Walker Aide Found Racist Email Comparing Welfare Recipients To Dogs 'Hilarious'

[ProSense]

Walker Aide Found Racist Email Comparing Welfare Recipients To Dogs 'Hilarious'

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's (R) deputy chief of staff from his days as Milwaukee County executive once called a racially charged email comparing welfare recipients to dogs "hilarious."

According to documents released Wednesday related to a secret investigation of Walker and his staff, then-deputy chief of staff Kelly Rindfleisch received an email in April 2010 that contained a photo of four dogs and mocked welfare recipients.

"This morning I went to sign my Dogs up for welfare. At first the lady said, 'Dogs are not eligible to draw welfare'," the email, first reported by Buzzfeed, read. "So I expla ned (sic) to her that my Dogs are mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can't speak English and have no frigging clue who the r (sic) Daddys are. They expect me to feed them, provide them with housing and medical care, and feel guilty because they are dogs."

"That is hilarious. And so true," Rindfleisch replied.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/scott_walker_aide_email_welfare_recipients_dogs

[cali]

1. wow. piece of shit. may the worst things in life be headed his way

[JustAnotherGen]

2. That's who these people

really are. That's "what" they are.

[madaboutharry]

3. These people are so arrogant.

They forgot this important fact:

The "E" in email stands for Evidence!

[ProSense]

5. "Arrogant" is too kind.

They're soulless cretins who don't belong in any position remotely connected to government.

[gopiscrap]

4. Wow! what a bunch of fucking asswipes

[riversedge]

6. Walker's current adminstration has the same vile mentality.

I just wish this crap would be wildly disseminated.

[ProSense]

7. It's too bad it takes so long to expose these racist assholes. n/t

[riversedge]

9. I do not think it

matters to the 53%--who re-elected the poop in the recall! Maybe a few. Dems in WI really need boots on the ground for the NOV election

[progressoid]

8. I see they've changed the wording from "Black" to "mixed in color"

Sorry, it's still racist.

From 2010:

State GOP Chairman Resigns After Lazy Black Dog on Welfare Email
October 19, 2010

(ChattahBox Political News)—-Yet another Republican official has been caught forwarding a racist and offensive email using a work computer. This time it’s the chairman of the Virginia Beach Republican Party. But what’s a bit out of the ordinary with this case is the excuse. Instead of issuing the standard non-apology apology, saying sorry “if” it offended, this guy claims to be ignorant with how the new-fangled World Wide Web works.

David Bartholomew forwarded the racist “joke” to several friends in March. If you believe, his story, the now-former GOP chairman was apparently unaware that hitting the forward button would send the email through the innertubes.

Hampton Roads writes:

“David Bartholomew is not a racist and agreed to resign because the e-mail had become a distraction to the Nov. 2 election, said Gary Byler, the 2nd Congressional District GOP chairman, after meeting with Bartholomew.”

“The e-mail was dated March 15 and sent from the address that Bartholomew uses as party chairman. Bartholomew forwarded it without reading the contents when “he was first getting familiar with the Internet,” Byler said.”

...

MY DOG

I went down this morning to sign up my Dog for welfare.

At first the lady said, “Dogs are not eligible to draw welfare”.

So I explained to her that my Dog is black, unemployed, lazy, can’t speak English and has no frigging clue who his Daddy is.

So she looked in her policy book to see what it takes to qualify…

My Dog gets his first check Friday.

http://chattahbox.com/us/2010/10/19/state-gop-chairman-resigns-after-lazy-black-dog-on-welfare-email/

[riversedge]

10. umm. That Republican racist joke is

traveling the tubes well. I had not heard it till yesterday when I saw the emails. shameful.

[progressoid]

12. I would bet it has been on the computers of many GOP elected officials.

[gerogie2]

11. Why would any one be shocked or surprised by this?

Being an ex-conservative I can tell all the times conservative people at work or at church told racist jokes or pushed stereotypes about blacks and Hispanics or passed around notes or email with racists overtones.

If you're black, Hispanic, single mom or disabled the conservative crowd and their leaders hate you mostly because you supposedly "sponge off welfare" and other memes. Also the thinking is if a single woman gets pregnant she should be punished with a baby because she is a s*ut or Whore.