African-American GOP Official Resigns, Citing Arizona Tea Party Threats

sure I can fault him he's a douche and has no fortitude or courage so screw 'em

there is a reason why we hail saints and heroes and martyrs , because they are few and a special crowd of humans , if one believes being there to put their kids through college , he may not be a national folk hero , but he is a hero to his family and i dont blame him for thinking that matters , too few of us in the world nowadays value being a hero in the eyes of our wives and children.

Thanks...

he cited threats though... maybe in the quote he didn't list tea partiers, doesn't mean it's not threats from them.

*EDIT* nevermind. he said attacks, I read it hours before replying to you, and i must have replaced the word in my mind.

i didnt go to the web page, just read the blurb up top here, and didnt see any threats mentioned, so i should have went to the source before i commented i guess lol

"Grab a rope" is not a threat?

lol since when do facts matter on current lol?

No whats misleading is that originally it was BLACK republican and I changed it to African-American

yup

hat tip

it's a threat dumbass. if you were surrounding by people whom you feel didn't particularly care for you and someone said something like that you would feel threatened you insensitive dick head

You, are the dumb ass. Do you even understand what I was saying. I was asking the question as stated by the apostrophe at the end of my sentence.
"Grab a rope" is not a threat? That is asking if one agrees with me that saying grab a rope is a threat. DUMB ASS!

prove it.
how do you know it's BS? because you disagree?

It's true I read it and wanted to post it here a few days ago but ran out of time

you're right, that evidence stuff, sure is a lynch pin to all that political reporting out there.

Evidence of what? He resigned for whatever reason. Hes a coward either way.

yup those death threats never come to fruition.such a coward.its not like congressmen get shot...................oh wait ooops.

if you're so patriotic take your ass back to Europe

So everyone who is threatened should step away from whatever it is they support , because they are threatened? I didn't here anyone calling King to step down because of threats. I didn't hear anyone telling Lennon to quite down because of threats. That my friends is a cowardly thing to do.

go to "x" place at "x" time tomorrow and im gunna shoot you in the face.

if you dont go are you a coward, or just not a glutton for punishment.

thier certainly are things worth dying over, and for some people thier job meets that criteria.for others not so much.ya cant fault some one for preservation of life (thier own) trumping all else.it is a minor insanity actualy to function any other way.an insanity that we often comend, but an insanity none the less.

lennon and king didnt get a heads up, and had no choice.big difference.i bet giffords had she had the choice may have taken a different action, as to avoid the situation she is in now.would that be cowardly or smart?

The guy let his opponents win.

in favor of not dying.that type of concession rules humanity as death is the ultimate threat to get what one wants.ya know when some one does something that they claim they didnt want to do, you ask "was a gun held to your head".
cuz the threat of mortal demise is the trump card.not unreasonable to not want to die, especialy for a job that you arent invested fully in.i sure as shit wouldnt die for my shit job.

This man was an elected official. Your "shit job" and his were obtained by completely different methods and with completely different standards and consequences. I'm sure if you left your "shit job", the people of you community and the ones who elected you to support their beliefs wont mind.

um can ya cite where in anyplace,potential death as a result of being an elected official is understood?
it isnt like to be elected ya have to be of a certain age, and accept death as a consiqunce of the job.death as a consiquence of a job tends to have sane people not do those jobs.

despite our history of assissination in our country, death doesnt come with the territory of being an elected official.it is the exception not the rule.to decide your life isnt worth public service isnt cowardly, its basic human nature.

there are always racists people in every group....

Tea party members are inclined to psychosis.

This is true ..sad but true..I'm not saying either is in a place of decency(or ever was) they all look as they are foolish and petty , ignorant... like Racism but this just seems just as confusing and not leader-like in its overt anti-Americanism in not standing behind your convictions let alone, words but then... crying foul themselves in fear and its "their" creation like a golem i dunno its all so ridiculous and tragic surreal and like a deja-vu like we didn't all see this and still see everywhere here too alot! They all have lost grip with reality and the people ....LONG LIVE FREEDOM SUPPORT CIVIL DEMOCRATIC DISCOURSE!(whenever pos.)

That is a sad fact

I was thinking a paranoid delusional disorder.

Especially now that they have both the Christian Extremists and the Tea Party Gunners.

hey its the gop pandoras box.they created this beast by appealing to zealots for the last 40 yrs.they dragged jesus into politics, and when werent able to make good on such a high degree of expectations, are now stuck with encited, self rightious, entitled people who want the results they have been promised.

It's easy for you to say that from a 1,000 miles away but I'm from Arizona. My family lives there still, and from what they're describing to me is a scene that really is as bad as Miller is concerned about. My older sister is a medical attorney that lives in Chandler, just outside of Phoenix. She's a conservative, but she also told me that she is always harassed by Whites on voters days. They always assume that she's a democrat and try to intimidate her by telling her that she's in the wrong precinct. Arizona, by all accounts from what my friends and family are telling, is a powder keg getting ready to blow.

I'm really surprised that you would make a comment like that Maas.

The interesting thing is that people are still trying their damnedest to make this shooting a political and/or a racial issue.

Guess what?

IT WASN'T!

It was just some whackjob who had an obsession with an attractive congresswoman and decided to try and kill her and a bunch of other people.

The media is out of control with all the hype on this, as usual.

I don't doubt that racial animosity is growing in many parts of the country, but if this republican party worker's wife thinks that her husband is in immediate danger because of the shooting then she is simply a sheep who is falling for media spin.

My patience with sheep is wearing thin, that's why I made this comment.

Like I said, good riddance but I wish him luck and I hope that he finds a nice safe career somewhere else.

Sorry Maas, but you're dead wrong this time. The situation in Arizona is as much a crisis as parts of the south was in the 60's.

Well we have to look at this as two seperate issues then because this article is mixing two seperate issues as if they are the same, and they are not!

1. The Chairman resigning from his position because his wife is worried for the safety of their family from threats from alleged Tea Party racists

OK fine, a man has to do what a man has to do, even if it means doing what his wife tells him to do.

2. The issue of the Chairman resigning because he/and or his wife thinks that the Tea Party had something to do with the Arizona shooting

This is complete nonsense. No one has shown me a shred of evidence that the Jared Lee Loughner was part of any Tea Party organization. The fact that he may have been vagely political (more left leaning than conservative TBH) at one point is simply not enough to tie him in with the left's political enemies.

I'm not doubting the racism in Arizona, I'm pointing out that the Chairman is wrong in blaming the fact that he is scared for the safety of his family on the shooting.

Still spining the lies Fox has told you?