Nottingham Rep Caught Up in Rap, Black Caucus Flap

A Republican state representative from Nottingham with a history of what some consider to be outrageous comments online is now making national headlines again after posts he made on Facebook this week, according to The Huffington Post.

The commenting started when a legislative colleague of State Rep. Kyle Tasker, R-Nottingham, state Rep. Jordan Ulery, R-Hudson, posted a note on his Facebook account two days ago updating friends about the American Legislative Exchange Council’s outreach to other organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Black Caucus of State Legislators. In the post, Ulery remarked that he supported “talking, discussing and promoting position in which I believe and listening to why I should or should not continue.”

Ulery’s comment elicited another comment from Tasker asking how he would go about joining “the white caucus of state legislators?”

Ulery stated that caucuses were groups of people with similar likes and dislikes and added that her personally longed for “the day of character, not color being again the guiding principle.”

Tasker quipped, “Yea that was kind of my point… so what are the likes/dislikes of the black caucus that precludes white people from joining? I’m fond of rap music…”

A minute later, Tasker posted a video of Nelly’s “Country Grammar,” from YouTube.

Huffington Post reached out to Tasker but he refused comment.

This isn’t the first time Tasker has made national headlines in the online politisphere due to comments that some people have found outrageous or offensive.

Earlier this year, Tasker posted a graphic depicting a sexual act between a man and a woman that stated, “50,000 battered women and I still eat mine plain.” In an interview, he said it wasn’t a joke but he was trying to make a point about an offensive T-shirt graphic he saw.

In 2013, during an exchange about whether black women were fit to be parents, Tasker said he didn’t agree that they were but added that he was commenting about a woman throwing her child against the wall.

Two years ago, Tasker came under fire after dropping one of his two guns on the floor during a legislative hearing.

Zandra Rice Hawkins, the executive director of Granite State Progress, the progressive group in New Hampshire, pounced on the comment, saying that Tasker was proving “time and again that he is unfit” to represent the state.

“His latest racist remark only continues his pattern of blatant racism and sexism, and his decision earlier this year to make a sexually explicit joke about victims of domestic violence shows he is too immature to serve as an elected official,” she noted. “Tasker’s comments have been fodder in the national news more than once, but voters can put an end to this embarrassment by voting him out of office in November.”