Los Alamitos’ Republican Mayor Dean Grose recently sent an email to friends that showed a picture of the White House with a watermelon patch imposed as the White House garden under the title "No Easter egg hunt this year."
I won’t pretend that I’m appalled.
In fact, I’m delighted.
Once again, Orange County’s Republican officials have exposed themselves as among the most racist, and moronic, politicians in the country.
If I were a Republican, I’d be deeply embarrassed.
But I’m not.
Grose said that he didn’t think the email was racist. “The way things are today, you gotta laugh every now and then,” Grose said when the email was made public.
Now Grose has said that he’ll resign.
No doubt the Orange County Republican Party will find another brilliant public servant to take his place.
UPDATE
Grose is also not planning to resign as a director of the League of California Cities Orange County Division and the Southern California Association of Governments (where he represents the communities of Cypress, La Palma and Los Alamitos).
You can tell Grose what you think of his email by sending him an email of your own: dgrose@ci.los-alamitos.ca.us.
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Why is he resigning, though? For honestly stating his beliefs? This being Orange County, he was likely elected because he's a racist, not in spite of the fact.
A very dumb email, and I can't imagine why a person in public office would think they could get away with sending it.
How do they do it?
Wendell Berry's:`Aristocracy?
...
(What has appeared, surprisingly,
but not very-stepping out the door,
and down the steps, groping for each,
lower step with a left foot ... expansive,
exquisitely garmented paunch has prevented ... seeing for thirty-five years-is a rich, fat, selfish, ugly, ignorant, old [male] bitch airing
a cat.) (read the whole?) (gargle it?) THE SYCAMORE? a great poem.
`
Somewhere there is a poem Mr. Berry wrote about politicians. apologies, for a paraphrase. LEADERS can be similar to all the crooked public officials. Ya thump the ("leaders") watermellon!
Nope, not ripe yet!
Later, Ya thump a`gin.
Nope, Ya now got rotten.
(sorry Mr. Berry? does the rain in Kentucky fall mainly on the wild turkey, or does it water the sheep pasture so Ya can milk the sheep?
Sheep cheese? Yummy.
I saw a Great Sycamore!
What beauty to behold.
I walked the graveyard in Port Royal, Kentucky.
I walked the burial plot on a Sunday, after the Louisville, Kentucky, `Acres- Annual Farm Conference. It was last year. I can still barely say it,
and what
I read was?
Magnificent!
What beauty.
`
Never be ashamed?
A politician is`Shame!
They joke about watermelons and grits and nooses and blowing up San Francisco and now Chicago and about shrinking the size of government to drown it in a bathtub.
They think slavery was funny. A living wage is funny. Announcing a supreme court justice's death, while she's still alive, is funny. That killing liberals is funny. That having 'race' bake sales is funny. That dressing up in black face and trick or treating is funny. That Nazi and confederate flags are funny... That calling democratic women 'bitches' and 'whores' is funny. That calling the 9/11 widows whores is funny.
They are the social retards of the world, by and large.
I remember reading a thread at the free republic website after the Clinton's dog died. The comments were so debased... There was nothing, not a shred of humanity in any of it.
That 'dirtiest political joke that can't be told' that says the reason why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly is because Janet Reno is her father is what makes them erupt into gales of laughter...
If you have ever heard a rabid 'winger' listen to Limbaugh, you will get their sense of humour. It's low. VERY low...
I just posted about this and linked to you.
the definition: delay or hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment : his progress was retarded by his limp.
noun |ˈrēˌtärd| |ˈritɑrd| |rəˈtɑrd| |riˈtɑrd| |ˈriːtɑːd| offensive
a mentally handicapped person (often used as a general term of abuse).
the process is retarded by bureaucratic red tape delay, slow down, slow up, hold back, hold up, set back, postpone, put back, detain, decelerate; hinder, hamper, obstruct, inhibit, impede, check, restrain, restrict, trammel; literary stay. antonym accelerate.
I meant no slight to those that are 'handicapped' but chose to 'knee cap' the knuckle dragging mouth breathers that still live with their mothers and laugh at the inside joke that this mayor meant by forwarding this offensive file.
NOTE: I mean no disrespect for knuckle draggers or mouth breathers that don't find that level of humour funny.
WOOF