A Republican elected official in Virginia resigned over the weekend after it was revealed he called for President Joe Biden's Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to be lynched for his efforts to root white supremacy out of the military.
His own local GOP demanded his ouster over a February 17 Facebook post attacking Austin, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and 3-star general Russel Honore in which he called Austin and Honore the n-word.
David Dietrich, a member of the city of Hampton's electoral board, agreed to step down from his role after Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin called for his removal.
Youngkin's spokesperson Macaulay Porter posted the update to Twitter on April 9.
'As governor, I serve all Virginians. I won’t accept racism in our Commonwealth or our party,' the GOP Virginia governor said that day.
'The abhorrent words of a Hampton Roads official are beyond unacceptable and have no place in Virginia. It’s time to resign.'
Dietrich had originally refused to resign when asked to do so by the Republican Party of Hampton, the group wrote on Facebook days earlier.
'In light of Mr. Dietrich’s refusal to resign, the Hampton City Republican Party has asked the chief judge of the Hampton Circuit Court, the appointing authority for all electoral board members, to remove Mr. Dietrich from his position,' the post read.
David Dietrich's name no longer appears on the Hampton Electoral Board's website
Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin called on Dietrich to resign after his racist comments about the Democratic White House's Defense Secretary emerged
It called his attacks on Austin and the other officials as 'abhorrent and unacceptable racist language that has no place in our Party or our Commonwealth.'
'The Hampton City Republican Party unequivocally condemns all forms of racism and bigotry, and specifically condemns the language employed by Mr. Dietrich,' the organization wrote.
The hate-fueled post accuses Austin of 'standing down the military to ferret out "white
