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Posted on 04/08/2008 1:53:56 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Obama Delegate Resigns After Remark
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Associated Press
CARPENTERSVILLE, Ill. -- An Illinois delegate for Democratic Sen. Barack Obama resigned after using the word "monkeys" to describe black children playing in a tree, the Obama campaign said Tuesday.
Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski, a trustee in the Chicago suburb of Carpentersville, was issued a $75 ticket for disorderly conduct after neighbors complained to police. She says the word wasn't meant racially and she will fight the ticket.
"Given the incident, Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski is stepping down as a delegate and will be replaced," said Obama spokeswoman Amy Brundage.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Doesn’t mean the father owned the part the kids were climbing in. Besides, he had no business scaring his neighbor.
Maybe she said “macaca”
Just what is going through the minds of the government up there in Carpenterville that they think a neighborly admonishment regarding safety is "disorderly conduct"? Buncha' fascist cr*p Fur Shur. Is this the place the Nazis retired to after going up to Skokie to scare the Jews?
Although we might not like what the neighbor has to say, sometimes he might be right, and sometimes not. Calling in the cops for this sort of thing can get you killed.
Uh oh, guess "Jungle Jim" has a new meaning too.
This is really funny- I call my grandson a monkey when he is playing in the trees. Thank goodness he is not Black, I would be considered a racist. Oh well, the libs started all this pc carp about everything- I guess it is fitting that they pay the price.
Had she said they were primates, her taxonomy would have been more accurate.
"Cmdr. Michael Kilbourne said Tuesday a ticket was issued because the ordinance bans conduct that disturbs or alarms people. One of the boys told police he was scared by her comment and a mother said she was disturbed, he said."
The woman sounds like a busybody; the parents sound like morons and the police who issued a ticket for the whole ridiculous affair sound like cretins.
(no offense to anybody)
I'm going to call the cops on her. Her conduct, calling the police because someone made a comment, disturbs AND alarms me! I want her to get a ticket for that!! I demand it. I am disturbed and alarmed by her behavior. I demand my rights.
That’s interesting!
ABout the woman and her politics and her activism.. Ha, ha.
I love it when liberals get hoisted on their own petard.
Ha, ha, again.
And I’d like to know more about the Obama thing... was she asked to resign or what.
When I first read the story, I was appalled at her being given a ticket based on an innocent word. I also wondered at why she would take it upon herself to butt into a situation like that with parents watching.
It’s beginning to sound like justice for all.
So, why is it that people can say we descended from apes, but they can’t reference blacks acting as apes in any manner?
“I also wondered at why she would take it upon herself to butt into a situation like that with parents watching.”
I got the impression that she felt she was sticking up for the landlord. These people were renters and perhaps she felt they were going to damage the tree of her former neighbor, and possible friend. Nevertheless, she should have called the landlord rather than trying to handle it herself. That said, the reaction was ridiculous.
What’s more amazing is that this person, no doubt a racially-aware leftist, dared to use such a term to describe a black person. I (a straight, white, Christian man) wouldn’t do that on a dare, but this woman seems oblivious to the poisoned atmosphere (her) identity politics have created.
Right! She was cited for disorderly conduct which is apparently a village ordinance. IF this ticket is allowed to stand, it could also bring about a lawsuit for hate speech. The ACLU from Chicago has already weighed in..guess on who side??
I agree she should have minded her own business, but for the cops to be brought in, is just scary. If the neighbor had just stated to her that she was offended and left it at that, I don’t think we would even know about this today, but the police were called. The biggest “mistake” she made after that was allowing herself to be pressured into resigning her delegate seat for innocent speech. She has now admitted guilt...at least according to the Obama campaign by stepping down. Can you say scapegoat?
When does this stop? Who gets to judge whether or not I or anyone else is a victim of hate speech? Where is the evidence? I will be watching how this goes in court in front of a judge. Will the ACLU be there? Will a criminal complaint be filed after this?
Truly horrifying!
I agree, but from what they said on the news, the neighbors already didn’t like her because she was always complaining ‘turn the music down, watch your kids etc’. So they basically jumped on the opportunity to get her.
You’re not kidding-we’re turning into a nation of wimps. Hey, you know President Bush for the past seven years has been called “Chimpy”, “Chimp-in Chief” and the “Smirking Chimp” by many, and Obama and his cronies didn’t seem to care. Wonder why?
Obama Delegate Quits After Campaign
Finds Remarks to Neighbor Kids to be ‘Unacceptable’
FoxNews | 04/08/2008 | Staff
Posted on Tuesday, April 08, 2008 02:34:49 PM by JRochelle
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