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Published Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 | 3:43 p.m.
Updated Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 | 4:11 p.m.
The chairman of the Stonewall Democratic Club of Southern Nevada, a grassroots Democratic LGBT organization, is calling out a member of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle's staff for what he calls "casual racism."
Derek Washington contacted the Sun about a Facebook posting he saw on Jordan Gehrke's wall. Gehrke is Angle's deputy campaign manager.
"went to the Clinton Library yesterday," Gehrke's post reads. "To my dismay, they did not in fact have beads in the doorway. Had the urge to walk in and shout 'Where the white women at?!' ala Blazing Saddles. Ultimately decided against it, lest I be mistaken for one of the employees."
Gehrke wrote the wall post in December 2009. Washington said a friend found it and forwarded it to him.
"Not only is it offensive, it's really stupid to be posting this kind of stuff where anyone can see it," Washington said. "I can't imagine ANY campaign manager openly being so, if not racist, insensitive."
A call to the Angle campaign was not immediately returned.
On his Facebook page, Gehrke wrote that he was "just being lighthearted" when a friend asked why he visited the museum if he didn't respect it.
"Nothing here to be shrill and overly earnest about," Gehrke wrote.
I've come to expect every action from the Angle camp to expose just how low-down, dirty-rotten, and plain old mean these folks are.
Think they represent your values? Ha!
New slogan for the Angle campaign: We don't care if you were raped by your daddy but stand still while my business makes a profit off of raping you.
Political Correctness, may it die tomorrow and be gone forever.
First, if it's the truth, how is it "offensive"?
And, secondly, there is NOTHING racist in what was written. However, there was racism in the perception that was read into the statement. So, who's the racist? Right, Derek Washington.
You're right Uhave2laff when you talk about low-down, dirty-rotten, plain old mean, as well as, being pathological liars Dirty Harry Reid's campaign takes first place. He not only lies about his opponent, he lies about his accomplishments which in reality are non-accomplishments. I hear there's a Dog Catchers position open in Searchlight.
tarbox, and others of his ilk, practice the new right-wing tactic of overt racism;
"You can say anything racial you want! When someone calls you on it, just CALL THEM A RACIST!!!"
Wow.
We are SO FOOLED.
SO...
Which "former poster" is now posting under the user name tarbox60???
Tarbox60 - if you elect Sharron Angle, you'll be begging for that dog catcher's job - if it even still exists. Since Angle couldn't care less about helping create jobs for Nevadans, it will be one of the few available jobs around.
Lets See, Crazy back room Sharron has now alienitated parents with sick children, women, our Honorable Veterans and now blacks too? Keep going you back woods country hick. Sorry, Sharron, you can't lynch people anymore for being black.
i love how you have some publications bragging how Angle is ahead in the polls...right before the story of her secret taped convo broke the news.
Lets see which way the polls go now, shall we??
He waited all this time to go public with this scintillating, boring, idiotic alleged post. Boy, you Dems are truly grasping at straws now. Polls released today show Angle 49% Dirty Harry 43%. Does this mean we can expect more made up dirt from Reid's camp until the election is over? You make yourself less credible with each new bogus PR release. Why not try a new approach - pretend Harry knows what he's talking about and play nice for once in his life! He's gonna hate the retired life in Searchlight! Buh Bye Horrible Harry!
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The action of Angle's deputy campaign personifies the Republicants. They have no respect for themselves or anyone else. They find some poll(fox news, republicant biased)that show them favorably and they think the election is over. The only polls that counts is Nov 2nd. We will see how victorious they are then. Never ever vote for a Republicant.
It wasnt Sharron Angle nor the Tea Party who created the 14% unemployment in this state. In november the voters will announce the guilty party and sentence. HARRY GREED - RETIREMENT.
The comments by neo-conservatives just keeps rolling on and on and on.
Calling Senator Reid "greedy" and "dirty" and other things is actually pretty hilarious.
Especially when their candidate has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that she performs these attributes without any shame or guilt.
But such is life when you are a right winger. A right winger that has their party of no out of power; proven to be totally and completely incompetent. The only recourse is just to play childish games and throw the proof back, but make sure you do it by jumping up and down and screaming it and repeating it over and over and over and over again.
The voters in Nevada are not fooled.
We prefer sanity. Over "juice" and tea.
My vote goes for Senator Reid.
Interesting that KNPR's "State of Nevada" this morning discussed managing the "comments" section online; how to discourage hateful rants while not trampling on freedom of speech. The Sun was a part of that discussion. I say let the hatemongers expose themselves and their racist, homophobic, rhetoric. We know which (whose) side they're on, and they only confirm the public's perception about them. If name calling is the best argument you can mount against a target (candidate or otherwise), then you don't have much of a case anyway. As for the issue at hand, racists will never acknowledge their deep-seated prejudices; they'll always say the other guy is "playing the race card" and are dismissive of the criticism as not being important. Their base will love it, and we can only hope that rational, civil engaged citizens won't. What is important is that this person has exposed his underlying philosophy for the rest of us to see.
Cmon Nevada the rest of the country is counting on you to get this anti American gone!!!Just ask yourself have the people of Nevada prospered more then Harry has prospered ?Remember all the sneaky backroom deals him and the Dem's made to takeover our health care,by themselves mind you.They used the nuclear option, something that was NEVER intended for something as massive as Obama care.I need a damn job not Health care.I new what Harry was when he made the comment,"the war is lost,the surge will never work"Putting politics before the safety of our country and troops,What person that loves their country does something like that?Is Sharon perfect,who is?But she wont be an automatic yes vote for everything Obama and all the out of control spending.We need to stop the one party rule and bring back healthy checks and BALANCE!!!!!
I think Bill Maher said it best,
"There are two things Teabaggers hate, one, is to be called a racist and the other is black people".
The problem isn't that a staffer made such a blatantly offensive remark, but that Ms. Angle and the GOP never bothered to reprimand the staffer. I believe that says as much about Ms. Angles campaign as it does about the people she has working for her. I'm sure she has many good people working for her, but why didn't any of them say something?
The American people deserve representatives that can disagree with their opponents without resorting to childish name calling that is normally relegated to a first-grade playground. And some of the comments are so low as to be an insult to first-graders.
Oh my gosh, dickerjd. I laughed at that comment by Bill Maher.
There's another one he commented about that you might find humorous. In referring to the differences we have politically here in America...
"The left has went to the moderate center and the right has went to the mental institution."