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Wingnut School Board President Sends Usual Wacky Racist Emails To Everybody
wonkette.com - 6/9/2009
Wingnut School Board President Sends Usual Wacky Racist Emails To Everybody
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It’s a week of the year in America, so that means it’s time for another wingnut local official to get busted for sending the hilarious racist emails to everybody. Meet Robert J. Weller, appointed leader of the Lewiston-Porter School Board somewhere in the sticks about 40 miles ...

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Think Progress:  Upstate NY school board president ‘regularly’ sends offensive e-mails, including one calling Obama a ‘negro.’

Hit & Run:  Our Bigoted Country and its Black President

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Upstate NY school board president ‘regularly’ sends offensive e-mails, including one calling Obama a ‘negro.’
Think Progress — ... “If you’re not white and Christian, in Bob Weller’s world, you don’t exist,” commented former board President Robert L. Laub, who served on the board with Weller. Though Weller is standing by his actions - going as far as telling a reporter that his critics can “accuse all they want to” - a pastor of the True Bethel Baptist Church in Buffalo is organizing an e-mail campaign to persuade him to apologize or resign. (HT: Wonkette) ...

Our Bigoted Country and its Black President
Hit & Run — ... King Jr. Those were bad times. They were bad times. Also, we're not living through them right now. Nor were we during the 2008 election, it turns out. It's always a weird transition to go from eight years in the wilderness to eight months on the winning team, but a little advice from those of us who are always on the outside looking in: Even though it's funny and useful to dig up the latest racist e-mail from some Republican dogcatcher, and even though the GOP deserves each and ...

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