I have always felt that the truly vile behavior of many GOP members were inspired by and encouraged from the top down. Bush and his cronies made torture ok, Cheney and his office made the war profiteering and outing of a CIA operative ok, etc.
And now Palin during her racist rally performances has seemingly set the tone at the Alaska government offices that made it ok to use the government-tax-payer-paid-for, email system to send around racist emails.
By RACHEL D'ORO , Associated Press, ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska officials are investigating racist jokes about President-elect Barack Obama that have been circulating on state government e-mail accounts.
One of the five e-mails obtained by The Associated Press asks about the outcome of the Democrat's victory after all the time and money invested and concludes: "Another black family living in government housing!"
State officials were unaware of the e-mails until asked about them by the AP.
Three of the racist messages were confirmed by the state's information technology division after an electronic search of the government's e-mail system, Administration Commissioner Annette Kreitzer said Wednesday.
"It's embarrassing to the state," she said.
Kreitzer said she alerted the office of Gov. Sarah Palin — the failed Republican vice presidential candidate — about the e-mails.
Bill McAllister, Palin's spokesman, said in an e-mail that the matter concerned individual actions taken by a handful of state employees among thousands.
A serious housecleaning is in order and a message that the taxpayers don't support and won't pay for employees that participate in this kind of crap. From your own email- whatever-- freedom of speech is important to me. But not from a government office. The people who forwarded this on need to be fined and get at least a written warning- with the intent of suspension if this behavior continues.
