The spokesman for U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul resigned Thursday after the campaign acknowledged that he maintained a page on a Web site that included racist remarks and suggested the government bore some responsibility for the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.No they don't, but then again these are the kind of things you check on before you hire a campaign spokesperson here in 2009. Then again racism and 9/11 truther nonsense from the spokesperson for a Kentucky Republican is almost expected, is it not?
Christopher Hightower’s resignation came five hours after he told The Courier-Journal that he had never been a member of the Web site, myspace.com, and that none of the things attributed to him on the site were his.
But Paul campaign manager David Adams said later that he understood the myspace page was Hightower’s. He said Hightower resigned his paid campaign post during a meeting with Paul late in the day.
“Today the Rand Paul campaign became aware of some disturbing images on a social network site attributed to a campaign staffer,” a statement from the Paul campaign said in announcing Hightower’s resignation.
“These images in no way represent Dr. Paul or his campaign nor do they represent the beliefs of this staff member. These images are reprehensible and have no place in civil discourse.”
The crew over at Barefoot and Progressive broke this story and they're fighting back hard against the Paultards who are assaulting them for this.
You'll find more on the 2010 KY Senate race at Page One Kentucky, which also broke this one wide open.
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