Yellowstone County treasurer's email sparks controversy
Source: KRTV News
An email sent by Max Lenington, the Yellowstone County treasurer, is drawing criticism.
The email, dated November 13, 2012 reads, in part: "It still baffles me as to how he got elected. It must mean there are more lesbians, queers, Indians, Mexicans and n*ggers than the rest of us!"
Lenington said his comment was his reaction to President Barack Obama's re-election.
The email was meant specifically for his sister, but it was sent from his county-issued email address.
When asked by MTN News if he thinks such language is acceptable, Lenington said: "Well, I think the First Amendment guarantees it. Again, I need you to understand that this was a personal email to my sister and it wasn't meant for public (consumption). I don't talk that way in public and I don't talk that way to you."
Read more: http://www.krtv.com/news/yellowstone-county-treasurer-s-email-sparks-controversy/
pothos
(154 posts)People like this don't exist anymore and certainly don't hold any influence!
It's just driven underground or gets called teaparty. Just cuz he's not wearing a hood, doesn't make him any less of a pig.
I'm gunna be sick now.... hurl.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)In other words...I admit I am a 2 faced bigot.
got it.
tecelote
(5,122 posts)No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)Why would one even talk that way to one's sister?
Iggo
(47,564 posts)I know these people.
No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)GentryDixon
(2,957 posts)These people make me ill.
840high
(17,196 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)of becoming an ex-county treasurer.
pothos
(154 posts)doubt he's gonna lose his job anytime soon.
BooBrown
(18 posts)Although the Constitution does guarantee freedom of speech, it does not guarantee freedom of employment. Actions have consequences.
sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)There are 50,000 people in Yellowstone County and 14 of them are Jews. The Jews did it.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)blacks and he sure didn't forget them. Come to think of it I'll bet there's a good chance he's never seen a black person except on TV.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)So this jerk can meet one.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)perhaps some kind folks would like to let him know what they think of him. Or you could just provide him with some kind hints on how to actually format emails to not look like a total fucking douchenozzle.
mlenington@co.yellowstone.mt.gov.
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)when signing up for porn sites.
mt_big_blue_sky
(15 posts)is really quite unbelievable. wOw! Yeah, he's Yellowstone County treasurer, assessor and superintendent of schools.
Read more:
http://billingsgazette.com/search/#ixzz2jQhaIF00
enter: Max Lenington
This guy has GOT to GO!
heaven05
(18,124 posts)will take care of these types one day and all the rest of us. Free at last, free at last.
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)Good Grief! This guy sure has a lot of government jobs. It's as if he wants no competition at that trough.
ashling
(25,771 posts)the acceptability of your ignorant hatefully insensitive language. It does not guarantee that you will not be questioned or called out by MTN News or anybody else for your inappropriate and disgusting malocution (ok, maybe that's not a word, but it should be).
It prohibits government action. Period.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)talks this way. Only, he would have added "dead people and non-existent people," since he thinks voter fraud is the ONLY way Obama was elected, then re-elected.
Sad that so many are fear-based and hateful. Calhoun would have asserted that the stressors commensurate with overpopulation are wreaking havoc just as he predicted in his studies.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)been around 300+ years. Never going away and that's the sad part. The part that pisses me off is that it never should have happened in the first place unless this is supposed to be, to end up where.........?
Divernan
(15,480 posts)And he has a record of plagiarism in multiple letters to the editor. He's really a lot like Dick Chaney - just never made the big time.
http://mtcowgirl.com/tag/max-lenington/
Posted: August 26, 2013 at 12:52 pm
Yellowstone County School Superintendent Caught Plagiarizing Racist Rant
Max Lenington, a Yellowstone County school superintendent has published a letter to the editor in the Billings Gazette to say There is just no possible way; whereby, a white president and his wife could ignore the law, flaunt their position and be the lord of the people, as these two are permitted out of fear for their color.
Republican Max Lenington is the county school superintendent, assessor and treasurer of Montanas largest county. His letter in yesterdays Billings Gazette entitled Why I hate Barack and Michelle Obama bears some striking similarities to this Daily Rant post, Why I do not like the Obamas. The Billings Gazette also has a story out.
Posted: August 26, 2013 at 12:52 pm
Yellowstone County School Superintendent Caught Plagiarizing Racist Rant
Max Lenington is a Yellowstone County school superintendent has published a letter to the editor in the Billings Gazette to say There is just no possible way; whereby, a white president and his wife could ignore the law, flaunt their position and be the lord of the people, as these two are permitted out of fear for their color.
Republican Max Lenington is the county school superintendent and treasurer of Montanas largest county. His letter in yesterdays Billings Gazette entitled Why I hate Barack and Michelle Obama bears some striking similarities to this Daily Rant post, Why I do not like the Obamas. The Billings Gazette also has a story out.
Rant blogger: There is no scenario known to man, whereby a white president and his wife could ignore laws, flaunt their position, and lord over the people as these two are permitted out of fear for their color.
Max Lenington: There is just no possible way; whereby, a white president and his wife could ignore the law, flaunt their position and be the lord of the people, as these two are permitted out of fear for their color.
. . . .
This isnt the first time Lenington has been caught with his hand in the plagiarism cookie jar. A previous letter that Lenington wrote is largely a cut and paste of this World Net Daily petition. Yet another letter to the editor Lenington wrote accuses the president of treason.
Makes you wonder what the punishment for Yellowstone County students caught plagiarizing is.
And he signed his plagiarized letter to the editor as School Superintendent, Assessor and Treasurer.
TeamPooka
(24,248 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)I guess that makes it all right.
maxsolomon
(33,382 posts)There aren't more of those folks than you uptight caucasoids, Max, but add in us tree-hugging latte-sipping gol dang librul america hating caucasoids who vote every fucking time, and there are more of us than you.
Thank Zeus.
indepat
(20,899 posts)society.
Skittles
(153,179 posts)I cannot even imagine receiving an email like that from my brother
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Bortman33
(102 posts)and buy all the hard drives and crush them to oblivion!
If you're just a poor stupid racist, look out.
Hey, how did Broom Hilda Bachman get away with it all these years?
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)VWolf
(3,944 posts)Many white hetero males (including myself) voted for him too. So you can just fuck off and die, you racist, homophobic pig.
On edit: Did I make my feelings sufficiently clear, you miserable, vomitous mass?
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)I wonder if he means people from India or Native Americans.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)struggle4progress
(118,330 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,469 posts)alp227
(32,047 posts)SO WHY WRITE THAT WAY IN AN EMAIL??