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By Jason Hancock and Bryan Lowry The Kansas City Star (TNS)

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal was adamant Friday that she isnt resigning over a Facebook post calling for President Donald Trumps assassination.

Chappelle-Nadal, a University City Democrat, has faced calls by Missouris top Democrats and Republicans demanding she resign from the legislature over a comment she posted on her personal Facebook Thursday: I hope Trump is assassinated.

Among those calling for her resignation were the chairman of the Missouri Democratic Party and U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill.

Chappelle-Nadal deleted the comment and said posting it was a mistake. She said she posted the comment out of frustration with Trumps statements about recent events in Charlottesville, Va., where an alleged white supremacist drove his car into a crowd near the citys downtown mall, killing a 32-year-old woman.

But in a series of tweets following the calls from her fellow Democrats to resign, she struck a defiant tone.

I am not resigning, she said. When (people of color) are respected by this (White House) & they are willing to do real work, Ill sit down with them. People are traumatized!

She then retweeted statements of support along with racist comments she began receiving after news broke about her Facebook post. One person sent her a message on Twitter that was just the N-word over and over again from a Twitter account called KillMaria69.

She also tweeted a link to I Stand With Maria website.

Out of anger and frustration, I said something that could have been reframed, she said on the website. And I refuse to shy away from the hypocrisy and chaos our country is enduring under Trump.

But the calls for her resignation grew louder Friday. Joining the chorus late Thursday was House Minority Leader Gail McCann Beatty, a Kansas City Democrat and the highest-ranking black lawmaker in Missouri.

Suggestions of violence have no place in our political discourse, and an elected official who expresses hope for someones murder has forfeited the right to hold office, McCann Beatty said. Given state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadals repugnant social media post suggesting the president should be assassinated, she must resign.

Both Senate President Ron Richard, a Joplin Republican, and Senate Majority Leader Mike Kehoe, a Jefferson City Republican, echoed the call for resignation.

In a time when we should be calling for peace, promoting violence of any kind is unacceptable, and Im asking her to resign from her position, Kehoe said.

Talking with reporters Friday, McCaskill said leaders of the Democratic Party have spoken in one voice against Chappelle-Nadals comments.

Theres nothing we can do to force her to resign, but we can continue to reject that kind of advocation of violence, McCaskill said. Thats the problem we have now.

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