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struggle4progress

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Tue Oct 20, 2015, 06:05 PM Oct 2015

A win for election integrity (NC)

Published 7:05 am Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Patrick Gannon

... The state board voted 3-2 to boot Malcolm “Mac” Butner Jr., a Republican, from his local board, at least in part because of derogatory and inflammatory posts he made about African-Americans, immigrants and the LGBT community on social media before the state board – which didn’t know about the posts at the time – appointed him to his position this summer ...

On Facebook, Butner commented on a photograph of Moral Monday protesters at the General Assembly. He wrote: “Gee, they are all black. I guess the white folk could not get off because they were too busy working being productive good citizens.” In a separate post, Butner wrote: “To hell with the lesbos, queers, liberals and baby killers.”

In a Twitter post responding to Oprah Winfrey winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Butner wrote: “Well you got your MOF (moment of fame) thanks to your black prez and lots of white women. Can you ever do anything on your own?”

In another post, Butner wrote that the “primary difference between the leaders of the Confederate States of America and the Union is that Confederate leaders were godly gentlemen and the Union folks were not” ...


http://www.salisburypost.com/2015/10/20/patrick-gannon-a-win-for-election-integrity/

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