Fla. Lawmaker Quits Over Racial Slur

[Kadie]

Fla. Lawmaker Quits Over Racial Slur

Wednesday, November 1, 2006


(11-01) 08:32 PST Hialeah, Fla. (AP) --


A lawmaker resigned from the Florida Legislature on Wednesday, bowing to pressure to quit because of messages filled with obscenities and a racial slur that were left on a colleague's voice mail.

State Rep. Ralph Arza had been urged to resign by fellow House Republicans and by Gov. Jeb Bush.

Arza has admitted leaving the messages on fellow Republican Rep. Gus Barreiro's voice mail earlier this month, but said he was drunk.

Arza had learned that Barreiro filed a complaint alleging he had earlier used a racial epithet when referring to Miami-Dade County school superintendent Rudy Crew, who is black.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/11/01/national/a083215S16.DTL

[GrpCaptMandrake]

1. It's just another day in the racist, Repiglican neighborhood

I do wish that we didn't have such a timid, squeamish press. It would be nice to have the exact words used by the racist sleazebag.