Racist button sold at Texas Republican Convention- Page 2

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 5:22pm

I can't believe their good "Christian" morals allow them to sell something like this:

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 5:27pm

I burst out laughing when I saw the "Rudy '08!" lapel pins were now only $1!!!!!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 5:49pm

WTF???

[misschung]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 6:07pm

Ew to the Monica Lewinsky button. gross

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 8:17pm

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 8:26pm

OS, that button coordinates well with this one:

[Liverpool]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 8:33pm

all they're missing is 3 words, one starting with I one with S and one with T and that last button is perfect.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 8:54pm

Well, if you rearrange the words, it spells "crap."

Christian
Republican
American
Proud

[Calvin]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 8:58pm

The bigot one took me a while to get.

At first I thought they were calling the Mongolian goddess of marriage fat.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 6/17/08 at 10:05pm

Updated On: 6/17/08 at 10:05 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/18/08 at 6:28pm

The GOP took the button off sale:

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By APRIL CASTRO, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago

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."

Barack Obama, who clinched the Democratic nomination this month, is the first black presidential nominee of a major party.

The vendor, Jonathan Alcox, said he was trying to be funny and based the button on a political cartoon. He said he made 12 buttons and sold four, two of them to reporters.

"We're into humor, not racism," said Alcox, who described himself as an independent who may vote for Obama in November. "Why would I do that purposely? I thought it was funny."

The state GOP will bar the vendor from booth space at future events and "encourage him to clean up his act," Klingler said.

"The Republican Party of Texas told me I can never go there again. They're my biggest event," Alcox said. "It's pretty much put me out of business."

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

The Texas Republican Party, whose platform is often far to the right of the national GOP, has been in hot water over diversity issues before.

In 1998, the Log Cabin Republicans, the nation's largest organization of gay Republicans, was denied a booth at the GOP state convention in Fort Worth and likened to the Ku Klux Klan by a Texas Republican Party spokesman.

"We don't allow pedophiles, transvestites or cross-dressers, either," then-GOP spokesman Robert Black said at the time.
Texas GOP cuts off vendor that sold racist button