PRO-JOYCE E-MAIL: People from across the country have sent e-mail to Cary Town Council members over the past week to scold them over council member Mike Joyce's resignation.

Joyce became a figure in the nation's immigration debate by declaring that he could not serve on a council that gave $5,000 to a Latin music festival. He complained that the event organizer, Diamante Inc., once honored a woman who later publicly opposed a proposal to crack down on illegal immigration.

More than two dozen of the e-mail messages were form letters distributed by National Vanguard, a white supremacist group.

Joyce, who resigned Wednesday, said he had never heard of National Vanguard. He added that his wife is of Spanish descent.

"I guess this thing went national," he said. "The town of Cary has to realize this is a national issue."

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