South Carolina NAACP Head Blasts Rudy For Keeping Ravenel

In an interview with Election Central, Dwight James, executive director of the South Carolina NAACP, tore into Rudy for keepiing Ravanel.

"It doesn't speak well of the Giuliani campaign, specifically to African-Americans," James told Election Central. He later added, "It should give thoughtful voters much pause before they would embrace a campaign that would have Senator Ravenel as a high-ranking official."

James said that Rudy's willingness to appoint someone who's an avowed worshiper of the Confederate Flag, and has a history of denigrating blacks, suggested that the campaign actually was trying to appeal to the bigotted element within South Carolina's conservative voters, many of whom are out of sync with Rudy on social issues.

"Of course if that's the kind of message that the Giuliani campaign wants to send," James warned, "then they're certainly providing one that's clearly received by many South Carolinians."

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Rudy's S.C. Chair: "I Love And Revere And Cherish" Confederate Flag

We've just unearthed another choice quote from Rudy's new S.C. co-chair, former Congressman and former state Senator Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Not only did Ravenel profess his love for the Confederate battle flag, but he said this on national television to none other than Martin Luther King III, the son of Martin Luther King, Jr.

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/jun/27/rudys_s_c_chair_i_love_and_revere_and_cherish_confederate_flag

Whether they were elected or civic or rleigious leaders, except the few religious ones who backed him.