Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.09.08 | 4:03 PM ET
The economic downturn has hit Hawaii hard, but that’s not all. Hawaii tourism chief Rex Johnson resigned yesterday after “exchanging racist and sexist jokes by e-mail on his state computer,” according to the Honolulu Advertiser.
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Ling 10.10.08 | 9:28 AM ET
Well, to be fair, since they don’t have any tourists, what’s a tourism chief supposed to do with all that spare time except use the internet for some lewdity? :)