Audra Shay - need head of Young Repugs

I heard nothing about this story until Bill Maher talked about it on his show, Real Time, tonight. Holy mackeral! I got the following info from a blog. Note that she still won the YR election (and she's 36 years old!)

Audra Shay of New Orleans has been considered a shoo-in for election as president of the Young Republicans. (A 'young' Republican is anyone aged 18-40.)

One of her stands has been that the party should embrace all technology and the internet to reach everyone possible.

Audra got into a discussion on Facebook in which a commenter said:“Obama Bin Lauden [sic] is the new terrorist… Muslim is on there side [sic]… need to take this country back from all of these mad coons… and illegals...”

To which she replied: “You tell em Eric! lol.”

A couple of Republican friends called her out and questioned the exchange. She deleted them from her Facebook friends.

That exchange and some cute noose talk [see below] have given pause to many.

Reported in TheDailyBeast:

In October 2008, in the wake of news that an effigy of Sarah Palin was being hung outside an affluent Hollywood home as an offensive Halloween decoration, Shay replied, returning to the “LOL” style that she employed after the “coons” comment: “What no ‘Obama in a noose? Come on now, its just freedome [sic] of speech, no one in Atlanta would take that wrong! Lol.”

She picked up the thread again the next morning with a clarification and a new insight. “Apparently I could not spell last night. I am wondering if the guys with the Palin noose would care if we had a bunch of homosexuals in a noose.”