New School Board member admits creating race-baiting Web site

Chris Stewart, who on Tuesday won election to the Minneapolis School Board, yesterday admitted that he and some friends created a replica Tammy Lee for Congress Web site laden with racial epithets to lampoon Fifth District Congressman Martin Sabo’s support for Lee, the Independence Party candidate.

Stewart, who is black and is considered a rising star in the DFL Party, said the Web site was “an inside blogger joke that was never meant to be made public.