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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEx-County Official Who Called Michelle Obama an 'Ape' Sentenced for Embezzling FEMA Funds
by Jerry Lambe | 11:00 am, May 31st, 2019
A former West Virginia county official who made headlines in 2016 for her racist online post about then-First Lady Michelle Obama was sentenced to prison Thursday for the embezzlement of disaster relief funds.
Pamela Ramsey Taylor, 57, the former director at the Clay County Development Corporation, a West Virginia-based elderly non-profit group, was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison and fined $10,000 for admitting that she falsely registered for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster benefits, according to a report from local news outlet WSAZ.
Taylors sentence also mandates her to pay restitution of $18,149.04; she will be confined to her home for two months after her release. Three years of supervised release will follow.
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Taylor made headlines for all the wrong reasons back in 2016. She posted the following on Facebook: It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady in the White House. Im tired of seeing an ape in heels. The Mayor of Clay County at the time, Beverly Whaling, responded to her post saying, Just made my day Pam.
The post was shared thousands of times. It resulted in a petition of nearly 2,000 local signatures, demanding that both women be fired from their jobs. Taylor eventually deleted the post and replaced it with an apology which she later amended, telling WSAZ she wanted to make it less inflammatory.
full article:
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/ex-county-official-who-called-michelle-obama-an-ape-sentenced-for-embezzling-fema-funds/
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Ex-County Official Who Called Michelle Obama an 'Ape' Sentenced for Embezzling FEMA Funds (Original Post)
DonViejo
May 2019
OP
Reminds me of those old Tammy Faye tshirts, w the smeared eye and lipstick make-up on the front,
Chin music
May 2019
#4
"Why are you locking me up? I voted for the grifter! This isn't fair!"
struggle4progress
May 2019
#9
malaise
(267,784 posts)1. Get thee to the greatest page
They are all scum
procon
(15,805 posts)2. Tammy Faye Bakker's long lost twin? nt
Chin music
(23,001 posts)4. Reminds me of those old Tammy Faye tshirts, w the smeared eye and lipstick make-up on the front,
that said. "I just ran into Tammy Faye".
malaise
(267,784 posts)7. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Should replace them with Smokey eye Sanders
Chin music
(23,001 posts)11. Oh gosh. They were funny.
I almost forgot about them. Hehe heh./
Heheheheh
kimbutgar
(20,871 posts)3. She kind of has ape like looking characteristics herself.
Judi Lynn
(160,211 posts)5. "A ape?" WTF. Apparently this vile POS doesn't have any mirrors in her house.
By the way, why did they try to clean up her language, when she clearly wrote "a ape" in Facebook? Journalists NEVER rewrite comments from any people of color who use ungrammatical language in interviews or articles.
Pamela could use some time spent at a finishing school for old, plump, ugly racist hillbillies. They could try to teach her to keep her piggy tongue in her mouth, and not loll it out when taking photos, or ever, actually.
malaise
(267,784 posts)8. Howling with laughter
You should see the tears of laughter running down my cheeks
brush
(53,467 posts)6. Put some lipstick on that pig, and heels while you're at it.
struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)9. "Why are you locking me up? I voted for the grifter! This isn't fair!"