The executive director of the North Dakota Republican Party has resigned a week into the job after a media outlet publicized some of his online comments. Many of Dave Roetman's posts and replies were about politics, but others were demeaning toward women and dismissive of concerns raised by Black people about racism.
A sign stands outside the Ronald Reagan Republican Center in Bismarck, N.D., Friday, June 16, 2023. Dave Roetman resigned as the North Dakota Republican Party’s executive director on Tuesday, Oct. 31, after a media outlet publicized his social media posts making fun of women and commenting on Black people. State Party Chair Sandi Sanford said she was “very disappointed” in the posts which she said weren’t found before Roetman was hired earlier this month. BISMARCK, N.D.
Many of the posts and replies were about political issues. But they also included crass comments, such as replying “she seems nice” to several posts of women in revealing clothing, and responding unfavorably to a woman in a plus-sized swimsuit. In another reply, he speculated about whether women should be addressed as “broads” or “dames,” adding that debates about gender and language are why “men are distancing themselves from women professionally.
Roetman told The Associated Press on Monday that “I think that recent events have been a distraction for the party, and I just don’t want it to be a distraction. We need to have a strong party, and I’m just going to take a different path here.”
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