One day after Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott sparked a national controversy by referring to Democratic presidential candidate as Barack Hussein Obama, the federal government is investigating a complaint about his remark and members of the local NAACP have called for an apology, saying Scott's action was racist. Meanwhile, Scott’s office has been inundated with more than 600 calls from people r More.. egistering their support or opposition to what he said, and a record of more than 1,000 posts had been made to the developing story on news-press.com Tuesday night. Opponents claim he was taking a swipe at Obama by attempting to falsely link him to Muslim terrorist ties. Scott said he had no ulterior motive for his choice of words. Less..