Top Texas Republicans pressure a county chair to resign over racist text

[TexasTowelie]

by Patrick Svitek, Texas Tribune


Some of Texas' top Republicans are urging a county party leader to step down after the revelation that she sent a text that included a racist slur.

By Saturday night, Galveston County Republican Party Chairwoman Yolanda Waters was facing pressure from Gov. Greg Abbott, Texas GOP Party Chairman James Dickey and Land Commissioner George P. Bush. It was the latest example of statewide Republicans moving quickly to denounce racism in their own ranks after a firestorm days ago involving a state representative complaining about his "Asian" primary challengers.

The Galveston County situation, first reported Saturday evening by the Galveston Daily News, centers on a months-old text exchange in which Waters complained to another person about her local State Republican Executive Committee member — J.T. Edwards, who is black. In the texts, she referred to him as a "Typical N*g."

Waters told the newspaper she made an "unfortunate typo" but did not elaborate on what she had meant instead, saying she could not remember. She apologized in a Facebook post to "anyone who took my typo in offense" and said she intends "to keep my position in the upcoming election."

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2019/12/07/texas-republicans-racist-text-resign/

[Gothmog]

1. Galveston is only 40 miles from downtown Houston but is really in a different world

This does not surprise me