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TexasTowelie

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Sat Mar 6, 2021, 11:22 PM Mar 2021

Norton Dismisses Commissioner For Calling a Judicial Candidate a 'Slick Jew'

Johnnie Scott Rice stepped down from Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton‘s judicial nomination commission at the congresswoman’s request after referring to one candidate as a “slick Jew,” a person familiar with the group’s deliberations tells LL.

Rice, 80, apologized to members of the commission Tuesday in an email announcing her resignation.

“I am writing to apologize to each and everyone of you for my actions in our meeting last evening please forgive me for the statement made in reference to one of the candidates seeking the position we are interviewing for, it was an ugly out burst from a long pass encounter with the candidate,” Rice wrote.

“So again please forgive me for my actions I spoke with Ms. Norton and accepted her request that I step down from the commission,” she continued. “May you all continue to do the good work of servings the residents of the city I was born and raise in.”

Read more: https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/510264/judicial-nomination-commissioner-calls-candidate-a-slick-jew-resigns/

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Norton Dismisses Commissioner For Calling a Judicial Candidate a 'Slick Jew' (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2021 OP
I guess it's good when people apologize for their behavior but I think it's better to have abqtommy Mar 2021 #1

abqtommy

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1. I guess it's good when people apologize for their behavior but I think it's better to have
Sun Mar 7, 2021, 09:24 AM
Mar 2021

people who don't have to apologize to be taking part in running things.

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