Ron Paul ’90s newsletters rant against blacks, gays
Ron Paul newsletters from 1990s include rants against blacks, gays
Paul’s campaign says the newsletters weren’t written by him
One newsletter calls Martin Luther King Jr. a “pro-Communist philanderer”
Another says 1992 LA riots ended after blacks went to “pick up their welfare checks”
Source: CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A series of newsletters in the name of GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul contain several racist remarks — including one that says order was restored to Los Angeles after the 1992 riots when blacks went “to pick up their welfare checks.”CNN recently obtained the newsletters — written in the 1990s and one from the late 1980s — after a report was published about their existence in the New Republic.
None of the newsletters CNN found says who wrote them, but each was published under Paul’s name between his stints as a U.S. congressman from Texas.
Paul spokesman Jesse Benton told CNN the material was not written by Paul, and that he finds them “abhorrent.” CNN asked the presidential contender for a direct response.
“I have publicly taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name,” Paul said in a written statement.
That’s not good enough, says one political veteran. “These stories may be very old in Ron Paul’s life, but they’re very new to the American public and they deserve to be totally ventilated,” said David Gergen, a CNN senior political analyst. “I must say I don’t think there’s an excuse in politics to have something go out under your name and say, ‘Oh by the way, I didn’t write that.’
“Paul, who is not considered a front-runner, has become an Internet phenomenon in the current race, raising tens of millions of dollars from a devoted online base, many of them young people drawn to his libertarian straight talk.
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Gergen is 100% right. Some total loser just cost Ron Paul a fuck of a headache. For Pauls sake he should be able to come out and name the person who wrote the piece and that he subsequently fired them. I don’t really know much about Ron Paul and I am only now getting into the swing of the current crop of candidates but obviously it looks bad for two reasons: It has his name stamped on the material thus saying he endorses that viewpont. And when he says he has “no idea” who wrote it?
Anyone can read between the lines on a left or right wing attack on character and if Ron Paul had followed through on this back in the day it may have played as a trump card when it mattered the most by showing he had dealt with it decisively.
*******Disclaimer: I am not backing Ron Paul or anyone else at this time for U.S. President.
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