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cali

(114,904 posts) Thu Jun 20, 2013, 07:30 PM Jun 2013

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GOP official out after ‘racist rant’ about fmr. Miss America

Still no armistice in the GOP war on women and minorities…

An Illinois Republican official resigned Thursday, after writing a vicious attack on a biracial, female congressional candidate–calling her the “love child” of the Democratic National Committee, destined to work for “some law firm that needs to meet their quota for minority hires.”

The target was Erika Harold, a former Miss America and Harvard Law graduate who is seeking the Republican nomination for the 13th congressional district in central Illinois.

Montgomery County GOP Chairman Jim Allen referred to Harold as “miss queen,” and said that she was “being used like a street walker,” whose “pimps are the DEMOCRAT PARTY and RINO REPUBLICANS.” Allen sent the email to the conservative website Republican News Watch, which posted the text in full and called it a “racist rant.”

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http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/06/20/gop-official-out-after-racist-rant-about-fmr-miss-america/

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GOP official out after ‘racist rant’ about fmr. Miss America (Original Post) cali Jun 2013 OP

This is why she's a Republican? pscot Jun 2013 #1

NBC should have left out the quote marks Enrique Jun 2013 #2

pscot

(21,024 posts)

1. This is why she's a Republican?

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Thu Jun 20, 2013, 07:56 PM

Jun 2013

Enrique

(27,461 posts)

2. NBC should have left out the quote marks

Reply to cali (Original post)

Thu Jun 20, 2013, 07:59 PM

Jun 2013

go out on the shortest limb in the world and call it a racist rant, which it obviously was.

Same goes for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, no "allegedly" about it.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/kevin-mcdermott/illinois-gop-official-pens-allegedly-racist-attack-on-black-gop/article_b8f1e7a7-5cb5-5cab-876e-9f36c5a997a7.html?mode=comments

Illinois GOP official pens allegedly racist attack on black GOP candidate

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