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In a now-deleted status update that was posted following the election of Donald Trump, a Clay County, West Virginia, official hopped on Facebook to simultaneously express her excitement and use racist rhetoric to describe First Lady Michelle Obama. “It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified first lady in the White House,” Pamela Ramsey Taylor wrote. “I’m tired of seeing an ape in heels.”

Taylor is the director of the Clay County Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization that receives both state and federal funding. Her Facebook message garnered a response from the city of Clay’s mayor, Beverly Whaling: “Just made my day Pam.”

Local station WSAZ first reported on the exchange yesterday (November 14). Over the weekend, a petition was created to remove both Taylor and Whaling from their posts. This morning, the television station reported that, per workers at the nonprofit, Taylor has been removed from her position. But that doesn’t seem to mean that she is now out of a job. Per WSAZ:

But when asked if she still has a job at Clay County Development Corporation, they said “all we can comment on is that she has been removed from her position.” [MORE]