"I don't see where there's a story"...CA Councilman Gary Frago sent racist emails about Obama

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Yet another local official has gotten in hot water for sending around racist emails about the president. This time it's Gary Frago of Atwater, California.

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."

"I don't see where there's a story, I'm not the only one that does it," Fargo said in his defense, after the Merced Sun Star published the offensive emails. "I didn't originate them, they came to me and I just passed them on."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/17/gary-frago-california-cou_n_238040.html

CONTACT INFO:

http://www.atwater.org/index.cfm?page=322830

Mayor Pro Tem Gary Frago

Mr. Frago elected as a Council Member in November 2000 and relected in November 2004 and again in 2008. His term will expire in Nobember 2012.

Mr. Frago serves as the Mayor Pro Tem, a member of the Audit and Finance Committee, the Public Safety Committee and the Public Works Committee.

Mr. Frago is a businessman in the community.

Contacts

Gary Frago
City Council Member
750 Bellevue Road
Atwater, CA 95301
209-357-6300
209-357-6302
[e-mail]

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. It's okay cause everyone else does it?

I don't accept that excuse out of children. The people of Atwater shouldn't either.

[Orrex]

2. I suspect that some of his best friends are black

[cali]

3. Dear Gary: Let me help you understand, idiot.

It's a story because of your blatant and ugly racism, you fucking piece of shit.

Yrs,

Cali

[tularetom]

4. My wife's cousin knows this dildo

Or she did 50 years ago when they went to HS together, he was apparently a loud mouth asshole then and it looks like he hasn't changed much.

I suspect he is a republican, not because of his position atop the economic pyramid (he's apparently far from wealthy) but simply because of his (correct) perception that the republican party simply hates minorities.

Unfortunately there are many like him around here.