CHRIS LEE RESIGNATION (bus inner city blacks to the farms to pick)

Source: Buffalo News

Congressional candidate Jack Davis shocked local Republican leaders in a recent interview when he suggested that Latino farmworkers be deported -- and that African-Americans from the inner city be bused to farm country to pick the crops.

"I was thunderstruck," said Amherst GOP Chairman Marshall Wood. "Maybe in 1860 that might have been seen by some as an appropriate comment, but not now."

Davis spokesman W. Curtis Ellis acknowledged that Davis' comments "may not be politically correct and ... may not be racially correct."

Read more: http://www.buffalonews.com/topics/chris-lee/special-election/article367437.ece

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Resigned? He should have been run out of town!!!

unfortunately darwinism dictates that the more cunning ones who can keep their traps shut will survive.

Didn't the other guy resign for suggesting a eugenic solution to people with disabilities?

two down....a couple hundred left to go.

Are they holding a contest or something?

It looks like Lee is the one who made the comment about "busing blacks in", when in fact he's already resigned and it's the tool that's running to replace him that said that.


Thanks!

think this anyway. They want to "Take this country back" to the 19th Century in so many ways!!

had on local manufacturing and the effect illegal immigration has had on the country. Sources said he repeated those sentiments in the February meeting with GOP leaders.

"The most racist part was where he said he was busing the blacks in to pick the vegetables," Brown said.

Davis' comment came in response to a question about immigration, a major issue in the rural parts of the 26th District, where many farmers rely on migrant workers -- who are supposed to be on a temporary work visa -- to pick the crops. When Davis made his comment, "the room sort of went silent," Brown said. "It was like: Did I just hear that?"

Davis, an Akron industrialist, ran for Congress as a Democrat in 2004, 2006 and 2008, and was seeking the GOP nod this time. Spurned by the party, he is now collecting signatures in hopes of appearing as the Tea Party candidate in the May 24 special election."

This guy has gone from Democrat to repub to teabagger. Looks like he may finally have found a suitable home for his wacko views.

Source: Buffalo News

Congressional candidate Jack Davis shocked local Republican leaders in a recent interview when he suggested that Latino farmworkers be deported -- and that African-Americans from the inner city be bused to farm country to pick the crops.

"I was thunderstruck," said Amherst GOP Chairman Marshall Wood. "Maybe in 1860 that might have been seen by some as an appropriate comment, but not now."

Davis spokesman W. Curtis Ellis acknowledged that Davis' comments "may not be politically correct and ... may not be racially correct."

Read more: http://www.buffalonews.com/topics/chris-lee/special-election/article367437.ece

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Resigned? He should have been run out of town!!!

Wow!!!!!

Source: Buffalo News

Congressional candidate Jack Davis shocked local Republican leaders in a recent interview when he suggested that Latino farmworkers be deported -- and that African-Americans from the inner city be bused to farm country to pick the crops.

"I was thunderstruck," said Amherst GOP Chairman Marshall Wood. "Maybe in 1860 that might have been seen by some as an appropriate comment, but not now."

Davis spokesman W. Curtis Ellis acknowledged that Davis' comments "may not be politically correct and ... may not be racially correct."

Read more: http://www.buffalonews.com/topics/chris-lee/special-election/article367437.ece

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Resigned? He should have been run out of town!!!

to Siberia is gone as well. I'm searching, but can find no news of Virgil Peck in Kansas, who would like to gun down illegal immigrants from a helicopter

http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/virgil-peck-reprehensible-immigrant-remark/


Looks like, the more these cretins have to say, the more they have to resign, one by one. Works for me!!

just curious,all things being the same and if he Jack Davis or anyone else for that matter would have proposed bussing
black inner city kids to factory jobs,what would be your response ?

....(snip)Now, in the United States, the despised work of agriculture is done by the still-surviving and always struggling small farmers, and by many Mexican and Central American migrant laborers who live and work a half step, if that, above slavery. The work of the farmland, in other words, is now accomplished by two kinds of oppression, and most people do not notice, or if they notice they do not care. If they are invited to care, they are likely to excuse themselves by answers long available in the "public consciousness": Farmers are better off when they lose their farms. They are improved by being freed of the "mind-numbing work" of farming. Mexican migrant field hands, like Third World workers in our sweatshops, are being improved by our low regard and low wages. And besides, however objectionable from the standpoint of "nostalgia," the dispossession of farmers and their replacement by machines, chemicals, and oppressed migrants is "inevitable," and it is "too late" for correction.
Such talk, it seems to me, descends pretty directly from the old pro-slavery rhetoric: Slavery was an improvement over "savagery," the slaves were happy in their promotion, slavery was sanctioned by God. The moral difference is not impressive.

But the prejudice against rural people is not merely an offense against justice and common decency. It also obscures or distorts perception of issues and problems of the greatest practical urgency. The unacknowledged question beneath the dismissal of the agrarian small farmers is this: What is the best way to farm--not anywhere or everywhere, but in every one of the Earth's fragile localities? What is the best way to farm this farm? In this ecosystem? For this farmer? For this community? For these consumers? For the next seven generations? In a time of terrorism? To answer those questions, we will have to go beyond our preconceptions about farmers and other "provincial" people. And we will have to give up a significant amount of scientific objectivity, too. That is because the standards required to measure the qualities of farming are not just scientific or economic or social or cultural, but all of those, employed all together.

This line of questioning finally must encounter such issues as preference, taste, and appearance. What kind of farming and what kind of food do you like? How should a good steak or tomato taste? What does a good farm or good crop look like? Is this farm landscape healthful enough? Is it beautiful enough? Are health and beauty, as applied to landscapes, synonymous?

With such questions, we leave objective science and all other specialized disciplines behind, and we come to something like an undepartmented criticism or connoisseurship that is at once communal and personal. Even though we obviously must answer our questions about farming with all the intellectual power we have, we must not fail to answer them also with affection. I mean the complex, never-completed affection for our land and our neighbors that is true patriotism.

http://www.progressive.org/node/1596

After reading the article I had to admit that what made his statement come off as racist was that it evoked the image of blacks working "in the field" which, in turn, evoked the image of slavery. But on the other hand he sounds as though he just wants to put poor people to work. I found this comment in the comments section rather interesting:

Interesting isn't it how Mr. Davis's suggestion that Americans, the most underemployed Americans, urban blacks be given a chance at employment at decent wages over illegal aliens who send their money back out of the country was recieved at the party line level. I wonder what "thunderstruck" the party rabble the most...offering Americans jobs, offering African Americans jobs, or the decent pay thing? Holy racism Batman!

The guy may or may not be a racist (don't know much about him--although he kinda sounds like a political opportunist) but I think his comments are worthy of a broader, more interesting discussion.

the article says Chris Lee (internet flirting with someone other than his wife) resigned.

You keep repeating your excerpts and it's misleading....are you doing this on purpose?

The man who said these things is still running for office.

Chris Lee is the dude who was caught trading half naked photos with women on CraigsList.

Is that new GOP code for the social prohibition against calling people n*ggers?

and the special election that's being held. It's the newspaper's category for these stories. (Which can be confusing.)

Jack Davis, who made those racist remarks, hasn't resigned.

Will you please alert a mod (yes, you can alert on your own OP) and ask them to lock this topic? The story itself isn't new -- we've seen other posts about Davis -- and your subject line is completely wrong and misleading.

i am asking them to lock the thread--i originally posted this in the breaking news and had to use the original headline--then i edited and it got messed up--then it got moved by the moderator to the general discussion....so this post had a rough day! . Thank you for the info!!! I just got off work and saw all the mess up but am taking care of it now!

Cheers!