South Carolina GOPer Who Made Racist Joke Previously Served On…Diversity Council | Talking Points Memo

Remember Rusty DePass, the South Carolina Republican activist and former state elections director who apologized yesterday after he joked on Facebook that an escaped gorilla from a local zoo was an ancestor of Michelle Obama? It turns out that he recently had another important job: Promoting racial diversity in the city of Columbia.


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