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Florida secretary of state resigns after photo reportedly shows him in blackface
https://www.nbcnews.com ^ | 01/24/2019 | By Doha Madani

Posted on 01/24/2019 4:33:46 PM PST by BackRoads775

The newly appointed secretary of state in Florida resigned Thursday after a 2005 photo of him reportedly in blackface mocking Hurricane Katrina victims surfaced.

The photo, obtained by The Tallahassee Democrat, shows Secretary of State Mike Ertel with brown face paint, wearing red lipstick, earrings and a New Orleans Saints bandanna. Ertel also had fake breasts under a purple shirt that said "Katrina Victim," according to the Democrat.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: blackface; facepalm; florida; halloween; idiot; mikeertel; moron; rondesantis
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1 posted on 01/24/2019 4:33:46 PM PST by BackRoads775
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To: BackRoads775

Lol sounds good to me


2 posted on 01/24/2019 4:34:30 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: BackRoads775
Was it this guy? LOL.

BEST. HALLOWEEN. COSTUME. EVER.

3 posted on 01/24/2019 4:35:56 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: BackRoads775

Resign for that? What poosey!


4 posted on 01/24/2019 4:36:04 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: BackRoads775

This is why alleged grown-ups need to leave Halloween festivities to the kids.


5 posted on 01/24/2019 4:36:31 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: BackRoads775

Put your belongings in a box, and security will walk you out the door.


6 posted on 01/24/2019 4:36:34 PM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: BackRoads775

appointed?


7 posted on 01/24/2019 4:36:55 PM PST by Conserv
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To: BackRoads775

“The past is never dead.
It’s not even the past.”
-William Faulkner


8 posted on 01/24/2019 4:38:32 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.Huff)
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To: Bonemaker

This!!


9 posted on 01/24/2019 4:38:38 PM PST by bantam
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To: BackRoads775

Was he a Republican?


10 posted on 01/24/2019 4:40:54 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: BackRoads775

Yet Booker(the abuser) still has a seat in congress!! Freakin incredible!!!


11 posted on 01/24/2019 4:41:26 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: BackRoads775

Too stupid to be on the public payroll. And that’s pretty stupid.


12 posted on 01/24/2019 4:41:28 PM PST by marron
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To: HighSierra5
Was he a Republican?

Appointed by DeSantis. Would DeSantis appoint a democrat?
13 posted on 01/24/2019 4:42:53 PM PST by adorno
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To: BackRoads775

Was he a republican? Usually, Dems don’t step down for that or much, much worse.
All he had to do is say, ‘Sorry, won’t do it again’.
Nobody’s perfect. I, for one do not have any problem with
people dressing in blackface during a Halloween Party.
Other races ‘misappropriate’ left and right, all the time.


14 posted on 01/24/2019 4:42:57 PM PST by lee martell (AT)
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To: BackRoads775
As in...the LEGEND...


15 posted on 01/24/2019 4:44:26 PM PST by montag813
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To: BackRoads775

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Bye, ya’ moron.


16 posted on 01/24/2019 4:45:13 PM PST by Tejas Rob
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To: Alberta's Child

Look, it’s Shaun King!


17 posted on 01/24/2019 4:46:06 PM PST by PTBAA
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To: Blue House Sue

As the Kavanaugh destruction campaign taught us, all of us must go back in time right away and delete every silly thing we said to buddies on a Saturday night cruising around town in high school, every bold statement that should have been left unsaid, every ill advised romance with someone who turned out to be crazy, and everything that would have been better to have not done in the first place.

What? Time machines are only in fiction? Then we can’t un-do what 20-20 hindsight now tells us was a mistake?
Then we’re screwed.


18 posted on 01/24/2019 4:48:00 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,noncitizens & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: adorno

I don’t know. Probably not. They didn’t say in the linked article.


19 posted on 01/24/2019 4:49:27 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Alberta's Child

Only problem with that costume is that he forgot the hands.

As to the thread, resign over that? This is why we are losing the culture war, men are not saying “so what” and “who cares, Eddie Murphy and Dave Chappell etc... made bank imitating white men, take your feelings and shove them up RuPauls’...”


20 posted on 01/24/2019 4:49:32 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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