To Paul Dame, the chair of the Vermont Republican Party, it was appropriate that state Sen. Sam Douglass apologized for participating in a racist, misogynist and antisemitic group chat. But in an interview on Vermont Edition , Dame stopped short of agreeing with Douglass' decision to resign .

"He is committed, as the rest of our Vermont Republicans are, to the issues that he was working for, and that we've been working for, in the state senate," Dame said. "He felt like it was going to be hard for him to be effective moving forward, and that's part of the reason that he resigned."

Douglass' resignation follows a Politico story published on Tuesday about a young Republicans' leaked racist group chat. Douglass was one of about a dozen members in the chat, which drew condemnation fr

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