Black GOP Official Resigns, Citing Arizona Tea Party Threats

[Bfgrn]

The sole black Republican Party district chairman in Arizona resigned from his post in the wake of Saturday's shooting, citing threats from the Tea Party faction and concerns for his family's safety.

District Chairman Anthony Miller and several others resigned.

Miller, a 43-year-old Ahwatukee Foothills resident and former campaign worker for U.S. Sen. John McCain, was re-elected to a second one-year term last month. He said constant verbal attacks after that election and Internet blog posts by some local members with Tea Party ties made him worry about his family's safety.

The first and only African-American to hold the party's precinct chairmanship, Miller said he has been called "McCain's boy," and during the campaign saw a critic form his hand in the shape of a gun and point it at him.

"I wasn't going to resign but decided to quit after what happened Saturday," Miller said. "I love the Republican Party but I don't want to take a bullet for anyone."

His resignation comes in the wake of the attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Tucson), and the killing of several others, including a federal judge, at a political rally over the weekend. Although there have been no links discovered between the shooter, Jared Loughner, and the Tea Party, political opponents have blamed the movement and one of its major figures, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, for creating an atmosphere that encourages violence.

Last month, Miller was re-elected to his second term as district chairman following the November general election, which saw Democratic incumbents like U.S. Rep. Harry Mitchell (D-Ariz.) and state Rep. Rae Waters (D-Ahwatukee Foothills) unseated in favor of Republican candidates.

Miller said the recent party election involved infighting between Miller and his allies and a "radical" local Tea Party faction calling itself the "New Vision" slate.

"There's trouble within the Republican Party," he said. "I'm seeing this new faction, the Sarah Palin type of Republicans."

The Arizona Republic

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bgfrn is nothing but a race baiting snatch...he twisted the article to make it appear as if this was solely about race....

Jeff Kolb, spokesman for the Legislative District 20 GOP, and the group's secretary, Sophia Johnson, also submitted their resignations.

and this so called tea party faction consists of these five people:

None of the members of the New Vision slate - consisting of Bill Baxter, Jeni White and James Troutman, who won election to party leadership positions, and former Congressional candidate Mark Spinks and Tom Morrissey

apparently there was tension because miller wasn't viewed as conservative enough....i smell bullshit

 

[cawacko]

Looks like Bfgrn is doing his best Webbway imitation.

I can't speak to any possible threats but Tea Party people targeting Republicans for not being conservative enough is really no different than progressives who targeted Blue Dogs for not being liberal enough.

 

[Bfgrn]

Looks like Bfgrn is doing his best Webbway imitation.

I can't speak to any possible threats but Tea Party people targeting Republicans for not being conservative enough is really no different than progressives who targeted Blue Dogs for not being liberal enough.

Yea, I'm sure Anthony Miller was just being a fucking baby when they called him 'boy' and someone formed their hand into a gun and pointed it at him.

If anyone is webbway, it is you...Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace

 

[cawacko]

Yea, I'm sure Anthony Miller was just being a fucking baby when they called him 'boy' and someone formed their hand into a gun and pointed it at him.

If anyone is webbway, it is you...Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace

How can I be webbway when I don't even know how to import a picture to create my own avatar let alone post a picture of someone in a thread?

Nice job on cutting the 'McCain's boy' quote in half trying to give it more of a racial feel. It's not like you're 18 years old I would think you would have heard many people called someone's boy. For example our ex-Mayor in San Francisco who you've probably heard of, Gavin Newsom, who is white has always been called Getty's Boy become the billionaire white Getty family has been his sugar daddy from day one.

Well played though sir in trying to make it racial.

I will say unless you are a rapper posing for an album cover putting your hands in the form of a gun and pointing it at someone is completely unacceptable.

 

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Yea, I'm sure Anthony Miller was just being a fucking baby when they called him 'boy' and someone formed their hand into a gun and pointed it at him.

If anyone is webbway, it is you...Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace

race baiter

its amazing how quickly you believe someone when its suits your agenda....and amazing how you ignore that whites also quit

this guy is most likely full of shit and since its fits your world view, you are falling hook line and sinker

 

[leaningright]

I will say unless you are a rapper posing for an album cover putting your hands in the form of a gun and pointing it at someone is completely unacceptable.

How about kids on the playground playing cowboys and indians or cops and robbers?

 

[cawacko]

How about kids on the playground playing cowboys and indians or cops and robbers?

Haha, excellent question.

I shall restate my comment. For adults putting your hand in the form of a pistol and shooting at someone in a political context is not acceptable.

Little kids running around the playground it's ok.

 

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race baiter

its amazing how quickly you believe someone when its suits your agenda....and amazing how you ignore that whites also quit

this guy is most likely full of shit and since its fits your world view, you are falling hook line and sinker

Rep McDermott WA has made public his death threats from liberal's angry over his vote to "extend tax cuts for the wealthy"- proving once again angry voters are a bi-partisan issue!

 

[leaningright]

Haha, excellent question.

I shall restate my comment. For adults putting your hand in the form of a pistol and shooting at someone in a political context is not acceptable.

Little kids running around the playground it's ok.

LOL....I had to throw that in there amidst all this serious stuff as I see it almost everyday...and almost everyday am thankful that where I live it still isn't a big deal for the kids to play that way. Reminds me of the good old days.

Back to the serious side of things, I do agree with your original point. Adults, political context...pistol hand...not cool....or acceptable even.

 

[RockX]

One lone nut-job goes postal, and this guy folds like two squares of toilet tissue. Wow. Me thinks this guy has to sit down to pee.

 

[DamnYankee]

There's trouble within the Republican Party," he said. "I'm seeing this new faction, the Sarah Palin type of Republicans."

Don't let the door kit you on the ass on your way out...

 

[Bfgrn]

race baiter

its amazing how quickly you believe someone when its suits your agenda....and amazing how you ignore that whites also quit

this guy is most likely full of shit and since its fits your world view, you are falling hook line and sinker

Hey Yurt...do you need a translator? Is mommy out? The guy quit because he was fearful of violence..."I love the Republican Party but I don't want to take a bullet for anyone." Anthony Miller

YOU are the one focusing on his race. So that must be YOUR agenda.

It is clear that anything these tea party members do gets a pass from you...even when they do it to a Republican. THAT is having an agenda.

 

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Hey Yurt...do you need a translator? Is mommy out? The guy quit because he was fearful of violence..."I love the Republican Party but I don't want to take a bullet for anyone." Anthony Miller

YOU are the one focusing on his race. So that must be YOUR agenda.

It is clear that anything these tea party members do gets a pass from you...even when they do it to a Republican. THAT is having an agenda.

what a dishonest hack...i'm focusing on race? let's see YOUR title as compared to the title of the actual article:

your title - Black GOP Official Resigns

actual title - Republicans in turmoil after leadership resigns over safety fears


you are the one who focused on his race, no one else, you altered the original title to make the focus on race.

care to apologize?

 

[Bfgrn]

How can I be webbway when I don't even know how to import a picture to create my own avatar let alone post a picture of someone in a thread?

Nice job on cutting the 'McCain's boy' quote in half trying to give it more of a racial feel. It's not like you're 18 years old I would think you would have heard many people called someone's boy. For example in our ex-Mayor in San Francisco who you've probably heard of, Gavin Newsom, who is white has always been called Getty's Boy become the billionaire white Getty family has been his sugar daddy from day one.

Well played though sir in trying to make it racial.

I will say unless you are a rapper posing for an album cover putting your hands in the form of a gun and pointing it at someone is completely unacceptable.

Calling a white person someones 'boy' and calling a black person someones 'boy' have a totally different connotation. Did you ever study American history? The Civil War?? Slavery???

Calling a black man anyone's 'boy' has very historical racial overtones.

 

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race baiter

its amazing how quickly you believe someone when its suits your agenda....and amazing how you ignore that whites also quit

this guy is most likely full of shit and since its fits your world view, you are falling hook line and sinker

Why are you forming an opinion before all the facts are in?

Isn't that the very thing you spent the entire weekend whining about?

A shame your partisan hacktitude won't allow you to do as you tell others to do...

 

[Bfgrn]

what a dishonest hack...i'm focusing on race? let's see YOUR title as compared to the title of the actual article:

your title - Black GOP Official Resigns

actual title - Republicans in turmoil after leadership resigns over safety fears


you are the one who focused on his race, no one else, you altered the original title to make the focus on race.

care to apologize?

I composed my own title. And you cut out the 'Citing Arizona Tea Party Threats'...WHY is that Yurt?

My focus, and the bulk of the excerpts I posted from the articles was on the threats of VIOLENCE. The fact that he is black is only important for the context of being called someone's 'boy'.

 

[cawacko]

Calling a white person someones 'boy' and calling a black person someones 'boy' have a totally different connotation. Did you ever study American history? The Civil War?? Slavery???

Calling a black man anyone's 'boy' has very historical racial overtones.

You straight up say "boy" then yeah. To say you are the "puppet" of someone by using the word boy then no I'm not with you.

Of course not being there I can't say for 100% fact what the guy who said it intentions really were.

 

[leaningright]

Calling a white person someones 'boy' and calling a black person someones 'boy' have a totally different connotation. Did you ever study American history? The Civil War?? Slavery???

Calling a black man anyone's 'boy' has very historical racial overtones.

Here's the old "it's different for them than it is for us" argument. I knew this argument would come about as soon as I read cawacko's post. Surprised it took this long. If the guy resigned for fear of violence (and it appears that this is the reason)....fine. I hate that he felt that threatened. If he resigned solely because some nitwit called him someone's boy...his skin is too thin.

For months now one side has seen the surge of the Tea Party's support and they are fighting back the only way they know how it seems (otherwise they'd resort to better tactics). The seem to be trying to paint all of them into a neat little box as racist, gun-toting, slobbering idiots blindly following the commands and directions of Sarah Palin and the like.

I think this mantra by the left ... I think it's gonna backfire....and I am not real happy about that. I like some of what the TP stands for but having either side completely in control right now wouldn't be a good thing, IMO.