Calls for resignation over email on Obama
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April 22, 2011, Friday
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THE head of Orange County's Republican Party is vowing to keep up the pressure on a local party official to resign for sending an offensive email about US President Barack Obama.
"This issue will not go away until she has taken 100 percent responsibility for sending out a racist email that offended millions," Chairman Scott Baugh said.
His comments came after Marilyn Davenport, speaking for the first time, said she would not resign and had no racist intentions when she sent the email.
The message depicted Obama's face superimposed over a baby chimp's. The text under the image reads, "Now you know why - No birth certificate!"
Some voters have maintained since the last presidential election that Obama is ineligible to hold the nation's highest elected office because, they argue, he was born in Kenya, his father's homeland. Obama's mother was an American citizen.
Hawaii officials have repeatedly confirmed Obama's citizenship, and his Hawaiian birth certificate has been made public. Courts have rebuffed lawsuits challenging Obama's eligibility.
Davenport, 74, represents the 72nd Assembly District on the Republican Party's Orange County Central Committee.
"I feel that it was inappropriate and I offended people," Davenport said. "I think it's only racist when the intent in my heart is to make it that way, and that was not the intent in my heart."
"This issue will not go away until she has taken 100 percent responsibility for sending out a racist email that offended millions," Chairman Scott Baugh said.
His comments came after Marilyn Davenport, speaking for the first time, said she would not resign and had no racist intentions when she sent the email.
The message depicted Obama's face superimposed over a baby chimp's. The text under the image reads, "Now you know why - No birth certificate!"
Some voters have maintained since the last presidential election that Obama is ineligible to hold the nation's highest elected office because, they argue, he was born in Kenya, his father's homeland. Obama's mother was an American citizen.
Hawaii officials have repeatedly confirmed Obama's citizenship, and his Hawaiian birth certificate has been made public. Courts have rebuffed lawsuits challenging Obama's eligibility.
Davenport, 74, represents the 72nd Assembly District on the Republican Party's Orange County Central Committee.
"I feel that it was inappropriate and I offended people," Davenport said. "I think it's only racist when the intent in my heart is to make it that way, and that was not the intent in my heart."
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