Obama Boots Delegate for Likening Tree-Climbing Children to Monkeys

The Obama campaign has persuaded a delegate to step down after she was fined $75 for telling her neighbor's tree-climbing black children "to quit playing in the tree like monkeys".

Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski, who says she also calls her own grandchildren monkeys, insists that she didn't mean anything racially derogatory and that she was merely concerned that the children might fall from the tree and get hurt.