If you're looking for someone who's both a coward and a weasel, look no further than Miami-Dade School Board member Robert Ingram. Not only did he fail to stand up for his convictions when he voted to ban the controversial book "Vamos a Cuba," citing fear of getting his car blown up, but he now refuses to acknowledge that the only group he could have possibly been referring to was Cuban exiles:
In the moments before voting to remove a controversial children's book from school libraries, Miami-Dade School Board member Robert Ingram complained of massive intimidation that left him feeling that his children and grandchildren could be in danger and that fellow board members ``might find a bomb under their automobiles.''
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He justified the car-bomb comment by saying Miami is ''a violent town -- statistics show that,'' although the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms said there have been only a handful of car bombings in South Florida since the early 1990s.Ingram insisted he was not speaking about Cubans or the Cuban-American community, though many of his comments may have left that impression.
''Heck, no,'' he said Friday. ``I was not reducing my commentary to any ethnic group.''
Cuban exiles were the driving force behind the effort to remove Vamos a Cuba from the schools, saying the book's inaccuracies and omissions failed to give a true picture of life under Fidel Castro.
He doesn't vote his conscience. He doesn't stand behind his words. Too bad his votes help determine the future of the fourth largest school district in the country -- he's really not up to the job. Heck, no.
Posted by floridacracker at June 24, 2006 02:39 PM