A prominent member of Florida’s Republican party has resigned after she an email with racist overtones she sent to a handful of friends was made public. The subject of the message was “Amazing” and in the body of it state committee member Carol Carter lamented, “I’m confused. How can 2,000,000 blacks get into Washington, DC in 1 day in sub zero temps when 200,000 couldn’t get out of New Orleans in 85 degree temps with four days notice?”

When the email was made public the state’s GOP Chairman Jim Geer said he was seriously considering her removal, but Carter apparently beat him to it by handing in her resignation.

“I forwarded a joke to eight people I thought were friends and it went off the cliff,” she said. “I’ve never wanted to do anything to hurt the party so I guess the best thing I can do is resign.”

When the e-mail became public on Thursday, state GOP Chairman Jim Greer said he was considering removing Carter from her committee woman’s post. In that position, she was one of three representatives from the county on the party’s statewide governing board.

“I’m disappointed and frustrated that leaders of our party, regardless of their intent or the circumstances, don’t understand the sensitivity to issues such as this,” Greer said. “The argument they’ll always make is that there’s nothing wrong with it, and there is something wrong with it.”

Carter is the third state GOP official to be involved in a racially themed email scandal in the last 4 months. In the previous incidents, one involved a racist joke, the other, an email that talked about killing then Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.