In the wake of South Florida Senator Frank Artiles' use of hateful language (again) over cocktails at the Governors Club in Tallahassee Monday night, which made headlines the following evening, there's a growing clamor for his resignation.

Artiles, a Latino Republican from Hialeah, allegedly referred to fellow members of his party using the N-word (while Democratic African American Sen. Perry Thurston was at the table, mind you) and calling Democratic State Sen. Audrey Gibson (D-Jacksonville), who's also African American, a "bitch," a "fucking asshole" and a "girl" to her face.

On Wednesday morning Artiles took to the Senate floor to apologize for his remarks some 12 hours after his first half-assed apology. He tried to explain away his use of the racial and sexist slurs (he meant it colloquially, pronounced it with an a-sound instead of an -er sound, people in the diverse community of Hialeah "share" their "vernacular" with one another, as if any of that matters). It's even rumored that Artiles had to goaded into making the apology.

In the wake of the incident, Senate President Joe Negron removed him from a committee chairmanship. 

But critics would like to see the likes of Artiles suffer actual consequences for once.

“To simply say 'I’m sorry,' might work if this were the first affront, but it’s not. He’s attacked Muslims with the same fervor he’s now demeaning African Americans, and it cannot stand," Senate Minority Leader Oscar Baynon II in a written statement. “Simply dismissing these charges Senator Artiles has admitted to as a passing lapse, or his temper getting the better of him, or a product of his childhood town, doesn’t cut it. Neither does his 'I’m sorry' when the 'I’m sorrys' continue to multiply. Especially when the latest long-awaited apology was compelled."

If the past is any indication, it would be a surprise if Artiles suffers any consequences beyond his current media shellacking.

As Braynon alluded to in his comments, Artiles was secretly taped using a racial slur to describe Muslims in 2014.

He also sponsored Florida's own transgender bathroom bill into the Florida House in 2015 while a State Rep., which would have made Florida, not North Carolina, a laughingstock and cost the state untold jobs.

Also, that same year, he (allegedly) punched a kid at a bar in Tallahassee.

Did he suffer consequences, political or otherwise from any of those things?

Of course not, silly!

In fact, he has since advanced in his career.

In the time since the Muslim/trans/bro-hate incidents occurred, he has been elected to the state senate, which is essentially a promotion.

That seems to happen all the time. The Artiles fiasco(s) reminds us of the case of one Matt Gaetz who, while in the state house in 2015, sent out a tweet implying two African American state senators were basically illiterate. CL gave one of those senators, former Sen. from Tampa Arthenia Joyner, a Best of the Bay award for how she handled the racist tweet.

Did Gaetz, a Panhandle Republican who probably wouldn't be in politics if his dad hadn't been a powerful state senator, suffer any consequences?

Of course not, silly!

He's a U.S. Congressman now.

Throw in Trumpism, in which the already-entitled feel even more entitled, and you better believe Artiles' lil' mistakes are going to be forgotten in a week. Hell, unless he goes full Bill O'Reilly, he could be our next governor.

This article appears in Apr 13-20, 2017.