Harris County (think Houston) elected a total nincompoop as their county Republican Party Chairman.  He’s a flat racist.

The incoming chair, Keith Nielsen, had faced calls to give up the position last month after sharing a Facebook post juxtaposing a Martin Luther King Jr. quote with a banana.

Ya know, Republicans are supposed to be rich.  You’d think this guy could hire someone to come up with something racist that he could post without resorting to such a beat-up, overused, battered trope.

In June, he announced that he was going to resign before taking office in August, but what with racism becoming so popular lately among Republican men, he changed his mind.

He attended a precinct chair meeting and kinda shocked everybody —

“He announced that he would be taking office on Aug. 3,” said Nancy Scott, a precinct chair who was in attendance.

They elected him, they get to keep him. Besides, he wears a cross everywhere he goes so he’s a racist for Jesus and that makes it okay.

Way to go, Harris County.