North Carolina GOP precinct chair resigns per Republican party’s request

Don Yelton received a lot of attention for the racially prejudiced comments he made on “The Daily Show,” and for the distasteful views of the new voter ID laws, which he said will “kick the Democrats in the butt.” Yelton was the GOP precinct chair of Buncombe County in North Carolina, but after his rude remarks, the Republican Party asked him to resign.

In an interview on the Asheville radio station WWNC on Thursday, Yelton said: “I resign my position as precinct chair. Gladly. I’ll give it up. To heck with it, I don’t want to be part of a group that is that mealy-mouthed and that gutless.”

Yelton participated in “The Daily Show’s” segment on the voter ID laws in North Carolina, and while the show is known for its satire, his comments did not sit right with viewers. “The law is going to kick the Democrats in the butt,” Yelton said. “If it hurts a bunch of college kids too lazy to get up off their bohonkas and go get a photo ID, so be it. If it hurts the whites, so be it…If it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it.”

North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Claude Pope released a statement shortly after Wednesday night’s segment: “The North Carolina Republican Party finds the comments made by Mr. Yelton to be completely inappropriate and highly offensive…[Yelton] does not speak for either the Buncombe County Republican Party or the North Carolina Republican Party.”