Civil Rights leaders are demanding the resignation of an Orange County Republican official who reportedly sent an email containing a photo depicting President Barack Obama as a chimpanzee.I didn't run the photo when I originally ran the story, but the media is running the picture non-stop on local TV, in the paper, and even in national websites, so that's why I included it in this story.
A news conference is being held this morning to urge the GOP to fire Marilyn Davenport.
Davenport, a tea party activist and elected member of the central committee of the Republican Party of Orange County (RPOC), claims the photo was a joke.
The caption accompanying the photo read "Now you know why no birth certificate."
Someone on the 73-member committee leaked the email to the OC Weekly.
The RPOC is reportedly supporting the efforts to urge Davenport to step down, and has called for an ethics investigation.
Davenport said she has no plans to resign.
According to the OC Weekly, Davenport issued the following statement.
"I simply found it amusing regarding the character of Obama and all the questions surrounding his origin of birth," Davenport wrote. "In no way did I even consider the fact he's half black when I sent out the email. In fact, the thought never entered my mind until one or two other people [Scott Baugh, Orange County GOP boss, and this writer] tried to make this about race. . . . I received plenty of emails about George Bush that I didn't particularly like yet there was no 'cry' in the media about them."
Davenport continued: "That being said, I will NOT resign my central committee position over this matter that the average person knows and agrees is much to do about nothing."
Civil rights activists will use this story to get all the mileage out of it they can, and they can call for the GOP to "fire" her, but she's an elected official of the party and firing her is not that simple an option. There's a process the party will have to go through, and based on GOP chairman Scott Baugh's comments, I'm confident they'll do that. Whether she's racist or just has a poor sense of what's funny to most people these days, she needs to go. She's brought embarrassment to the party, and now the media is referring to her as a "Tea Party activist" in yet another attempt to smear an entire organization based on the actions of one member.
She had an attack of the stupids and she needs to remove herself from any connection to the party as quickly as possible.
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Whilst finding this rather puerile. it is nevertheless a very accurate reflection of how evolutionists would prefer our children to be taught.
If Darwin was right, somebody's mother or father had to be an ape.
As Obama is clearly not a believer in Biblical teaching of any kind it is hard for any of his supporters to object.
Didn't the left constantly refer to G.W. Bush as a monkey? Logically, why is saying it about one president okay, but not the other?
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