Another Republican city councilman gets caught emailing racist jokes about Obama

Disgraced Republican city councilman Gary Frago

“Atwater City Councilman Gary Frago has been rung up in the local papers for sending racially tainted jokes concerning President Obama to fellow councilmembers and other prominent city and community officials,” according to the California City News blog.

Remember that this happened to the former Mayor of Los Alamitos a few months ago.  That Republican ended up stepping down from his council seat.  Frago however seemed unapologetic just a few days ago:

“My question is what’s wrong with them?” Frago said of the jokes, adding “I’m not the only one that does it.”

However today’s news brought an apology from Frago:

“I made a mistake,” he said of the e-mails, circulated from October 2008 to February 2009. “It was a mistake I shouldn’t have made and I apologize for it. I wasn’t being racist, I was just passing on e-mails,” according to the Merced Sun-Star.

It might be too late.  Other city officials in Atwater are now stearing clear of Frago – and many residents are calling on him to resign.  He is done politically.

Will the California Republicans ever learn?

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