Sen. Diane Black's Racist Email
Republican Legislative Aid Sherri Goforth admitted yesterday to sending a photo montage of U.S. Presidents from her state-owned computer and email account with President Barack Obama depicted as a pair of floating eyes in darkness. Sen. Black told the media that a written reprimand is all she and other TN GOP leaders intend to do about the email. Goforth is a 20 year state employee and makes close to $50,000 a year.
Goforth made matters worse yesterday by suggesting she was more sorry about being exposed as a racist than she was at her poor judgment and character.
“I went on the wrong email and I inadvertently hit the wrong button,” Goforth told NIT. “I’m very sick about it, and it’s one of those things I can’t change or take back.”
The Tennessee Democratic Party has called on Senate Republican leadership to fire Goforth.
“I am calling on Sen. Black to reject this racist smear and fire this staffer who, on state government time, on state government computers, using a state government email account, launched this bigoted attack on our president,” Forrester said. “Keeping her on the staff would send the message that this type of behavior is condoned by the House Republican Caucus.”
The new leadership of the Tennessee Republican Party has refused to comment on the story hoping this latest incident of racism will disappear. Sen. Bill Ketron (R-13) and Sen. Jim Tracy (R-16) haven’t said a word about their party boss’s decision to keep Goforth employed on the tax payer’s dime.
Since Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey’s backroom budget includes so many firings of state employees, we think he could save at least one working family’s breadwinner from a pink slip by firing this racist staffer. Will Ramsey, Black and the Republican leadership show that kind of integrity? Stay tuned…
