aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Rudy’s SC Chair loves & reveres the confederate flag

You’ll recall Rudy’s last SC campaign chair, Thomas Ravenel, a former real estate developer and rising political star, was indicted on federal cocaine charges a couple weeks back.

Now comes news of the new guy and it’s, er, not so good. TPM Cafe:

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.

From ABC’s Nightline, July 26, 1999:

“I mean, you know, I love and revere and cherish the Confederate battle flag. When you want to take it down or if you take it down, pull it down, move it or whatever, don’t you discriminate against me? How about me?”

LATER: Max Blumenthal at The Nation weighs in on Rudy’s White Powder/White Power Problem.