can't help themselves right about now...they show their true colors at every turn. Hope the voters remember when election time comes.
She obviously learned nothing from Michael Steele...Come home Sista,that party is not for you!
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