Scott Walker campaign aide fired after tweets demeaning Hispanics (and black friday $$$ appeal fail)

[n2doc]

For the second time in less than four months, Gov. Scott Walker has fired an aide for making demeaning comments about Hispanics on social media.

Walker — who has been calling on fellow Republicans to do more to reach out to minority voters — ousted Taylor Palmisano as his campaign's deputy finance director on Tuesday. The first-term governor made the move after No Quarter contacted his campaign regarding the inflammatory tweets.

In one, Palmisano, 23, complained about an individual who was doing custodial work in a library in which she was working.

"I will choke that illegal mex cleaning in the library. Stop banging (expletive) chairs around and turn off your Walkman," she posted on March 9, 2011.

Two months earlier, she went to Twitter to write about her bus trip from Pasadena, Calif., to Las Vegas after watching the Wisconsin Badgers play in the Rose Bowl: "This bus is my worst (expletive) nightmare Nobody speaks English & these ppl dont know how 2 control their kids #only3morehours #illegalaliens."

Palmisano's ouster comes even as she was lampooned by a variety media outlets for her bizarre fundraising appeal in which she encouraged parents to give to Walker's campaign fund instead of buying Christmas toys for their children.



Read more from Journal Sentinel: http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/scott-walker-campaign-aide-fired-after-tweets-demeaning-hispanics-b99155734z1-234291761.html

[mercuryblues]

1. if she

had just kept her racism behind the closed doors in private discussions, she would still have a job.

She wasn't fired because she made demeaning comments. She was fired for making demeaning comments publically.

[cheyanne]

2. A 23 year-old deputy director of finance for Walker's campaign?

Let me think . . . she seems a little young for the job . . .maybe not much experience . . .

I would like to see her resume . . . just asking . . .

[Ed Suspicious]

3. Vile creature.

[Jimbo S]

4. I was once young and dumb

but I never spoke like that.

Agree with the above poster, awfully young for a senoir level position. How did she score a job like that? When I was 23, I was suffering through my first post-college entry-level job like the rest of the people my age.

[hue]

5. She has been on Wanker's staff for > 2 yrs. now. Wanker knew about the tweets all along.

[dembotoz]

6. just damage control from thanksgiving contribute instead of xmas gifts snafu