July 17, 2006

Gramscians demand ouster of Maryland comptroller

The WaPo's Ann E. Marimow offers "Rights Groups Say Schaefer's Run Must End" about far-far-lefties opposing Maryland's former governor and now comptroller:

A far-reaching collection of Maryland's Asian, Latino, black and women's rights leaders denounced Comptroller William Donald Schaefer yesterday for what they called a series of intolerant public statements -- and they told the former governor that it is "time to go."

Wow, sounds serious. Except, the provided remarks don't exactly rise to any sort of questionable level that I can see. Rather, it appears to be a power play by far-leftie, Gramscian racial power groups. And, if that wasn't clear, there's this near the end:

Leaders of the National Capital Immigrant Coalition have their eyes on more than 277,000 black, Latino and Asian residents who are eligible to vote but have not yet registered.

"We have the power, we have the capacity, to remove the policymakers who hate us," said Gustavo Torres, executive director of CASA of Maryland. "And let me tell you, we are going to do this."

That last link provides another quote from this fine quote source:

"We are going to target [the MMP members] in a specific way... [by taking their own pictures]... Then we are going to picket their houses, and the schools of their kids, and go to their work... If they are going to do this to us, we are going to respond in the same way, to let people know their neighbors are extremists, that they are anti-immigrant. They are going to hear from us."

Shouldn't the WaPo remove someone who says things like that from their Rolodexes?

It probably won't do any good, but you can contact here through this form.

Posted to Politics at July 17, 2006 10:35 PM

Comments

Shouldn't the WaPo remove someone who says things like that from their Rolodexes?

Maybe. But they won't. Because 'extremism in the pursuit of politically correct racial sensitivity is no vice'. Or something like that. Perhaps you were not aware.

Posted by: eh at July 18, 2006 05:20 AM

eh is right

Posted by: Fred Dawes at July 20, 2006 08:18 PM

Seems racism is just fine with everyone... permissable, respectable,to be encouraged and admired, IF you are one of the favored ones. Who is being intolerant of who?

Posted by: Jeebie at November 23, 2006 01:01 PM