The City of Keller, Texas, is a northern suburb of Fort Worth.  It is Tea Party Central in Keller, Texas.

Jo Lynn

Keller school board member Jo Lynn Haussmann is a Tea Party member.  She don’t cotton to foreigners, especially ones … well, you know.

So she took to Facebook over the results from the city council election in neighboring South Lake

Haussmann made the comments on Facebook, saying: “SOUTH LAKE – Do you realize because SO FEW voters took the time and responsibility to VOTE in the municipal elections – YOU NOW HAVE A ‘MUSLIM’ on the City Council!!! What A SHAME!!!!!”

The comments were in reference to Southlake Councilman Shahid Shafi, a surgeon. He, like Haussmann, was elected to his position in May.

Five exclamation points make it over the line, I suspect.  Two or three exclamation points would have made it reasonable.   And she did put Muslim in quotation marks so we’d know that it didn’t have the right to stand next to perfectly acceptable English words.

Jo Lynn has apologized, saying, “I don’t know how I could have been so stupid.”  Well, Honey, I do.  That’s exactly how you talk to your friends.  In your mind, the only stupid thing was putting it on Facebook.

Jo Lynn is not resigning her school board seat.  Dr. Shafi has invited her to lunch.

Thanks to Susan S. for the heads up.