Ex-Florida Secretary of State Mike Ertel apologizes for blackface photos, blames 'act of revenge'
Source: Orlando Sentinel
Former Florida Secretary of State Mike Ertel apologized Sunday for the blackface photos that led to his resignation last month and blamed their public reveal on an “act of revenge.”
The comments by Ertel, the first since he resigned within hours of the Tallahassee Democrat newspaper showing the photos to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office on Jan. 24, comes two days after Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam was caught up in his own blackface scandal, for which he has refused to resign despite Democrats and Republicans alike calling for him to step aside.
In a Facebook post on his personal page Sunday, Ertel wrote, “I'm a better man than I was fourteen years ago. Yet over the past week I have been rightfully apologizing for something I did Halloween night, 2005. For those who have not received a personal apology yet — I’m sorry.”
Ertel, 49, a Republican, told the Tallahassee Democrat last month that he was the man “in blackface and red lipstick, wearing earrings and a New Orleans Saints bandanna, and falsies (large fake breasts) under a purple T-shirt that had ‘Katrina Victim’ written on it.” The photos were taken two months after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast in August 2005, leading to an estimated 1,836 deaths.
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By Steven Lemongello
Orlando Sentinel
FEBRUARY 3, 2019, 10:50 AM
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Why are so many fine and upstanding politicians being outed in acts of revenge these days? 
