Gary Frago, California Councilman, Sent Racist Anti-Obama Jokes To Staff

[democracy1st]

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."

Previous disastrous interactions between racially-insensitive public officials and modern technology include the "historical keepsake photo" sent around by a Tennessee state government staffer, the picture of watermelons on the White House lawn distributed by a California mayor, and the Michelle Obama gorilla joke posted on Facebook by a GOP activist and ex-official.

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

[David__77]

1. His picture

[Colobo]

6. He looks like a rotten turd.

[orwell]

2. Ah the cockroaches...

...scurry from the light.

"I don't see where there's a story, I'm not the only one that does it,"

That just about says it all.

[David__77]

3. He is, of course, a Republican by the way...

Low-level figure in that right-wing lucacy of the GOP in the central valley of California. Some day they'll wake up and they'll all be out of a job once all the Latinos register to vote.

[DarkVigilante]

4. Ban

Well unfortunately he is a registered democrat. Probably a Repukeliklan in disguise though.

[Thrill]

5. Whats new?