Hillsborough GOP official rebuked for racial e-mail joke
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/local/article973513.ece
TAMPA — Florida Republican chairman Jim Greer said Wednesday that longtime Hillsborough state committeewoman Carol Carter may lose her position because of the racial joke she forwarded in an e-mail.
From: Carol Carter
Friday, January 30, 9:30 AM
Subject: FW: Amazing!
I’m confused
How can 2,000,000 blacks get into Washington, DC in 1 day in sub zero temps when 200,000 couldn’t get out of New Orleans in 85 degree temps with four days notice?
Carol Carter
LATER SHE SENT OUT A SECOND E-MAIL THAT READ:
From: Carol Carter
January 30, 5:54 PM
Subject: Earlier e-mail
I have been asked to send this apology for my earlier e-mail. I am sorry that it was received in a negative manner. I do hope that we are going to be allowed to keep our sense of humor.
As you can now see, it went to very few people. I did add Todd Marks in this apology, as he is in the mix now. I am also sorry to learn that some of these persons are not real team players. There really was no reason for this to go beyond those that I e-mailed (8 people). This was not an e-mail blast as I do not have that capability.
Carol
“I just saw Carol last Tuesday, and we had a good conversation,” said Curtis Stokes, president of the Hillsborough County NAACP and a prominent Republican. “Never in a million years would I think she would forward something like this.”
Stokes said he started getting angry phone calls about Carter early Wednesday morning but didn’t learn the content of the e-mail until later that night.
“That kind of behavior has no place in the modern day Republican Party,” Stokes said.
You know what’s funnier than a crappy e-mail forward? Someone getting shit-canned over it. I guess to Carol being a team player means being a racist bastard. Also, I love the end of the article where Local Prominent African-American Republican semi-vouches for Carol before quickly admitting that in the old school GOP, Carol would be given a pat on the back and a promotion.
