How Long Will Sharron Angle Stand By Mark Williams and His Racist Rant?

Angle Continues to Allow Williams, Tea Party Express to Raise Funds for Her Senate Campaign

Yesterday, Nevada Democrats called on Sharron Angle to denounce the racist writings of Tea Party Express leader and spokesman Mark Williams, who stood on stage by Angle when the Express gave the GOP Senate candidate its endorsement earlier this year.

But it was dollars, not distance, that Angle put between herself and the organization, which has been expelled from the national Tea Party Federation for refusing to rebuke Williams for a supposedly satirical racist screed addressed to President Abraham Lincoln that used the word “colored” repeatedly, attacked the NAACP as a “racist” organization and said the people the NAACP represent “strive for” welfare and “don’t cotton to that whole emancipation thing.”

This is the same man who said called Sharron Angle “the real deal.”

An hour after Nevada Democrats called on Angle to disavow the Express and spokesman Mark Williams, who stepped down as chairman of the group over the weekend, the Express sent out a fundraising email on Angle’s behalf asking its membership to donate $500 or more to “help us get on the airwaves with our pro-Angle TV ads.”

No wonder Angle told Williams that he was “instrumental” to her fundraising mission while the Express leader was filling in for conservative talker Heidi Harris. The Tea Party Express has also given Angle $5,000 and spent tens of thousands of dollars running television ads on her behalf.

Williams has said the Tea Party Express has “spent more in the campaign to defeat Harry Reid than just about any other group out there in this election cycle” – and apparently that won’t change just because the Express has been expelled by its allied umbrella group for its refusal to disavow Williams’ racist rant.

A Federation spokeswoman called Williams’ post “clearly offensive.”

Meanwhile, Tea Party Express organizer Joe “The Plumber” Wierzbicki hit back, essentially calling Federation members dorks for denouncing racism and its actions “absurd… since their conduct is alien to our membership,” and accused them of playing “silly power games.” Such as trying to rid the Tea Party movement of systemic racism.

Tea Party Express members “prefer a focus… (on) electing tea party conservatives to offices of import in these 2010 elections,” while Tea Party Federation members “spend a bit too much time watching science fiction movies and cartoons,” according to “Joe The Plumber”.

He then goes on to accuse the NAACP of racism.

“For a spokesman to say that Angle ‘readily condemns’ the use of racist language on ‘somebody’s’ blog isn’t nearly enough. If Angle so readily condemns racist language, she should come out and denounce Mark Williams specifically, rebuke him for his virulently racist writings and sever ties with the Tea Party Express, a group that was willing to divorce itself from the national Tea Party movement to stand in support of Williams’ racist comments,” said Phoebe Sweet, communications director for the Nevada State Democratic Party. “But instead, Angle has allowed the Express to continue to raise money from its members for her Senate campaign. That’s as good as an endorsement of Williams’ disgusting writings, and more evidence that Sharron Angle is extreme and out of the mainstream.”