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Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski (Photo Courtesy of: Daily Herald)

A Barack Obama supporter has given up her role as a pledged delegate after the campaign found “unacceptable” her description of her neighbor’s children as “monkeys,” which she says she called them because they were climbing in trees.

Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski, an a Hispanic trustee for the Village of Carpentersville, Ill., was accused of racism following the interaction with her African-American neighbors.

“Given the incident, she is stepping down and will be replaced as delegate,” Ben Labolt, a spokesman for the Obama campaign told FOXNews.com, calling Sliwinski’s remarks “unacceptable.”

The campaign discussed the incident with Ramirez-Sliwinski, who decided to step aside as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in August, Labolt said.

Police issued a $75 citation for disorderly conduct on Saturday to Ramirez-Sliwinski , Carpentersville Police Cmdr. Michael Kilbourne told FOXNews.com.

“This is like a parking ticket,” Kilbourne said. “She was not arrested, she was not fingerprinted.”

Police officers were dispatched to Sparrow Road for a neighbor dispute, Kilbourne said.

Ramirez-Sliwinski told the kids to stop playing in her next-door neighbor’s tree because she was worried they would fall out of the tree and hurt themselves, Kilbourne said.

Dametta Stewart, a parent of one of the kids, alleges that Ramirez-Sliwinski came outside and told the kids to “quit playing in the tree like monkeys,” according to the police report. Stewart told police she was upset and felt the comment was racist since her children are African-American, Kilbourne said.

Ramirez-Sliwinski told officers that she didn’t believe the comment was racist and that she calls her own grandkids monkeys.

Ramirez-Sliwinski told the local Daily Herald, based in Arlington Heights, Ill., that her remarks were not racist despite ill feelings between the neighbors.

“Technically, I don’t consider it a mistake because that’s not what I meant,” Ramirez-Sliwinski told the newspaper. “They’re children. They’re climbing in a tree. What would you think?”

Ramirez-Sliwinski said she likely won’t run for re-election as a trustee after her term expires in April 2009

Dems are doin it to themselves . . .

I dunno, my mom used to rhyme:

I went to the doctor,

And the doctor said,

"No more monkeys

Jumping on that bed."

This woman clearly did not mean her remarks in a racist sense. She has an Obama yard sign. She's an Obama delegate.

Those shoulder-chips are getting bigger and more imbalanced. And this time, Obama's not trying to shrink them.

to go to a place such as the Monkey House in the Franklin Park Zoo in the late 1930s...Boston, Ma home of the Kennedy/Kerry Political Machine.

Countless dozens ( I know, as kids we tried counting them) of monkeys of all sizes, shapes and colors swung hand of over hand, leg over hand, hand over leg as they moved around a giant cage full of artificial and real treas.

Monkeys trying to be at home in a man made habitat constantly emulated by childred playing Tarzan of the Apes as they attempted to swing ape-like, monkey-like, Tarzan-like from branch to branch in the neighbor's trees.

A pox on Policital Correctness.

I have some terrific Jewish jokes, and some very funny Polish jokes. And have you heard the one about Pat and Mike and the Priest sitting in the Pub...