Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Fires Employee Over Racist Tweets Against Latinos

A series of degrading tweets against Latinos made by the sub-director of finance of Wisconsin's current governor, Scott Walker, generated numerous complaints which culminated with the woman getting fired on December 3rd.

According to EFE, Wisconsin's governor fired Taylor Palmisano, the sub-director of finances for the governor's reelection campaign, after a series of racist tweets the woman published in 2011 were discovered.

Walker, one of the names considered to be the Republican's party Presidential candidate for 2016 chose to fire his employee after receiving numerous complaints over the allegedly degrading language Palmisano used to refer to immigrants.

Univisión reported that on March 9, 2011 Taylor Palmisano wrote a tweet in which she questions the allegedly illegal status of a Mexican worker at the library.

"I'm going to kill this illegal Mexican cleaning the library. Stop hitting the chairs and turn off your Walkman", Taylor wrote.

However, this wasn't the first time the woman used degrading language against the Latino community.

The source reports that in January, 2011, Palmisano wrote another tweet while on a bus that went from Pasadena, California, to Las Vegas, Nevada.

"This bus is my worst nightmare. Nobody speaks English and these people don't know how to control their children", she wrote along with the hashtag "#illegalimmigrants".

Palmisano says she's regretful

After Palmisano's racist tweets came to light, who deleted her Twitter and Facebook accounts, a spokesman for the Governor said that the woman was immediately fired and that Governor Walker condemned her racist comments.

According to EFE, Jonathan Wetze, Walker's spokesman, told the media that "Both the Governor and his campaign condemned these insulting statements, which do not reflect our opinions at all".

On her part, the fired woman was quoted by EFE saying that she feels regretful and that she understands the consequences of "making such unacceptable comments".