Texas GOP cuts off vendor that sold racist button

[RamboLiberal]

The Texas Republican Party is distancing itself from a vendor who sold campaign buttons at last weekend's state convention that asked, "If Obama is president ... will we still call it The White House?"

The state GOP party said Wednesday that it will donate the $1,500 rent it collected from the vendor, Republicanmarket.com, to Midwestern flood victims.

State GOP spokesman Hans Klingler said the party does not vet the merchandise being sold, but officials plan to discuss doing so in the future. The button sales at the convention in Houston were first reported in the Dallas Morning News.

"This vendor need not apply to another Texas GOP state convention," Klingler said. "We will neither tolerate nor profit from bigotry."

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State GOP officials said they also have alerted the Republican National Convention so that the vendor, Jonathan Alcox, will not be allowed to sell merchandise at the convention in St. Paul, Minn., in September.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/mochila/Texas_GOP_cuts_off_vendor_that_sold_06182008.html

Too bad, I was hoping some of the same dumbass Repukes who wore the purple heart bandaids would wear these at the convention and be shown in media shots!

[tridim]

1. The buttons are still for sale and I bet they're selling like hotcakes.

Chances are we'll still see these buttons and others that are even more racist.

[malaise]

2. Fuck them

They got caught - moving along.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Keep an eye on them...

Probably go back to working with the vendor in a couple days, like those people who make and sell Obama sock monkeys.

[whatchamacallit]

4. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!

Fucking lying GOP.

[No More Bushbots]

5. A Wink and a Nod

He will be encouraged to sell merchandise outside of the convention in St. Paul.

[gatorboy]

6. Busted. n/t