{"id":22179,"date":"2013-06-27T16:23:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22179"},"modified":"2013-06-27T16:23:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T20:23:15","slug":"gop-official-resigns-after-racist-verbal-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22179","title":{"rendered":"GOP Official Resigns After Racist Verbal Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois GOP official <strong>Jim Allen<\/strong> resigned last Thursday (June 20) amid outrage over controversial remarks he made toward a Black Congressional candidate.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement, <strong>Allen<\/strong> called the woman a &#8220;street walker&#8221; who would only get a job to meet a minority &#8220;quota.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Erika Harold <\/strong>was on the receiving end of <strong>Allen&#8217;s <\/strong>disrespectful remarks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jim Allen<\/strong> stepped down from his post as Montgomery County Republican Party chairman after an email he sent about former Miss America and GOP congressional candidate <strong>Erika Harold<\/strong> was published by Republican News Watch. Illinois Republican Party Chairman <strong>Jack Dorgan<\/strong>, who called the email &#8220;offensive and inappropriate,&#8221; accepted <strong>Allen&#8217;s<\/strong> resignation.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois GOP official Jim Allen resigned last Thursday (June 20) amid outrage over controversial remarks he made toward a Black Congressional candidate. In the statement, Allen called the woman a &#8220;street walker&#8221; who would only get a job to meet a minority &#8220;quota.&#8221; Erika Harold was on the receiving end of Allen&#8217;s disrespectful remarks. Jim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}