The Republican Party in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina--home to Charlotte--is in full damage control mode after one of its IT volunteers thought it would be a good idea to call the head of the state NAACP a "grand wizard."
The tweet at 8:48 p.m. Sunday under the political party’s @meckgop account included a picture of the Rev. William Barber II, and said, “The Grand Wizard of the #MoralMondaysMorons #NCGOP #TeamPushBack.”
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Barber, the head of the state NAACP, has been the key figure organizing the weekly Monday protests during last year’s legislative session as well as this Saturday’s Mass Moral March which brought an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 to downtown Raleigh.
Brad Overcash, the chairman of the Mecklenburg Republican Party, said he found out about the @meckgop tweet Sunday night. He said he called the IT volunteer who had put it up and demanded an immediate resignation, as well as deletion of the tweet.
The county Twitter feed has gone silent since last night. Overcash says that only a few people will have access to the party's social media feeds in the future.
To his credit, Overcash is falling all over himself to denounce this. In an interview earlier today with WCNC-TV in Charlotte, he says he intends to personally apologize to Barber.
Looks like the same mentality that led delegates to the 2012 GOP convention to throw peanuts at a CNN camerawoman and say that "this is how we feed animals" is very much alive, despite the Repubs' insistence that it's only an isolated case.