The Washington Post reports this morning that Senator George F. Allen has declined to accept the Thurgood Marshall Community Service Award, which had been offered to him by the New York City based Thurgood Marshall Scholarship fund.
Allen spokesman John Reid said:
The foundation told the senator that they've been catching a lot of static from members and some of their donors, and before it spins into a week of controversy, we just decided to decline it.
The Post also reports that:
Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund donors had threatened to withhold contributions if Sen. George Allen, a Republican seeking re-election this fall, received the fund's Community Leadership Award.
and
Allen's decision came almost three weeks after he singled out a Virginia-born college student of Indian descent in a mostly white crowd at a campaign rally and twice applied the name "Macaca" to him.
Allen himself is quoted as saying:
I regret that there are those who would put their personal or political dislike of me ahead of the needs of deserving students and I do not want to be the cause of any controversy which could in any way harm the efforts to help these young people.
Ahem. Senator G. Felix Allen, I say to you, if you want to see the source of the "controversy" here, you need look no further than your bathroom mirror. There you will see the face of a loose-lipped fool whose only claim to fame at this point is his colossal fecklessness in convincing the people of his fitness for the public trust.
Attention kossacks: You, the members of this community have, without doubt, facilitated this little bit of justice to be wrought. It is your attention to the travesty of associating the name of George Felix Allen, notorius race-baiter, with that of Justice Thurgood Marshall, a man of unreproachable dignity and goodness, and your action in calling G. Felix Allen out to those he whould use to polish his spotted resume, that has made said G. Felix retreat into the hovel of shame that is his bloated ego. Congratulations and thank you.
UPDATE: To see how this was done, here's the link to the diary posted yesterday that got the ball rolling. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/8/31/9386/83078
UPDATE 2: I see that Templar diaried this denoument last night. Great post and comments in there. Check it out.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/8/31/213217/829