[KeyLargo]

"The only Hispanic on the board, Ramirez-Sliwinski has been a strong voice for Carpentersville's 40 percent Hispanic population. She and Village President Bill Sarto opposed an English-only proposition and an ordinance to crack down on illegal immigrants."

Don't you love it when a sancturay city backer gets bounced from Obama's campaign for alleged racial remarks.

Finger pointer should look into a mirror April 7, 2008

"Carpentersville trustee Linda Ramirez Sliwinski, who says she’s the Latino leader and has a very bad habit of calling anyone who opposes illegal immigration, as RACISTS and BIGOTS, has shown her true colors. "

http://carpentersvilleplayhouse.wordpress.com/

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Sarto said he hopes Ramirez-Sliwinski will plead "not guilty" to the $75 charge and stay on the board

So, it's illegal to say "monkey" now?

[Hatteras]

"she was ticketed for calling her neighbor's African-American children "monkeys." "

"ticketed"?! WTF?

[Jet Jaguar]

Wow, sticks and stones.

[arbooz]

A leftist scum is getting a taste of its own mind-control medicine? What's the world coming to?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski, on the far left (obviously). ;)

[Hatteras]

"We have a trustee who has been convicted on four counts of domestic battery and refuses to resign from the board."

NOI member?

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Sarto said he hopes Ramirez-Sliwinski will plead "not guilty" to the $75 charge and stay on the board.

She was charged with something and fined? What would she be charged with? I didn't see any other reference to it in the article.

[TCats]

"Frankly, I don't see a law that was broken here"

She broke the law! Ask George Orwell.

[johniegrad]

The irony in this story is enough to write a book about.

[gate2wire]

Good thing she didn’t call them cotton-picking monkeys.

[I still care]

This is so stupid. I used to call my kids “monkeys”.

I was watching Geraldine Ferraro on O’Reilly last night. She was “deeply hurt” by charges of racism over the past few weeks.

I don’t have much sympathy for these libs. They are the ones that started and encouraged this nonsense, and now that it has reached impossible proportions, they are shocked, just shocked.

[TheBattman]

While I can somewhat agree with your premise, I personally am fed up with the PC crap. WE call our own daughters “monkey” and many other names on occasion.

While in this PC world, calling black children “monkeys” when they are climbing a tree would seem innocent, nothing is any more. Rather depressing thought.

[Always Right]

Typical white lady.

[Abathar]

I truly wonder what kind of world my kids are going to inherit when I read stories like this.

They will never have the chance to know how good we had it when we were growing up.

[Proverbs 3-5]

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!

I'm glad to see the thought police occasionally nab liberal do-gooders...

[DB]

Virtually any words can be taken the wrong way if one makes an effort...

The dems have turned language into a mine field... Kind of funny that they find themselves self detonating these days trying to traverse their own creation...

[Obadiah]

And so we see just how the Obama liberals will begin their purges. You see, just like in Lenin's day, certain words and thoughts are illegal. In this instance, the woman is only shamed and humiliated for using the word monkey. Do this in a few years and you'll likely be taken out and summarily shot for such a grievous offense.

[SauronOfMordor]

So now we’re supposed to avoid the “m-word”?

[txrangerette]

Everyone needs to note that this is a pro Obama American citizen, active for Obama in the political process. If this is what happens to somebody in that category, what can happen to Americans who are against Obama???? The mind boggles.

[lookout88]

Carpentersville is not far from me. It is the home of the illegal alien. They have trashed the schools, and brought fear into neighboring communities with gang members

[Krankor]

Wait a minute, didn’t Obama say something about how unfair it was to judge a person based on a just a few snippets of the thousands of comments they made over their lifetime.

[shaft29]

I can’t believe that this woman is so obtuse. Doesn’t she know that the politically correct word for black children playing in the trees is orangutan?

[Red Badger]

...she was ticketed for calling her neighbor's African-American children "monkeys."....the $75 charge

WTH??????????Ticketed? What country was this in?...................

[Condor51]

It's a good thing the 'African-American' kids weren't playing on the ...... Monkey Bars.

Opps, off to jail for me.

[gate2wire]

“Carpentersville trustee Linda Ramirez Sliwinski, who says she’s the Latino leader and has a very bad habit of calling anyone who opposes illegal immigration, as RACISTS and BIGOTS, has shown her true colors. “

The cops probably loved giving her a ticket. Sounds like she’s the local pain-in-the-ass. Cops got a chance to give her a taste of her own medicine. :-)

[nikos1121]

QUOTE OF THE DAY!!!!
“Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.” ——Thomas Sowell

[smalltownslick]

“She and Village President Bill Sarto opposed an English-only proposition....”

So what’s Spanish for monkey?

[HD1200]

BILL OREILLY said it well last night when he said Americans have stopped having dialogue with blacks for fear of doing or saying something innocently that is taken as a racist statement or action and they are charged with some ridiculous law like this, ruining their lives.

I can’t count the times I have feared doing/saying something to the minorities in my life. I find myself withdrawing from them just for self-protection.

[Rebelbase]

"We find the whole black-monkey racial thing to be non-offensive"

[gridlock]

Moving to nip in the bud some potential bad press, White House hopeful Barack Obama's campaign persuaded a delegate to step down after she was ticketed for calling her neighbor's African-American children "monkeys."

You can get a $75 ticket for calling a kid a monkey? My kid is going to own the house!

[Osage Orange]

delegate to step down after she was ticketed for calling her neighbor's African-American children "monkeys."

"TICKETED"???????? By who????????

[Girlene]

Don't you love it when a sancturay city backer gets bounced from Obama's campaign for alleged racial remarks.

Yes. But a ticket for "disturbing" or "alarming" someone? Wow.

[Osage Orange]

"We are elected officials. We are in a position where people look to us for leadership and professionalism. We have to be diplomatic at all times."

"Diplomatic" = P.C.

[Proverbs 3-5]

I had a black coworker once who went running to my supervisor after I used the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black" during a work related discussion.

Fortunately the supervisor rolled his eyes and told her to pound sand. That, however was 18 years ago... not sure what would happen today...

[RGSpincich]

Told of the incident Monday by the Sun-Times, Obama's campaign called Ramirez-Sliwinski and persuaded her to step aside as a delegate because the campaign felt her remarks were "divisive and unacceptable."

Way to step up and inject some sanity into the "race" conversation, Obama. OTH, pass the popcorn.

[Robert DeLong]

Let the uniting begin. /s

I assume now that monkey is one of those words we can no longer use.

[cookcounty]

Oh, those macaca moments!

[TommyDale]

"I was shocked! Shocked I tell 'ya!"

[tlb]

You can no longer call people a “monkey”. Now you must call them Simian-Americans.

[TommyDale]

The neighbor child is now contemplating a hate-crime civil lawsuit.

[Krankor]

Mother: “Ok, hold it down, you little monkeys...er, I mean, uh, except for Jamaal and Kaneesha.”

[RGSpincich]

Send your heartfelt condolescences.

LRamirezSliwinski@vil.carpentersville.il.us

[Bender2]

This reminds me of Howard Hawks' 1951 The Thing from Another World, you know, that scene where:

Lt. Ken McPherson: What if he can read our minds?

Eddie: He'll be real mad when he gets to me.

Except I play the part of Eddie... and President Obama is the Thing reading my 'typical white' mind

[RGSpincich]

Send your heartfelt condolences.

LRamirezSliwinski@vil.carpentersville.il.us

[6SJ7]

Ticket? Hmmm. I found this article which mentions...

Ramirez Sliwinski, who is Hispanic, was issued a citation alleging that she violated a village ordinance prohibiting disorderly conduct. The ordinance bans conduct that disturbs or alarms people, and one of the boys told police he was scared by Ramirez Sliwinski's comment, Police Cmdr. Michael Kilbourne said. The citation carries a fine of $75.

So now say the word 'monkey'; someone claims 'offense'; bingo... a $75 ticket.

Forget monkey. How about horse hockey.

[TheZMan]

Haha. I love it when the retards get a taste of their own destruction.

[Mr. Brightside]

Kramer: So, so what do you want me to do?

Mr. Pless: Well, frankly we’d like you to apologize.

Kramer: Yeah, well he started it.

Mr. Pless: Mr. Kramer, he is an innocent primate.

Kramer: So am I.

[ontap]

"Carpentersville trustee Linda Ramirez Sliwinski, who says she’s the Latino leader and has a very bad habit of calling anyone who opposes illegal immigration, as RACISTS and BIGOTS, has shown her true colors. "

I do get a warm and fuzzy feeling when these pious a$$holes have their crap thrown back at them. It's also happening to the Clintons.

[Southerngl]

Ticketed??? When did they stop the freedom of speech bit in the constitution?

[JZelle]

Ma'am, I feel your pain!