Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos just issued a harsh rebuke of Sen. Kevin Parker, saying the Brooklyn Democrat is “not fit to serve” and should be immediately disciplined or censured for calling Sen. John DeFrancisco and his fellow Republicans “white supremacists.”

“Senator Kevin Parker’s latest comments this morning, calling members of the Senate “white supremacists,” are disturbing, disgraceful, disruptive and reprehensible and have no place in this government body or any other,” Skelos said.

“It’s clear that members of the Senate, on both sides of the aisle, are sick and tired of Senator Parker’s repeated angry, and sometimes violent, outbursts.”

“His comments yesterday and today have once again gone over the line of decency.”

Skelos also called on Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson and all his majority members to repudiate Parker’s comments. He threatened the Republicans “will be forced to pursue out own action,” if the Democrats fail to move against Parker.

The minority leader was reacting to an interview Parker gave this morning to DN columnist Errol Louis on WWRL, in which he not only defended his outburst at DeFrancisco during yesterday’s Senate Finance Committee meeting, but also lambasted his fellow Democrat, Sen. Carl Kruger, for failing to reign in the GOP lawmaker himself as committee chairman.

“I don’t know if it was a bad day,”Parker told Louis. “It was par for the course of what we have to deal with in Albany, you know, fighting the forces of evil.”

“You have these, you know, long term white supremacists, you know, Republican senators who’ve been in the majority for a long time they’ve lost the majority. You now have a number of African Americans and Latinos and women and gays running the Senate, and they have a real problem with that, and because of that they do things that are very, very inappropriate.”

Parker accused DeFrancisco of “harassing” and “haranguing” Power Authority nominee and fellow Brooklynite Mark O’Luck, who is the first African American to be appointed to the NYPA Board in its history, according to Parker.

“It’s just unfit for the decorum of the chamber, so at the point that you’re harassing a nominee, particularly a nominee from Brooklyn…I’m really disappointed in Chairman Kruger that he didn’t step up to stop the harassment.”

I just ran into DeFrancisco outside the Senate chamber, and his only comment in response to Parker’s latest choice words was: “Consider the source.”

Parker, who once rather infamously referred to Gov. David Paterson as a “coke-snorting, staff-banging governor,” refused to apologize for either the tone or the content of his remarks both yesterday and this morning and said he would do it all over again if necessary.

“I went to Albany not to make friends,” Parker said. “I went to Albany to represent my district and to bring justice to that place.”

“When people talk about the dysfunction of Albany it is not bills not getting passed it is this kind of thing…because we have a lot of white supremacists that are sitting there and John DeFrancisco is one of them.”

Louis ended the interview by asking Parker about the status of his case in which he was charged with felony assault for allegedly hitting a NY Post photographer in May 2009.

Parker was stripped of his leadership post by then-Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith in the wake of the incident. But he referred to himself this morning as the Democratic whip of the Senate.

I checked with Senate Democratic spokesman Austin Shafran, who confirmed that Parker’s leadership post – and the $22,000 lulu that comes with it – have since been reinstated despite the fact that the senator has not yet been cleared of the charges against him.

Parker replied that he’s still waiting for a suitable deal with the DA, which he says hasn’t been forthcoming because the veteran prosecutor is too afraid of the tabloid newspaper to let him off the hook.

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