A Republican, of course. The district 1 commissioner of Santa Rosa, Florida will probably be issuing one of those “sorry if anyone was offended by my comments” non-apologies sometime today if he hasn’t already. Unsurprisingly, Santa Rosa County is in the northwest corner of Florida, near Pensacola, an area often referred to as “the Redneck Riviera,” presumably filled with people like Sam Parker.
Source: Newsweek
Santa Rosa County Commissioner Sam Parker was asked to resign in a public forum after he was shown in a video using the term “Jew down” to talk about haggling.
Parker was confronted about his comment, which was heard in a snippet of what appeared to be security camera footage, by gun store owner Chris Smith on Monday. He called the use of the term “absolutely ridiculous in 2023.” He also accused the commissioner of asking a local small business to not charge him sales tax if he paid in cash.
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“I’m asking you to resign, Sam,” Smith said on Monday in a video of the public forum posted on Facebook. “Everybody up there saw that it was you doing that, I’ve heard of different situations where you’ve done things like this. It’s pretty unethical. Not only that, you used an ethnic slur when you were up there talking. That’s not how a county commissioner, this county, should act or do business, Sam. I’m asking you if you’re going to resign.”Parker refused to apologize for his comment, saying that the term he used is a well-known adjective and that he can’t be antisemitic because he has an Israeli flag in his office.
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“The fact that I walked in and said ‘Hey, I’m going to have to Jew it down’ is not an ethnic slur. This has nothing to do—I’m not referring to the Jewish community. I used that term as an adjective, as a descriptive word of bargaining them down…That is not an ethnic slur.”
