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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 12:56 AM
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'Rand Paul Aide Quits Over MySpace Racism'.... back in December
'Rand Paul Aide Quits Over MySpace Racism'

After an investigation into Hightower’s MySpace racism, by Paul campaign manager David Adams, Hightower’s resignation was immediately accepted. Hightower denied that he had a MySpace page, casting himself as a victim of a political attack. Hightower said he was attacked because opponents can’t find “any dirt” on Paul.

But yesterday, Hightower managed to log on to the MySpace account that he didn’t have, to delete the offensive posts about his KKK mall outing, but he inexplicably left the lynching image on his wall. Hightower has since deleted his MySpace profile.
Paul issued a statement, saying that he never heard Hightower make racist comments, but accepted his resignation to prevent the controversy from overshadowing his campaign issues.

http://chattahbox.com/us/2009/12/18/rand-paul-aide-quit... /

Also in the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/18/rand-paul-spok...






I call it Rand Paul's latent racism, others call it conservative libertarian ..... bullshit.
His top aide for God's sake


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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 01:13 AM
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1. Interesting. Thanks.
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glowing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 05:04 AM
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2. Oops, not quite ready for the grand ball now were they?
Edited on Fri May-21-10 05:20 AM by glowing
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 05:19 AM
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3. Talking points Memo has the story now in more detail
I covered this 3 days ago in a discusion in someone's OP. The TPM story has more detail today.

Sorry no link I'm on my itouch
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-10 05:40 AM
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4. Your HuffPo link doesn't work
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