Open Mouth....Insert Foot....Lose Endorsement

I'm sure you all remember Chris Lee, the New York Congressman, and Republican, of course, who resigned after getting caught in an Internet flirtation with a woman who wasn't his wife.

Well, Jack Davis wanted to fill that seat; and then he opened his mouth.

Davis shocked local GOP leaders when, during an interview, he suggested Hispanic farmworkers be deported, and that the government then bus inner city African-Americans out to the farms of New York State to pick crops.

Oh, but he did. And before he made those asinine comments, he was the frontrunner for the GOP endorsement. Then came the news that he made similar statements back in 2008, when he said: "We have a huge unemployment problem with black youth in our cities. Put them on buses, take them out there [to the farms] and pay them a decent wage; they will work."

The GOP obviously has thrown their support behind another candidate, Assemblywoman Jane Corwin.

Davis spokesman W. Curtis Ellis acknowledged that Davis' comments "may not be politically correct and ... may not be racially correct," but when Davis was asked about his comments, he simply said, "It's politics."

Um, no it's not. It's racism.

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