Md Gov. holds an event at white only club

[donsu]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8618572

Staffer criticizes Robert Ehrlich for holding fundraiser at restricted club


Maryland’s Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele back-peddled Saturday on previous comments that downplayed Gov. Robert Ehrlich’s decision to hold a fundraiser in a restricted country club that allows blacks to enter but prohibits them from becoming members.

When Steele, who analysts suspect will run for a U.S. Senate seat against former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume in 2006, was first asked to comment on the location of the fundraiser, he referred to the flap as “all a bunch of nothing.”

During an interview with a Washington, D.C.-area radio station, Steele said his opinion has changed a bit. “I admit that my initial reaction to this was a little more flippant than it should have been. When I was posed with this question, my response was in the context of all the things I am fighting for and thinking about,” said Steele, stating that minority access to a better education is more important to the community than access to the restricted Elkridge Club in Baltimore.

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In an interview with another radio station, Ehrlich said, "I don't know what their membership list is, and guess what -- it's none of my business, nor is it any of your business."

Steele became the state’s lieutenant governor in 2003, becoming the first African American elected to statewide office and the first-ever Republican lieutenant governor in Maryland.
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oh Steele, Steele, Steele what have you become?

Ehrlich must have virus qualities.

let's remember, Maryland is below the Mason-Dixon Line

[goclark]

1. Kick to get his sorry butt out of Maryland

[RS08]

2. You meant to say that:

"MD Governor (R) holds Klan rally". That's what is sounds like to me. As a minority I am very angered by this.

[jojo54]

3. Both of them need to be run out of this country, not just MD.

Ehrlich said, "I don't know what their membership list is, and guess what -- it's none of my business, nor is it any of your business."

So in other words, you are saying that you knew this club didn't allow minorities to become members and you're telling everyone to shut up about it.

Fr_king f(c)reep.

[wli]

4. Republikkkans: soft on racism

[dissent1977]

5. None of our business?

In an interview with another radio station, Ehrlich said, "I don't know what their membership list is, and guess what -- it's none of my business, nor is it any of your business."

Guess what Ehrlich? IF OUR GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS SEGREGATION THAT IS OUR BUSINESS. We are not going to shut up while you work to undo the accomplishments of the Civil Rights movement.