The CT Democratic Party has decided to issue a "strongly worded letter" of disapproval to Joe Lieberman for his support of Republican presidential candidate John McCain. May we suggest two letters:
Update: I love how these lowlife Liebercrats all blame "political payback" for their own damn stupidity [see Fabrizi, see Perez, see Fast Jimmy Amann]. Karma is indeed sweet. -Scarce
State Democratic Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo has joined a growing number of party members asking one of their own to resign, citing a "Proud to be White" e-mail that he forwarded to more than a dozen friends.
Patsy Papandrea of Meriden, a Democratic State Central Committee member for 27 years, has apologized for forwarding the message to 16 people in March. He said he did not read all of it before sending it, believing it was a joke.
DiNardo asked Papandrea, 66, on Wednesday to resign his post and chastised him for sending a message she described as a "severe affront to our families, friends and neighbors."
The local head of the NAACP also joins in:
But Barbara Wade Holloman, president of the Meriden-Wallingford NAACP, said party leaders are right to seek Papandrea's ouster.
"He needs to resign," Holloman said. "He can't represent us and expect us to support him in the black community. We don't have to accept anything like that. We will push until he resigns."
Papandrea continues to act as if this is just retribution for his outspoken support of Lieberman last year. That doesn't speak very well for Lieberman, who should also be calling for Papandrea's resignation.
Read the full email. It's racist, anti-semitic, and disgusting. And it's impossible to read even one sentence of it and not understand its meaning fully. Forwarding it to anyone, much less to non-white party officials (which he did), is a despicable act.
(A reminder: You can still vote in the poll at the Record Journal's website on whether Papandrea should resign - left side, apx. halfway down).
Three members of [Meriden's] state delegation and Democratic Town Chairwoman Mildred Torres-Ferguson have asked Patsy Papandrea to resign from his state committee seat, an elected position representing Meriden, Middlefield, Middletown and Cheshire.
Papandrea, who has served in that post for 27 years and is a former town party chairman, sent a message titled "Proud to be White" to 16 people on March 22. The list included three town committee members.
The e-mail, which opens with "Someone finally said it," appears to be written from the perspective of a white person challenging holidays and institutions dedicated to minorities.
"If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships, you know we'd be racists," the anonymous e-mail writer states. "There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black colleges in the US, yet if there were White colleges, THAT would be racist."
Majority Leader Chris Donovan is among those demanding that Papandrea resign.
Papandrea's explanation? That he thought the email was a "joke" (beacuse, as we all know, there's nothing funnier than defending white supremacy), and that, in reality, this is all blowback for his support of Lieberman last year:
Papandrea says Donovan is out to control the party, and that the e-mail fallout is because he questioned Donovan's actions before the party primary last year.
You can vote in a poll on this on the front page of the Record Journal's website.
Update: Full text of the forwarded email below the fold (and mattw notes that this one seems to have been going around the internets for a while):
Don Michak gives us some of the flavor of the JJB tonight (I'm sure folks who were there will have much more to add later):
Lieberman, who did not attend the fundraising dinner because of his customary observance of the Jewish Sabbath, also was notably absent from the long list of party leaders cited in Democratic State Chairman Nancy DiNardo's welcoming remarks.
That roster began with former Gov. William A. O'Neill, who also was not in attendance, ran through each of the state's constitutional officers, legislative leaders, and current and former members of Congress, and even included Lamont, whose mention was greeted with a standing ovation and loud cheers.
Meanwhile, Democrats who can usually be counted on to deliver pithy remarks on practically anything proved especially reluctant to make on-the-record comments about Lieberman....
One politician, a former state officeholder who has remained active in the campaigns of several Democrats, even volunteered that he had recently met with a "major fundraiser" for Lieberman who was angry that the senator had become more hawkish since their last meeting.
...Asked again about Lieberman in particular, Dodd reiterated that "Joe's been a friend" with a "long list" of accomplishments for the Democratic Party.
"I believe many people here would have given him a warm welcome," he added.
But Sean Smith, a political operative who served as manager of Lieberman's primary campaign, didn't agree.
"I don't think it would be a good reception," he said, smiling.
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