State Rep. Jason Spencer Sends Speaker Ralston His Resignation
State Representative Jason Spencer, the Woodbine Republican who made national headlines this week for appearing on SHOwtime’s “Who is America?” has resigned from his state house seat.
I saw a copy of the resignation email late Tuesday night after it was sent to Speaker of the House David Ralston at 11:18 P.M. It reads as follows:
“Speaker Ralston,
This email/letter is to serve as an official resignation notice to your office that I will be resigning my post effective July 31, 2018.
Rep. Jason Spencer.”
Spencer initially said he would not resign from the seat after Speaker David Ralston, Governor Deal and others called for him to step down on Monday.
The show, which aired Sunday night, depicted Spencer dropping his pants to expose his buttocks, yelling profanities, and shouting racial slurs. At the end of the segment in a “Message to Terrorists,” Spencer took to a monologue where he tells “sand n*****s” that “we’re tired of you coming to America” and “trying to threaten us.”
Spencer then threatened to cut off the genitalia of the Middle Easterners, while simulating doing such on a mannequin, before stuffing the mock genitalia in the mouth of the mannequin.
Spencer was defeated in his May primary election and was set to vacate office in January.
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I hope Stacey has the ads set to launch, he naked behind is the face of Kemp’s campaign! Bye, bye Jake, hello Jason.
That is quite the stretch. No sure how you think they will make Spencer the face of the Kemp Campaign.
Both are “crazy.” Spencer was a long time supporter of Kemp. His endorsement of Kemp was accepted, included on campaign literature and on Kemps website despite Spencer’s controversial history.
Is the use of Pelosi /Clinton against Abrams a stretch? This guy is a lot closer to Georgia than either and his butt is Kemp’s face. The face of “crazy.”
My point is: Kemp ran as the “crazy” Trump conservative who would say or do anything to “own the libs”. He’s the one pointing a shot gun at a teenager. He’s the one with big truck threatening to assult black and brown people. Right now Jason is the face of “crazy” nationally and Kemp must own him.
Democrats must make the case that crazy doesn’t attract Amazon or keep Delta or encourage the film industry. Crazy gets you Trump and Spencer and middle doesnt do crazy which is why Hillary won 3 million more votes than Trump.
Dems may have to talk about stabilizing the crazy, and bringing back actual support (not bail-out money) to the ag community, but outside of ATL, dunno if Amazon or Delta catches on. And ATL will be generally reliably Dem already. So she needs to focus on rural communities a lot.
True, true. Cobb, Forsyth, Gwinnett all have strong growing Dem populations. Plus Columbus, Savannah, etc.
Athens-Clarke will be interesting. If I were a gambling man, I’d put money on Kemp losing there.
Stacey has to define Kemp because he’s going to try to define her. He’s already given her an opening with his routine in the primary. Why not exploit it?
Nice to see that the voters in his district had already imposed “term limits” on him.
This guy is obviously a MoonBat! Just crazy. No other explanation. Glad he’ll be gone!
Sacha Baron Cohen has a talent, if it can be called that, for getting people to do stupid things on camera. Not that stupid wasn’t already there, he just catalyses it.
One of my takeaways is that when someone reveals just a hint of their racism- or really probly any personality trait- that there is a deep well of it that remains unexposed but very real and very much a driver of their policies. So when Spencer made the one controversial post on Facebook, that was the hint. What we normally see are just tips of icebergs, and we should assume that those tips represent much more.
Btw, has he even apologized yet, or just made excuses?
Yeah, Cohen seems to have a nose for it.