Lincoln Diaz-Balart volunteer fired for telling voter Obama is a Muslim. (Florida)

[seafan]

Lincoln Diaz-Balart volunteer booted over lie

BY BETH REINHARD AND LESLEY CLARK
October 15, 2008

A volunteer with Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart's campaign was dismissed Monday after warning a Miami voter not to vote for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama because ``he's a Muslim.''

The assertion came in a phone call to Maria Levrant who said she was shocked by the ``flagrant lie.''

Obama, who was born in Hawaii to parents who did not practice any religion, is Christian. But the rumor he is Muslim has swirled on the Internet for months. The Obama campaign has even set up a website to refute the claim.

Levrant, an aide to Miami-Dade Commissioner Katy Sorenson, said she was cleaning her house Monday when a volunteer from Diaz-Balart's campaign called, asking if she was supporting the Republican congressman along with Republican presidential nominee John McCain.
When Levrant told the woman she was undecided, she said the volunteer told her ''this country is in really terrible trouble'' and that ``the other one, he's a Muslim.''

Levrant, a Democrat, said she told the volunteer it wasn't true; the volunteer referred her to ``all those years living in other countries.''

Obama lived in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country, as a child.

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A spokesman for Diaz-Balart said the congressman had expressed his regret to Levrant and dismissed the volunteer.

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Miami's Terrible Trio: Lincoln Diaz-Balart, brother Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen must be removed in 3 weeks.

[AspenRose]

1. "...the OTHER ONE?"

*sigh*

At least Diaz-Balart did the right thing

[No Elephants]

2. As a child. For four years, two or three of which he attended Catholic school. Lord, how I hate

these liars. Even when they "correct" something, they slant.