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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 05:12 PM
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Rudy's New SC Chair Has History Of "Racially Charged" Remarks
How original Rudy - appoint the daddy of the miscreant doing coke!

Today, Rudy's campaign announced that Ravenel's father, Arthur Ravenel, Jr., would serve as the state's campaign co-chair. But now Rudy isn't faring a heck of a lot better with Ravenel the Elder, either.

It turns out that Ravenel pere has a history of making, shall we say, racially charged remarks. The Politicker's Jason Horowitz has the goods:

On October 18, 2006 The Post and Courier of Charleston, SC wrote " Arthur Ravenel Jr., who is running for an East Cooper seat on the board, caught flack 16 years ago when he was in Congress and made a comment about white committee chairmen who operated on 'black time,' which he said meant fashionably late."

As recently as January 2000, the Post and Courier reported in an article headlined "Ravenel stepped outside 'civility,'" that Ravenel called the NAACP the "National Association For Retarded People."

When asked about the comment in the story, Ravenel said that he misspoke. "It was a slip of the tongue. I have never said the NAACP was retarded," he told the Post and Courier. "I made a rhetorical slip, and they want to lynch me for it."

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/jun/25/rudys_new_sc_chair_has_history_of_racially_charged_remarks

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bigdarryl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 05:19 PM
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1. Not surprising to me he's never been a friend of we african americans
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-25-07 05:22 PM
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2. The whole Ravenel family is just plain nuts.
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