Virginia Beach GOP Chair resigns after racist email

[Derechos]

Ken Longo named as new chair

Updated: Tuesday, 19 Oct 2010, 9:59 AM EDT
Published : Monday, 18 Oct 2010, 8:33 PM EDT

Andy Fox
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - The head of the Virginia Beach Republican party resigned Monday night after accusations that he forwarded a racist email.

David Bartholomew, Chair of the Virginia Beach Republican Committee, received and forwarded a racist joke in March, which can be read here .

After reading Bartholomew's email, Congressman Glenn Nye said, "This type of racist behavior has no place in politics. I call on Dave Bartholomew to resign immediately. I also call on Scott Rigell to join me in condemning this divisive, narrow-minded behavior by demanding Bartholomew's resignation."

Rigell, Nye's Republican Challenger, told WAVY.com, "The email and the fact it is not only received but transmitted is awful, and I repudiated it within minutes that this had happened."

Rigell also made a statement. "The email sent by Republican Party of Virginia Beach Chairman David Bartholomew is reprehensible. It stands in stark contrast to the core values of the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln, and my personal belief in a colorblind society. I call upon Mr. Bartholomew to immediately resign his position as Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia Beach."

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/nye-rigell-demand-vb-gop-chair-resign

You can read the forwarded racist e-mail message here: http://bluevirginia.us/diary/2026/virginia-beach-republican-committee-chair-forwards-racist-email

[underpants]

1. HAVE to post this in GD

:wow:

That excuse is so lame - he is just now "familiarizing" himself with the internet???