We just got off the phone with a Texas Republican Party official, who tells us that the party had absolutely no knowledge whatsoever about this tasteful button that was for sale at this past weekend's state GOP convention:
The button, which was flagged by AmericaBlog, was sold at a booth run by RepublicanMarket.com, a business that sells a lot of red-meat buttons, bumper stickers and other paraphernalia for GOP voters.
So did party officials know about this button being sold all weekend at their convention? In an interview with Election Central, Texas GOP political director Hans Klingler answered with an emphatic No. "We had hundreds of vendors at the convention," Klingler said. "I don't know what the merchandise is, we don't check the merchandise."
Klingler added that the party would have done something if it had been brought to their attention at the time. "We wouldn't have let him sell it."
Hmmm. This button seems like the sort of thing that would have been hard to miss, doesn't it?
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/texas_gop_we_didnt_know_about.phpTexas Repukes must be blind! Blind racism!