Jennifer Delany, the wife of recently resigned New Jersey state Assemblyman Pat Delany, may or may not be a racist. But Bill Layton, the Republican Party chairman for Burlington County, N.J., thinks she is. “Former Assemblyman Pat Delany’s wife inexplicably sent an offensive and racist email in response to a routine email from Carl Lewis’ campaign,” Layton said, according to an Associated Press news story about the incident. “Her actions were inexcusable.”

Here, according to the story, is what Jennifer Delany said. “Imagine having dark skin and name recognition and the nerve to think that equaled knowing something about politics.”