New state Democratic Party Chairwoman Martha Laning was incredibly excited to see President Barack Obama earlier this year with Rep. David Bowen, an African-American lawmaker from Milwaukee.
Just how excited?
A secretly recorded video shows Laning telling an all-white group of fellow Dems about the experience, using her version of black dialect to impersonate Bowen, the party’s vice chairman, while adding that she now wants to go with a whole group of blacks to a similar event in the future.
“David is a wonderful black young man, and he’s sitting next to me,” Laning said in describing the scene at Obama’s July talk in La Crosse on the 35-second video clip. “My enjoyment of that speech, like, doubled because he’s like, ‘Yeah, you talk it — yeah, you just say it.’ He’s (doing that) the whole time.
“The two of us are popping up and cheering,” said Laning, a Sheboygan Dem. “I want to go with an entire group of black people to one of these (events).”
