Jim Welker: Addicted to hate speech?
Republican state representative Jim Welker has been under fire for emailing out an essay that claimed that the main victims of Hurricaine Katrina were "immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind and waited for the government to bail them out." A statement that manages to be false and racist simultaneously.
Today the Rocky Mountain News reports that this isn't the first time Welker has spammed the legislature with hate speech. In fact, his own party told him to cut it out three years ago, after he forwarded around an email that claimed (brace yourself, because this gets icky), "gay men regularly ingest the urine and feces of their partners, leading to massive outbreaks of various diseases." The forwarded email questioned why gays and lesbians were allowed to work with children, the elderly and in the food industry.
And a couple days ago, the Rocky pointed out that Welker has forwarded emails claiming immigrants are "illiterate Third World mothers who, like birds to a feeder, know a good deal when they see or hear about it."
Democratic New York state attorney general Eliot Spitzer told Business 2.0 one of his golden rules for success is, "Never put anything in an e-mail." Welker should've paid attention.
Now it's too late. Welker's gotta go.
Today the Rocky Mountain News reports that this isn't the first time Welker has spammed the legislature with hate speech. In fact, his own party told him to cut it out three years ago, after he forwarded around an email that claimed (brace yourself, because this gets icky), "gay men regularly ingest the urine and feces of their partners, leading to massive outbreaks of various diseases." The forwarded email questioned why gays and lesbians were allowed to work with children, the elderly and in the food industry.
And a couple days ago, the Rocky pointed out that Welker has forwarded emails claiming immigrants are "illiterate Third World mothers who, like birds to a feeder, know a good deal when they see or hear about it."
Democratic New York state attorney general Eliot Spitzer told Business 2.0 one of his golden rules for success is, "Never put anything in an e-mail." Welker should've paid attention.
Now it's too late. Welker's gotta go.
1 Comments:
Hey, There's another exciting Dem: Elliot Spitzer! And why is it that it's always Republicans having to apologize for stuff they put in e-mails and constantly being surprised that this stuff gets out? It certainly seems as though the bigotry of politicians like Welker is exceeded only by their incredible stupidity. Wouldn't it be nice if our federal and state constitutions could add a minimal IQ requirement? Not a rocket science level IQ , mind you... just brighter than a toaster would be adequate to keep out yahoos like Welker, not to mention a certain leader of the free world.
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