Republican Candidate's Remarks On Crime Add to Racial Tensions

[Judi Lynn]

Republican Candidate's Remarks On Crime Add to Racial Tensions
Official Faulted for Blaming Prince George's

By Philip Rucker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 3, 2006; Page C05

Al Smith, the rough-riding cowboy of Charles County politics, strode to a red-white-and-blue tree stump to deliver, well, his stump speech. The brim of his 10-gallon hat cast a slight shadow over Smith's face as he took to the bully pulpit to deliver his pitch.

But first, the burly, outspoken Republican commissioner, who is running for president of the Board of Commissioners, had some news to share with supporters gathered for a fundraiser on a sprawling Port Tobacco estate. "I have been accused of being a racist," he said, his face reddening.
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In a county whose black population has surged in recent years partly because of an influx of residents from neighboring Prince George's, the nation's wealthiest majority-black county, Smith's comments have hit a nerve. He has riled not only many African Americans but also white leaders of the county's political establishment, who say they sense racial overtones in his remarks.
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"When a commissioner speaks up and refers to African Americans as 'you people' . . . we stand here today and tell you to your face, sir, that your comments are offensive to African Americans," Braxton continued. "We pay your taxes."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/02/AR2006090200970.html



Commissioner Al Smith

[Rex]

1. Looks like a piece of shit, worthless scumbag.

Looks like a cross between Bosshog and Boris. All fucking Repukes are racist scum.

[POAS]

2. I love the last line in the story....

"I'm tired of them putting them God-dang spin on it, trying to make me a racist," he added. "They're putting a spin on it that's not Al Smith's spin."

[orpupilofnature57]

3. They know no other way , if babs says what she does in public can you just

imagine a private conversation.

[intaglio]

4. I looked at the picture in the WaPo and thought "OMG, Boss Hogg"

n/t

[tanyev]

5. Poor, poor GOP. Victims of self-inflicted verbal diarrhea.

Ya'll just keep on talking, OK?