Another GOP Official Sends Out Racist Emails and Gets Caught.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

In the past several months Atwater City Councilman Gary Frago has sent at least a half-dozen e-mails to city staff and other prominent community members containing racist jokes aimed at President Barack Obama, his wife and black people in general.

In all, the Sun-Star obtained seven e-mails that Frago sent from October 2008 to February 2009 from an anonymous source. Some compared Obama to O.J. Simpson while others suggested that "nigger rigs" should now be called "presidential solutions." Perhaps the most overboard e-mail was sent on Jan. 15. It read: "Breaking News Playboy just offered Sarah Palin $1 million to pose nude in the January issue. Michelle Obama got the same offer from National Geographic."

Frago, 63, who was the city's first paid firefighter and has been on the City Council since 2000, said the e-mails were not meant to harm anyone. He has nothing against black people or the president, he said."I don't see where there's a story, I'm not the only one that does it," he said. "I didn't originate them, they came to me and I just passed them on."Frago said he sends all kinds of joke e-mails about every one from Jews to Portuguese (Frago is of Portuguese descent). These e-mails were just meant for friends, not public officials, he added. Frago said any e-mails were sent via personal accounts.For instance, the e-mails he sent to Merced County Supervisor Mike Nelson were sent to his Yahoo account, said Frago.When asked again if he had any regrets about sending the e-mails, he said: "No, because I didn't see any harm in them."

http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/story/955392.html

[livetohike]

1. "I'm not the only one that does it." These Republicans are such

juveniles with their immature reasoning. The party of individual responsibility - yeah right.

[roguevalley]

12. I've never wanted to bitch slap someone so bad in my life.

[redqueen]

13. Someone should ask him to prove it... provide examples. (nt)

[kestrel91316]

2. Ok, DUers, you know what to do, lol. Forward this beauty to everyone

on your email lists.

Mr. Frago needs to stop sucking at the public teat he obviously hates deep inside and get a "real" job. I'd offer him entry level kennel work but he's not qualified due to his temperament.

[lapfog_1]

3. President Obama's election, far from signaling the end of

racial tensions in this country, has done the opposite. It has exposed the racial bigotry that lies at the heart of conservative white christian America like a knife cutting into a festering sore. The putrid smell that is now rising from the body politic is overwhelming.

[CitizenLeft]

4. well said.

Before his 1st term is up, we're all going to need Hazmat suits.

[BlooInBloo]

6. +1

[HopeOverFear]

7. +1

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. Well, you know, lancing a sore is often the first step to healing it.

This crap is making it really, really hard for them to claim it doesn't exist. It makes denial damn near impossible.

[CakeGrrl]

15. Exactly. They can't deal with it and are coming out of the woodwork. n/t

[ecstatic]

16. +10. It's getting worse, not better

I can't believe some of the things I've been hearing lately.

[Lilyeye]

22. Sadly this is true. I've ditched a lot of friends after this election

when they showed their true colors. It was sad to see people I was close with start acting like their bigoted parents.

[BlooInBloo]

5. "I'm not the only one that does it" - depending on other white folks to pipe up for him...

standard White Unity defense.

If enough white folks speak up in support, either by "benefit of the doubt", "let's wait for all the facts", or some other explaining-away, it'll work.

[AspenRose]

10. "I see no harm in it" and "it doesn't hurt anyone"

standard White Bigot Unity defense numbers two and three

[BlooInBloo]

11. Yah. There's also the irony of this bigot's defense being to say how common people like him are...

And then the racism-defending-denying peanut gallery typically chimes in with just the opposite "it's just a few bad apples" defense.

:rofl:

It's like they're all playing a game of keep-away from those of us who can't stand the bigotry.

[Cha]

20. So says the racist, bigoted

fuck.

[Lilyeye]

21. I agree, you also hear the "stop pulling the race card" often.

For those type of idiots, calling a racist out is considered worse than making actual racist comments.

[rvablue]

8. K&R. n/t

[boppers]

14. Aww, HELL NO.

"Frago is of Portuguese descent"... Great, so one's ethnicity allows one to mock others?

Yeahbutno. Kick this putrid slimeball out.

[BlooInBloo]

17. :) It's one of the fun ways we like to say "see? Other brown folks do it...

so it must be ok for white folks to do it! Right? You don't want to be reverse-racist do you? DO YOU???"

:rofl:



EDIT: Good catch.

[boppers]

18. Oh, bigotry knows no color. It's universal.

I'm part Polish.

Know any "polack jokes"?

Why do you know them?

[Cha]

19. Oh yeah, like he's going to admit he's

racist fuck. When caught plead stupidity..it's always worked for him in the past.

How did the SunStar get ahold of these emails?

Jokes like this show a level of insecurity and an inferiority complex that needs to be fed constantly in an attempt to puff themselves up.

In other news..it's 105 degrees in Merced, today.

[Number23]

23. SemiCharmed, don't forget to add this to your (growing) list of racist crap in AAIG!

:hi:

K&R

[zoff]

24. He needs to pray and write.

[firedupdem]

25. Not surprised. What a sicko. n/t