Black Political Zone

Florida Republican state representative, Ralph Arza, is being asked to step down by both Republicans and Democrats after he left an explicit voicemail with racial epithets on another legislator's answering machine. The Miami Herald reports:

The two calls from Azra began a political firestorm -- not the first for the Hialeah Republican -- that now consumes the leadership of Florida's GOP, and threatens to split the state House of Representatives along partisan lines.

Florida's Democrats, who hold only one-third of the seats in the state House, said in a tart resolution Wednesday they will refuse to sit in the same chamber as Arza, who has long been accused of acting like a foul-mouthed bully.

Read more and listen to the two voicemails here.