Month-Long Suspension Ordered In Obama E-Mail Flap
December 14, 2010 4:13 PM BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana State Senate employee has been formally reprimanded and suspended for a month without pay because she sent an e-mail to hundreds of government workers showing President Barack Obama as white.
Senate President Joel Chaisson announced the punishment Tuesday for
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Crain-Waldrop can return to work Jan. 3 and must send a written apology to Senate and House staff and lawmakers. She also will have to attend diversity training.
Chaisson called the e-mail, which Crain-Waldrop sent Nov. 30, “highly inappropriate.”
Crain-Waldrop sent a message that included a doctored photo of Obama with light skin and says, “Do you like him any better now? No? Me neither ….. Then you’re not a racist.”
Crain-Waldrop said she sent the message to the Capitol e-mail post office box by mistake.
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