For the second time in less than four months, Gov. Scott Walker has fired an aide for making demeaning comments about Hispanics on social media.
Walker — who has been calling on fellow Republicans to do more to reach out to minority voters — ousted Taylor Palmisano as his campaign's deputy finance director on Tuesday. The first-term governor made the move after No Quarter contacted his campaign regarding the inflammatory tweets.
In one, Palmisano, 23, complained about an individual who was doing custodial work in a library in which she was working.
"I will choke that illegal mex cleaning in the library. Stop banging (expletive) chairs around and turn off your Walkman," she posted on March 9, 2011.
Two months earlier, she went to Twitter to write about her bus trip from Pasadena, Calif., to Las Vegas after watching the Wisconsin Badgers play in the Rose Bowl: "This bus is my worst (expletive) nightmare Nobody speaks English & these ppl dont know how 2 control their kids #only3morehours #illegalaliens."
Palmisano's ouster comes even as she was lampooned by a variety media outlets for her bizarre fundraising appeal in which she encouraged parents to give to Walker's campaign fund instead of buying Christmas toys for their children.
Hey Republicans, how is that minority outreach thing going?
I understand that next Walker is planning to reach out to women by asking them why they aren't barefoot and pregnant.
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There you go again Lamestream Media, tripping her up and making her contradict herself with those 'gotcha' questions. Man, that was painful.
DeleteI'd like to see that lily white chicken armed girl stand up against anyone, much less an 'illegal,' and try and choke 'em. Bitch.
ReplyDeleteShe looks like Anchorage Mayor Sullivan's mistress, probably acts just like her also too there.
BY her name, she is most likel Italian and if her family is from northern Italy she is most likely darker than 95% of any Hispanics in the USA.
DeleteFour months after the tweets? Yeah. More like the fundraiser asking parents to send him the money they would usually spend on Christmas presents for their kids didn't go over as well as he'd have liked. Someone had to go.
ReplyDeleteAgree 7:43. Palmisano was acting like a typical Repug. She gets fired only after there have been lots of complaints and ridicule...Walker had to do something/anything.
ReplyDeletePalmisano? How many generations ago were they saying stuff like that about her family?
ReplyDeleteNice to see Walker is so tenderhearted about Mexicans. Guess that racist stuff isn't working out so well. Politically expedient and all that to throw his stupid deputy finance director under el autobús.
Vote Republican governors out of office across the nation as well as the ones in the U.S. Congress - especially Cantor, Boehner, McConnell, McCain, etc. They do absolutely zero for the American people.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin started the public display of racism and it's only gotten worse since she began it prior to 2008 - thank god McCain and she lost the race!!!
You have to ask why Walker's campaign is overloaded with these types of people... makes the firing seem to be only window dressing because it was made public.
ReplyDeleteSo this chick takes the bus from California to Wisconsin and expects it to be a gratifying experience? What, doesn't Walker pay his people enough to travel on planes?
ReplyDeleteGryphen, Gryphen, you should know better.
ReplyDeleteThese tweets aren't why she got fired, she got fired because she is the one that came up with the "take the toys and food from your children this holiday and send it to Scott Walker"
BTW If the young Ms Palmisano reads this...Do you have your green card? Your name sounds awful furrin to we. I am guessing you are of Italian ancestry and if you are shame on you, you have no idea what discrimination your great grandparents met when they were the immigrants.
Hey democrats, how's that immoral stereotyping workin for you? #generalizationsarentmature
ReplyDeleteAre you saying those racist tweets weren't racist?
DeleteBut let me remind you, at least some of Granny Palin's children aren't white, you know, that one drop thing and all that.
Fuckin' wop.
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Just moved to Wisconsin a few months ago and you're buying into the Republican-friendly media spin. Woman's being fired for a political gaffe, but Walker's throwing her to the wolves using tweets that were known about when he hired and then later promoted her. Cognitive Dissidents blog has the full story.
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