{"id":9336,"date":"2011-08-25T15:02:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T19:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9336"},"modified":"2011-08-25T13:52:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T17:52:33","slug":"gop-lawmaker-quits-over-wifes-racist-carl-lewis-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9336","title":{"rendered":"GOP Lawmaker Quits Over Wife&#8217;s Racist Carl Lewis Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TRENTON, NJ<\/strong> &#8212; A Republican official says a freshman New Jersey lawmaker resigned because his wife sent &#8220;an offensive and racist&#8221; email to the Democratic state Senate campaign of nine-time Olympic gold medalist <strong>Carl Lewis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Burlington County Republican Chairman <strong>Bill Layton<\/strong> acknowledged Monday that <strong>Pat Delany<\/strong> stepped down from the Assembly this month because of his wife&#8217;s missive to <strong>Lewis&#8217;<\/strong> campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Delanys<\/strong> are white. <strong>Lewis<\/strong> is black.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Delany&#8217;s<\/strong> email said, &#8220;Imagine having dark skin and name recognition and the nerve to think that equaled knowing something about politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRENTON, NJ &#8212; A Republican official says a freshman New Jersey lawmaker resigned because his wife sent &#8220;an offensive and racist&#8221; email to the Democratic state Senate campaign of nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis. Burlington County Republican Chairman Bill Layton acknowledged Monday that Pat Delany stepped down from the Assembly this month because of [&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-9336","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\/9336","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=9336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}