Posted on 10/25/2013 5:52:04 AM PDT by botsnack
A North Carolina county precinct GOP chair resigned on Thursday after an offensive interview that aired on "The Daily Show" Wednesday, in which he said "lazy black people" want "the government to give them everything."
"Yes, he has resigned," said Nathan West, a spokesman for the Buncombe County Republican Party. The party had asked for Don Yelton's resignation in direct response to the interview, West said.
The interview, conducted by correspondent Aasif Mandvi, was on the topic of North Carolina's new voter ID law, over which the Justice Department has sued the state. On "The Daily Show," Yelton argued that the law wasn't racist, though he added that he's "been called a bigot before."
He brushed off those suggestions, too, arguing that one of his best friends is black.
"Now you have a black person using the term, "N this and n that, and it's OK for them to do it," Yelton said at one point.
That prompted Mandvi to respond, "You know that we can hear you, right?"
The Buncombe County GOP said in a statement that Yelton was "recently reprimanded and removed from his position as a precinct chair." He was re-elected to the position at the 2013 convention by a margin of two votes himself and his wife. The party also said that Yelton did not seek permission to give the interview.
"Mr. Yelton's comments are offensive, uniformed, and unacceptable of any member within the Republican Party," the statement read. "In no way are his comments representative of the local or state Republican Party."
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GOP going full Liberal Akin-Sandbagging on a GOP being honest
you are correct, “lazy” is generic. Laziness isn’t specific to one group...just some have more than others
LMAO!!!!
8^)
I agree with you about the GOP should concentrate on jobs!
I think that is the real elephant in the room. It is a difficult and loosing argument to go against entitlements with so much unemployment. To do so in this environment really makes Republicans look cold-hearted. And, I still think the majority of folks really do want to work at a decent full-time job. Obama has destroyed that dream of all young Americans, and it is a travesty.
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs! And then repeat after me - Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!
It's not the government's job to create jobs....that's for the private sector.
Did I say the government should create jobs? I certainly did not intend to do that. I merely said the GOP’s message should be all about JOBS!!!
Obama and the liberals have systematically destroyed -INTENTIONALLY, I THINK - many private market jobs. Politically we can change that by electing conservatives - who are hopefully members of the GOP. They need to change the tax laws and regulations that strangle private industry and innovations. Unleash the American spirit with free markets and we would become a powerful economy again. The result would be more jobs, less entitlements, and closing of the national debt.
Ok, my point being is that how are they going to go about doing that...By still proclaiming government is the savior, or that jobs will be created by government getting out of the way? Still a lot of "Government is Good" Republicans out there.
Republicans had better get smarter faster or it’s game over. We seem to have little concept of just how far into the jaws of Moloch we’ve allowed ourselves to wander, how close to obsolescence we dally. If liberals are stupider than us, then how the ding dong hell did we end up chronically on the defensive? If we can’t answer the simple apparencies implicit within that question, directly, rigorously, non-evasively, then adios amigoes...
indeed... some of them even have jobs... i have worked with lazy people... i know of lazy managers and directors too... i have been waited on by and have received service from lazy people... i have known lazy teachers... and we currently have a lazy President...
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