From the Associated Press this afternoon:
An Arkansas legislator apologized Thursday for an e-mail in which he wrote that "we are being outpopulated by the blacks" and "we are being overrun" by illegal immigrants.
But state Sen. Denny Altes insisted the comments in the e-mail he sent earlier this month to former Fort Smith Mayor Bill Vines were not racist.
. . . Altes, who is white, wrote in the e-mail that he was in favor of returning illegal aliens to their countries, but "we know that is impossible."
"We are where we were with the black folks after the Revolutionary War," Altes wrote. "We can't send them back and the more we (anger them) the worse it will be in the future.... Sure we are being overrun but we are being outpopulated by the blacks also."
Altes said he was responding to an inflammatory e-mail.
Arkansas GOP chairman Dennis Milligan criticized Altes, a Republican from Fort Smith, for the comments.
"They are disrespectful and denigrating to the practical concerns of how we truly address illegal immigration," Milligan said in a statement released by the party.
Yes, please, Sen. Altes, that's not how Republicans "address illegal immigration." Not when the media is looking, anyway.
(Photo via Olivier Lalin.)
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Frist!
For old times sake.
zed?
O/T -
Ghouliani story update, the gift that now keeps on giving.
:)
But Rs AREN’T racist. Every one I’ve ever asked has told me so.
Ah, well, I must be Avis today — have to try harder…
BobbyG @ 3
The best line in the story
Not all goopers are rascist- but most rascists are goopers.
…and Bush is waiting for history’s judgment. Well, they’re all gonna get judged all right, and it won’t be pretty. This, a mere foretaste.
What filthy, hateful, frightened souls.
eCAHNomics @ 6
Comes under the heading of Valiant Public Service.
eCAHNomics @ 6
See, Rudy, the problem isn’t the blow*jobs, it’s the coverup.
Don’t these fuckers ever learn?
~~~ModNote: Edited for content to clear filters.~~~
Re: Giuliani — if you’re going to leave a bloody paper trail, of course someone is going to find out.
The level of stupidity this demonstrates is staggering.
And he should have known that the next administration would go looking!
This is just as bad as what Buchanan has written in his newest book.
As an AR native I would blush if it would do any good at all.
A few of us have been fuming over this at the AR Times blog today. Also in the comments a .pdf of the original letter which sparked this story.
The other outrageous news in AR.. A teacher in Huntsville (Orval Faubus hometown) killed a raccoon with a nail gun in a classroom before giving skinning lessons. Another teacher complained and someone killed a dog and threw it on the teachers fence one night shortly after the complaint.
Welcome to part of my world.
Brisingamen @ 11
Actually, color me surprised if the Bloomberg Administration leaked it. If so, there’s probably a juicy backstory. I haven’t foolowed the origin as closely as the substance, but I think I read that the Loft Authority was asked why such a big expense & that got the tracking going.
Whatever. It’s more fun than a barrel full ‘o monkeys.
“We are where we were with the black folks after the Revolutionary War,” Altes wrote. “We can’t send them back.”
Translation:
I would like to return this black person. He just didn’t work out the way I thought he would. And every time I turn around he is gone.
So what does former Gov Hucksterbee have to say about this
eCAHNomics @14 — I work for the Audit section of one of the Federal IGs. Nowadays my tasks are strictly administrative, but I used to type up the audit reports, so I’ve seen some pretty interesting financial shennanigans in those.
I don’t think Bloomberg’s Admin leaked either. But I’m betting that when Rudi left office there were civil servants still working for NYC who hated his guts, and would have no qualms about looking for just this sort of thing.
Politicians who wish to continue running for office would do well not to tick off the hired help. They may not know WHERE the bones are buried, but they will probably have an idea where the most fruitful excavation should begin.
Brisingamen @ 11
This is submissive Rudy’s ’stained blue dress’ moment. Damn physical evidence!
Brisingamen @ 17
Good advice. Good thing Rudy would never have thought of taking it.
I’m stunned he didn’t link to a picture of a noose in this email…being the ‘Good German Republican’ he is and then saying this is how they address illegal immigration. *rolling eyes*
marymccurnin @ 15
Yeah, off voting, or picketing, or protesting the Chimp-in-Chiefs glorious war on terra…
Racism is alive and well…those comments are simply stunning.
OT - Does anyone know if Scarecrow is still writing on FDL?
The American citizens who elected this boob, Denny Altes, to office should be ashamed of themselves! That’s all I have to say.
Brisingamen @ 11
Didn’t have to wait that long really - all that needed to happen was to have an honest City Auditor looking at the accounts when it became time to do so. And that happened and he got caught.
The question is: Who authorized charging those other departments with these travel charges? Whose signature is on the chits? Who assigned the account codes. Those are birds who must sing.
What a bizarre psychology! What and where does this man think he is?
Ghouliani…another “oathtaker” in trouble….Heh!!! Not to mention Rove, etc.,…in Leahey’s line of sight.
Barak Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Halle Berry, Will Smith, Thurgood Marshall, Tiger Woods, Joycelyn Elders, Colin Powell, Maya Angelou, Sharon Jones, Rosa Parks, Queen Latifah, Carol Moseley Braun, Venus and Serena Williams, B. B. King, Darryl Lester, Steve Gilliard, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr.
Overpopulated my ass. The world needs more people like these, regardless of color…
Jesse Owens, Ray Charles, Booker T. Washington, Marion Anderson…
LS @ 27
“Leahy”…sorry.
And the Rudy story gets even worse…
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/11/29/163011/16
Jane’s upstairs
I suppose this is a southern bigot? Amazing in the 21st century. But heck, we know that repukes have a racists strain running through them.
Not surprised. But surprised that they say it openly.
Boston1775 @ 23
I’m not sure of this, but I believe you’ll be seeing more from Scarecrow over the coming week (perhaps as soon as tomorrow).
I think Attaturk and Blue Texan have been so prolific, it’s been hard for him to get a word in edgewise. :)
SanderO @ 33
You don’t understand. He was taken out of context. If you saw the larger statement…
Albatross @ 28
Eureka Springs @ 13
johnny reb dont need no shoes or books just a nail gun
I don’t think he’s looked at a census lately. Nearly 400 million Americans . . . of which only about 13% are black. Yeah, that’s some out-populatin’ there. Between 2004 & 2005 there was an increase in the African-American population of about 500,000. African American are projected to reach 15% of the population in 2050.
Maybe by “outpopulating” he means that African Americans are doing a better job of not “inbreeding.”
SanderO @ 33
i guess you didn’t read your comment or think before you wrote it. repukes sounds as racist as that smallminded man in arkansas.one of the neat things in the south on all sides of the political spectrum is that things are talked about in the open so at least most of the time,even if you don’t like it ,you know where someone stands and you aren’t left at the alter of false promises such as those of the policies of dems who leave the people they profess to help more dependent than ever with their handouts
Whow was he emailing … Dog the Bounty Hunter?
eCAHNomics @ 4
You guys that want to stereotype a group because of the actions of a small number of people who are a member of that group are no better than the racist. Isn’t that line of thinking the root of modern racist?
Is the Democratic party any better? Many dems, and a growing number of repubs, continue to exploit the poor by using government policy to buy votes, thus ensuring that the poor stay poor by making them reliant on the government for assistance and thus ensuring continued votes from the poor in fear that someone will “take away” their handouts.
People are racist, not groups.
The guy hit the nail on the head
Sorry but we are really being outpopulated by the religious right: http://www.duggarfamily.com/
Liberal sex: do it for your country!
“We are where we were with the black folks after the Revolutionary War,”
- For someone who’s involved in running our country you would think that he would know his history - It was the Civil War.
Yeeehaw!!!
I love to be a redneck in a redneck state!!!