N.C. Republican Activist Resigns After Voter ID Remarks - but Refuses to Apologize
After bragging in a TV interview that the state’s Voter ID regulations would “kick the Democrats in the butt,” and after making reference to “lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything,” a North Carolina conservative activist has stepped down from his Republican Party post.
Don Yelton made the decision to leave after the Buncome County GOP asked him to resign his position as a precinct chairman, according to the Asheville Citizen-Times. Yelton made the comments on Wednesday’s edition of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show on television, setting off a firestorm of reaction in social media land.
Yelton told the Citizen-Times that in spite of the circumstances, he would not change anything, and he refused to apologize.
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