I have to drive through LaMarque on my way to Galveston.  In the future, I won’t drink the water or breathe the air.

Connie Trube, a two-term La Marque City Council member, made the comments while discussing the financial and academic troubles in the La Marque Independent School District with the husband of a political adversary, reported KPRC-TV.

“It’s not going to get any better until you get those blacks off the school board,” Trube says on the recording. “She really turned black. She got on the school board with the rest of the blacks and they all just ganged up and that’s why the school system has gone to hell.”

And then, she refused to apologize.  Even though she has been censured by city council, she ain’t backing down.

“What is on the tape is nothing more than me stating my honest opinion, and I don’t back down from that,” Trube said. “I never denied what was on the tape.”

But, of course, we’re being intolerant of her intolerance if we ask her to be tolerant.

Thanks to Chickenbonewill for the heads up.