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Cox-Roush: Carter Resignation Up To State Party

Posted Feb 11, 2009 by William March

Updated Feb 11, 2009 at 02:32 PM

Hillsborough County Republican Party Chairman Debbie Cox-Roush says it’s up to the state Republican Party whether Carol Carter can rescind her resignation from a county party post.

“We don’t have the authority to accept or reject Ms. Carter’s resign,” Cox-Roush said in an interview a few minutes ago. “It’s out of our hands and we are waiting for direction from the Republican Party of Florida.

She added, “It’s going to come down to whatever the rules of the party are.”

Asked whether she would recommend that the state party uphold Carter’s resignation or allow her to rescind it, Cox-Roush said, “I have no authority over it,” but added, “The party still stands on a zero tolerance level for racial insensitivity.”

Carter resigned her post as Hillsborough County state committeewoman last week after it became publicly known that she had forwarded an email joke some considered racially insensitive. Today, she sent state party Chairman Jim Greer a letter seeking to rescind the resignation.

Greer was in Washington today working on the transition team of national Chairman Michael Steele, the national Republican Party’s first black chairman. Greer said he’s consulting the party’s legal counsel on what the party’s position should be, but that his initial view is that Carter’s resignation remains valid.