A top Democrat in Alabama is calling on a Republican state senator to resign after he was caught on tape calling black patrons at a casino "aborigines."

A transcript of the recording was read Thursday during a gambling corruption trial. State Sen. Scott Beason is a key witness in the trial of nine people accused of buying and selling votes on pro-gambling legislation.

Alabama Democratic Party Chairman Mark Kennedy has called for Beason to resign, but Republican Party Chairman Bill Armistead says Beason is an honorable man who doesn't have a racist bone in his body.

No, of course not.