DOJ Staffer: Mississippi is Disgusting and Shameful
DOJ Voting Section employee Stephanie Celandine Gyamfi, whose job it is to review state voting laws to make sure they're in compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act, recently made a Facebook post in which she smeared residents of the Magnolia State as being "disgusting and shameful." Via PJ Media, Gyamfi's full posting reads:
“Disgusting and shameful. Hey, that should replace the state motto: ‘Mississippi: Disgusting and Shameful’. . . forget the Magnolia State motto.”
The posting occurred shortly after Mississippi passed a photo voter identification law.
Citing her comments as "unprofessional, unwarranted, irresponsible and misguided," Mississippi's Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann called upon the DOJ to remove Gyamfi from her post. "This employee not only should not review Mississippi's application for voter ID, she shouldn't review anyone's application for voter ID," Hosemann said.
And via The Daily Caller, the DOJ's response to Mississippi:
The Department of Justice is using official resources to publicly defend a career employee in the Civil Rights Division Voting Section who made inflammatory comments about Mississippi voters.
In response to the wave of criticism of Gyamfi’s rhetoric, DOJ’s Christopher Herren said her comments were “personal” in nature He claimed her comments were unrelated to Mississippi’s recent passage of a voter ID law. They were in response, he said, to University of Southern Mississippi students who allegedly chanted “Where’s your green card?” to distract a Puerto Rican basketball player in March.
“[T]he post bore no relationship to voting legislation in Mississippi or the Department of Justice’s Review of such legislation,” Herren wrote in a letter to Hosemann. ”The post does not represent the views of the Department regarding Mississippi.”
Still, the DOJ is spending public resources to insulate Gyamfi from the impact of her “personal” remarks, as department officials continue to offer a public defense.
Don't you love how the Department of Justice defends the staffer's bigoted remarks as "personal" and completely unrepresentative of the Justice Department as a whole, but then goes on to expend taxpayer dollars to protect the employee from consequence?
Disgusting and shameful indeed.
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Aug '10
Re: DOJ Staffer: Mississippi is Disgusting and Shameful
And we thought Janet Reno was a hard act to follow.When did " arrogant " become a mission statement ?And who wouldn't want to have been a fly on the wall when Reno,Holder, and Marc Rich ( avec l'ex) had their conference call ?
Apr '11
Re: DOJ Staffer: Mississippi is Disgusting and Shameful
And these are the same people who tried to drive Rush Limbaugh (who, last I checked, isn't paid with our tax dollars) out of his job for insulting someone?
Nov '10
Re: DOJ Staffer: Mississippi is Disgusting and Shameful
The whole idea of a non-partisan federal bureaucracy under the Civil Service (see, Theodore Roosevelt on the point) is, at this moment in time, ridiculous. What I read seems to confirm that the ranks of the federal agencies are filled with Marxists and other assorted left-wingers and totalitarians.
This lady ought to be relieved of her duties and discharged from her position and the people who supervise her ought to be demoted and reprimanded.
Jul '11
Re: DOJ Staffer: Mississippi is Disgusting and Shameful
Holder still has a grudge vs Mississippi.
Jun '10
Re: DOJ Staffer: Mississippi is Disgusting and Shameful
One would think that, had the alleged Southern Mississippi incident been the cause for Guamfi's post, it would have been mentioned and that, instead of indicting the entire state of Mississippi, she might have criticized the students in question.
This absurd "explanation" doesn't pass the smell test.
One other thought: why is it that a person posts things on Facebook that are available to the world as though it was a confidential private conversation with his or her best friend?
Edited on May 10, 2012 at 2:10amNov '11
Re: DOJ Staffer: Mississippi is Disgusting and Shameful
Uhh, where's Ike Brown? Eric Holder? Disgusting and shameful? Surely not.
How many dead Mexicans is it, again? 300?
Jul '10
Re: DOJ Staffer: Mississippi is Disgusting and Shameful
Stephanie Celandine Gyamfi is a Tea Partyer's dream. She should have permanent employment in whatever department she likes, sharing her thoughts with the world as a kind of permanent, dedicated source of bulletin board quotes for Tea Parties across the country. Throw in a tax payer funded Las Vegas vacation to seal the deal. She won't say no, she's part of Obama's shameless army.
May '10
Re: DOJ Staffer: Mississippi is Disgusting and Shameful
Stephanie Celandine Gyamfi is per this Dailey Caller article is an admitted perjurer.
Report: DOJ employee admits to perjuring herself 3 times, Holder keeps her employed
Seems Holder has her back.