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Michigan Ron Paul Organizer is A Member of the KKK

dailykos.com — "I support Ron Paul because he is in the fight for freedom." The page contains no mention of one of Gray's other roles: organizer with the Knight's Party faction of the Ku Klux Klan.

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  • OffPiste, on 01/16/2008, -48/+38I guessing Uncle Ron sees nothing wrong about this. This guy is a perfect example of the people Paul would put in power if he was elected. America rejects racism and it, thank God, is firmly rejecting racist Ron Paul as a candidate.
  • Minarchian, on 01/16/2008, -33/+30littlegreenKOS out with their race baiting agenda.

    • onetimer, on 01/16/2008, -19/+29Jesus do you have a beeper that goes off every time a story regarding anything possibly negative about ron paul is submitted?

      How about addressing the topic instead of spewing ad hominems?
      • Midoc, on 01/16/2008, -16/+22Just ignore Minarchian, he never has any facts to back up his statements, just like Ron Paul.
      • Weeping, on 01/16/2008, -8/+4onetimer has been known to spew ad hominems, why did you even come here?

        This is a NON STORY if you ask me.
    • chaosium, on 01/16/2008, -18/+25Minarchian something tells me that an active KKK organizer is more interested in race baiting than KOS and Hillary Clinton combined.
      • evolutioninside, on 01/16/2008, -17/+12TROLL ALERT
        • onetimer, on 01/16/2008, -13/+16We know you're a troll. No need to announce yourself again for what appears to be, the 50th time.
        • ncairns, on 01/16/2008, -7/+11HAHAHAHA - someone whose tag is 'evolutioninside' who supports Ron Paul!
        • card51short, on 01/18/2008, -3/+3ncairns...quick, name a candidate who only believes in evolution...quick!
    • Herkimer56, on 01/16/2008, -13/+19How did your candidate do tonight, Minarchian?
      • card51short, on 01/18/2008, -3/+44th place...above front runners Rudy and Freddy. ;)
        woohoo!
  • onetimer, on 01/16/2008, -34/+35You mean someone affiliated with a racist organization supports ron paul? No, you must be confusing Ron Paul for another candidate...
    • Weeping, on 01/16/2008, -6/+5Yes, It's a double standard. I'ts ok for Obama to be a black separatist and for Hillary to hire LARAZA racists for her campaign adn Obama to belong to separatist churches or for Hillary to scream "F'n Jew BASTARD" to one of her staff. But some guy no one even knows, is somehow a big scandal, NOT! NO ONE CARES. Get it through your thick RINO/NEOCON/LIBERAL/SICKO heads, we still love Ron Paul and always will. He's squeaky clean and YOU"RE NOT just for supporting those others.
      • COINTELPROAgent, on 01/17/2008, -7/+5The difference is that those other candidates don't have supporters spammingg digg.
  • notmike721, on 01/16/2008, -34/+30ok, this needs to make the front page, this is absurd.
    • jcm267, on 01/16/2008, -17/+23Shout it to anyone on our list who you think would like it. I don't think this will frontpage, the Bury Brigade is afraid of anything that portrays Ron Paul negatively no matter how true. There is a good chance that the Bury Brigade has already gotten to this!
  • jcm267, on 01/16/2008, -22/+25This must be a coincidence. This Kos piece was written by "Phenry", which is the name of an over the hill Ronbot/Colonel Sanders impersonator on digg!

    http://digg.com/users/phenry
  • Herkimer56, on 01/16/2008, -39/+31I'm hardly surprised that scum like this would support Ron Paul. Birds of a feather as they say.
    • Weeping, on 01/16/2008, -5/+1I'm hardly surprised that anyone would think it's any of your business... I mean Hillary is THE RACE and Obama is a separatist. STuff that up your nose.
  • jksturm, on 01/16/2008, -27/+35So why dont we hent down some radical supporter of Hillary, Romney or McCain??? How does this make Ron Paul a racist again? The NAACP Supports Ron Paul. Nice smear attempt though.
    • onetimer, on 01/16/2008, -21/+25Sure, point them out, then, won't you? The deal with paul is his at the very least *questionable* newsletters, and the FACT that he has an unusually high proportion of support from the "white power" community.

      NCAAP Austin chapter president != NCAAP. Not even close. You paultards keep pointing it out as if it negates the newsletters entirely. "See! See! He has a black fiend!! this PROVES he can't be racist!!"
    • amiches, on 01/16/2008, -16/+19"The NCAAP supports Ron Paul" is the funniest bit of hyperbole I've ever seen from a Paultard. And believe me, that's really saying something.
    • Humptydank, on 01/16/2008, -13/+19"NAACP Austin Chapter President supports Ron Paul!"
      then
      "NCAAP President supports Ron Paul!"
      now
      "NAACP supports Ron Paul!"
      soon
      "Everything that is a color supports Ron Paul!"
    • chaosium, on 01/16/2008, -17/+15Kind of how they say that "THE AMERICAN PEOPLE" support Paul, when they're really referring to "The Lunatic Fringe".
    • card51short, on 01/18/2008, -2/+3first it's
      Ron Paul attended a restaurant that a neo nazi went to.
      Ron Paul ate with the neo nazi.
      Ron Paul gave a speech with the neo nazi.
      Ron Paul is attempting to bring back the Jim Crow laws and slavery.
      Ron Paul is going to take over the world and make it his global plantation.
    • orca94, on 01/18/2008, -2/+2Even if the NAACP supported Ron Paul, since when did the NAACP because the country's only litmus test for racists.
  • kp998, on 01/16/2008, -23/+19Some ***** doesn't warrant an intelligent reply.
    • chaosium, on 01/16/2008, -13/+19That's because you don't have any.
      • kp998, on 01/16/2008, -12/+9No, it's because I'm not 12.
        • amiches, on 01/16/2008, -9/+16So what's your explanation for a known and public Klansman being employed by the Ron Paul campaign? And what do you think his campaign should do about the matter now that it knows?
        • chaosium, on 01/16/2008, -8/+14You're becoming a man this year? That's great to hear!
  • Humptydank, on 01/16/2008, -22/+32Let's not get too far ahead on this. Asking campaigns, Ron Paul or not, to vet the backgrounds of everyone in every state at the *volunteer coordinator* level is too much. Volunteer coordinator is only a few steps up from "covered-dish bringer."

    We all know Ron Paul attracts the loons, and that's his fault because of the stands he takes, not because someone should have to take responsibility for who likes them in a political campaign.

    The important sentence in the article is this one:

    "It remains to be seen whether having an avowed member of the Ku Klux Klan as a county coordinator will finally spur Paul or his campaign to take action."

    In other words, they've been informed, and now that they know then there is no excuse for at least making a statement removing him from the campaign. If they don't, then they've only added to a so-far flawless record of actively welcoming some of the worst elements in America.

    I'll be waiting expectantly to see Ron Paul take at least one small baby step towards the racial rhetoric he has on his web site.
    • ionlyknowy, on 01/16/2008, -7/+754,000 loons voted for Ron in Michigan today... that is a lot of loons!
      • chaosium, on 01/16/2008, -7/+10.5% is not "a lot".
      • Humptydank, on 01/16/2008, -6/+10I don't blame them all. Ron Paul has run an intentionally deceptive campaign.

        I honestly believe that if we took aside all of the *actual* Ron Paul voters, not just the activist crazies, and walked them through what he really believes and what the implications are, fully two-thirds would walk away from him immediately. Not necessarily for another candidate, they would simply repudiate him on the spot.

        So it is with demagogues, suppress the facts with a populist message. It's why I oppose him.
  • amiches, on 01/16/2008, -29/+22Another brick in Ron Paul's racist wall. First the pictures, then the donation, then the newsletters, now this. Ronbots - the more reasonable libertarians have abandoned the Paul campaign and your poll numbers are in free fall. I'd be surprised if your cynical MLK-day Money Bomb nets more than $500,000. When are you going to give up the ghost?
    • h4ckler, on 01/16/2008, -10/+6Hope you have a fork and knife ready. Those words are going to taste salty.
      • amiches, on 01/16/2008, -13/+16Okay! Would you like to put your money where your mouth is? I bet you $100 that Ron Paul does not win a single primary or caucus. We can put the money in a Paypal account, give the password to a third party, and whoever is right gets the password after primary season.

        I've offered this challenge to four or five Ronbots who have told me that I'm going to eat my words, and none have taken me up on it. I wonder why?

        p.s. 6% in Michigan
        • amiches, on 01/16/2008, -6/+9Seven negative votes and no one accepts the bet. What's wrong, tards? I thought you were 100% confident in your Dear Leader!
        • skeetergreen, on 01/16/2008, -3/+4Rontards don't have money to bet, they spent it all on a blimp
      • ncairns, on 01/16/2008, -5/+7Ooh, I want in on this too - shame he'll never take the bet though.
    • scottknick, on 01/16/2008, -4/+6Don't you mean the "Hate Whitey Day" Money Bomb? Or has RP stopped calling it that?
  • salesniper, on 01/16/2008, -25/+20hmmm i wonder why ron paul is the candidate of choice of storm front and racists

    i'm sure there's absolutely no reason they coalesce under him more than any other candidate
    • chaosium, on 01/16/2008, -11/+17RACISTS LOVE FREEDOMS

      That's it, right?

      Hate-fueled Neanderthals love LIBERTIES?

      Our FOUNDING FATHERS preferred minorities knew their place?

      Okay that last one may have been true, but I'm stumped!
    • amiches, on 01/16/2008, -12/+17It's just a coincidence dude, like the coincidence of hiring a Klan member to help run your field program, and putting your name and signature on a newsletter that just happened to have racist ***** in it
  • bohemianowl, on 01/16/2008, -25/+28Ron Paul has a message of freedom, which is popular wih many people from all walks of life. To say this guy is in any way influencing Ron Paul is a complete fabrication. Ron Paul has publicly denounced racism in every form. Daily KOS is scraping the bottom of the barrel, which is appropriate for bottom feeders. Anyway, Buried as Daily KOS trash.
    • amiches, on 01/16/2008, -13/+15Since when does many people = 6% of Republican primary voters
    • RonLawl, on 01/16/2008, -10/+9Well, even in a best case scenario, Ron Paul supposedly put a team of neo-nazis in charge of his newsletter and allowed them to serve as the voice of Ron Paul for decades while he defended their writings, and still to this day refuses to out them. But the idea that they would have any influence on his campaign? Nah... that's just ridiculous.
      • Mortikhi, on 01/16/2008, -7/+6Or someone that wrote for the newsletter was disgruntled and went ***** crazy on the newsletter in order to hurt RP.
        • ncairns, on 01/16/2008, -6/+8Yeah... and that disgruntled person managed to stay disgruntled for twenty years without being... gruntled...
        • diffraction, on 01/18/2008, -2/+1The only problem with your theory is that it was a hand full of letters in a 4 year period--all written by freelancers.
  • evolutioninside, on 01/16/2008, -23/+21Attention the enemies of freedom are out tonight and they are the trolls. Look how they swarm like flies on a turd every time there is some smear story on Ron Paul. Look at the histories of these trolls and you find the most negative and hateful comments in their submissions. What does that say about their agenda? Do you think anyone would waste so much time to posting dirty lies and smears just because they do not agree with something. Week after week these losers make hundreds of comments that are intended to deceive and confuse newcomers. Stand strong because evil only triumphs when good people do nothing. Ron Paul 2008. Peace!
    • salesniper, on 01/16/2008, -11/+17attention the kkk is out tonight and they are the ron paul supporters. look how they swarm like flies on a turd every time racist candidates run for office. look at the newsletters of these trolls and you find the most negative and hateful comments in their articles. what does that say about their agenda? do you think anyone would waste so much time supporting someone that is not in full agreement with them. week after week these losers dump hundreds of thousands of dollars into the paul campaign that are intended to prop up one of their compatriots. stand strong because racists only triump when good people do nothing. anybody but ron paul 2008. peace!
    • GoatRoper, on 01/16/2008, -7/+14I don't have an agenda, I just have a broadband connection and a distaste for your *****.
  • amiches, on 01/16/2008, -26/+18WOOOHOOO! Racism is POPULAR!!
  • mattsw84, on 01/16/2008, -22/+23But, but, guys he's not a racist, I sent him half my life savings..
  • indyattic, on 01/16/2008, -18/+18Sheesh it's hard to keep up these days. I understand that anti-rascist thing, even when it's the guilty white liberals espousing crap plans that do nothing to actually help black America. I'm just confused because apparently it's ok to openly be a marxist/socialist/communist these days? That's far more dangerous than some obscure faction of society like the KKK.
    • amiches, on 01/16/2008, -14/+15Yep! Good thing there are no marxists or communists running for President this year! But there is a white supremacist running, so that's why we're discussing white supremacism
    • imperium2000, on 01/16/2008, -10/+16Let me see.
      An economic/social belief system Vs. a belief system based on hatred of non whites.

      You tell me.
    • GoatRoper, on 01/16/2008, -11/+12Ron Paul supporters come to mind.......
  • Demonmonger, on 01/16/2008, -6/+26The racists endorses Ron Paul's message of liberty and peace, not the other way around.
    • amiches, on 01/16/2008, -4/+9Agreed on the first part. But when he takes their money and gives them a platform to spew their *****, he's complicit too.
      • orca94, on 01/18/2008, -4/+2Especially when he spews it himself through his newsletters.
  • GoatRoper, on 01/16/2008, -15/+16RonPaulForums.com discussion about this: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=9093 ...
  • Erythroxylum, on 01/16/2008, -15/+28Attention freedom lovers! These dirty smears are just that; smears by certain special interest groups (mostly with big noses or wearing du-rags), Enemies of Freedom who are afraid of Ron Paul's Message and his unstoppable, within-the-margin-of-error share of popular support!
    Under the Glorious Leadership of Ron Paul, tractor production will rise by over 30%, and chocolate ration will increase by 12%!
    The Blue Zone is for Jews, the Yellow Zone is for Negroes, the Pink Zone is for Homosexuals and the Orange Zone is for Dissidents and Gypsies! Do not be afraid! That almond smell and the smoke coming out of the huts isn't hydrogen cyanide! It's...almonds! That's right, the Glorious Leader wants to give extra almond rations to the Jews, Negroes, Homosexuals, Dissidents and Gypsies, even though they deserve to burn!
    Ron Paul 2008!
    • scottknick, on 01/16/2008, -5/+13It's a little frightening that this hasn't been dugg down by the Paulbots. Is it possible they don't get the joke?
      • chaosium, on 01/16/2008, -4/+11They don't digg down their own when they rant about JEWS JEWS JEWS being the fault of everything, I do think this has been masked in language familiar to them.
      • amiches, on 01/16/2008, -3/+9All they read was the first sentence and the capitalized words, which included "Enemies of Freedom" and "Glorious Leadership". Not too much attention span with these folks.
  • notmike721, on 01/16/2008, -19/+14This article needs to be emailed to as many news outlets as possible, we need to get this seen
  • ronpaulftw, on 01/16/2008, -12/+6http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAWClI8zsH4
  • peteweird, on 01/16/2008, -12/+16HRC recieve donations from a Hizbollah supporter during her run for senate and Al gore has been photographed with drug dealers.
    http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/gore.html
    http://www.dynw.com/ronpaulisracist/
    Guilt by association is a fallacious argument - buried.

  • ZenFountain, on 01/16/2008, -12/+8http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=9093 ...
    http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/3575/newkosarti ...

    Go go gadget cleaning crew...
  • corncat, on 01/16/2008, -15/+17This is getting absurd... how many Kluxers, Neonazis, white supremecists and other assorted racists can Ron Paul associate with? I didn't even think that there were that many racists in the whole country! How is Ron Paul managing to find **all** of them?
    • Reese268, on 01/16/2008, -7/+9ok, so far he's been connected in some way to 2. You don't think there are 2 racists in the country? Good God, this guy probably isn't even a part of the actual campaign staff (yes, Kos's "reporting" is so pathetic it can't even tell us if this Michigan organization is directly connected to the campaign). These attacks are DESPERATION because there is no ACTUAL dirt on him to dig up. Guilt by association is not valid proof of anything. Ron Paul is not a racist.
      • COINTELPROAgent, on 01/17/2008, -3/+4All the major white power front groups endorsing RP adds up to more than two people.
  • amiches, on 01/16/2008, -13/+14Gems from the Ron Paul forums thread:

    "If only our administrators could delete all bad information about Paul that's out there, just like Don Black's posts. If no one could say bad things about Paul, he would be unstoppable."

    "Better a klansman than someone who doubts the wisdom of HQ. Take your pessimism elsewhere."
  • 1town, on 01/16/2008, -10/+16Ok, a racist support Ron Paul. And this says what about Ron Paul? Not a ***** thing. Ron Paul is for liberty, for all. For All.
  • Arramond, on 01/16/2008, -11/+15Ron Paul isn't racist so explain why this is an issue?
    • chaosium, on 01/16/2008, -11/+7Because he's utterly unaware of the consequences of his actions, who he surrounds himself with, and he's unable to fix the *****-ups he's gotten himself into.
    • sultanknish, on 01/16/2008, -7/+8of course he's not racist... he's just afraid of those "fleet footed blacks"
  • lastnymleft, on 01/16/2008, -13/+8WHOMEVER wins this upcoming election will need 70,000,000 - 80,000,000 voters supporting them. ALL candidates are shooting for those numbers. To expect candidates to vet their individual supporters is just ludicrous. So long as supporters - be they individual OR collective - do not influence the candidate. And which candidates are most likely to be influenced, and which candidates are most unlikely to be influenced? Check out whitehouseforsale dot org, to see.
  • vanitic, on 01/16/2008, -11/+9So? That guy was a VOLUNTEER. Is Ron Paul supposed to screen every single one of his volunteers? Geez.

    The site, www.michigan4ronpaul.com, is not even sponsored by the official campaign.

    Ridiculous.
    Buried.
  • deadsilver, on 01/16/2008, -9/+4Most people who currently support Ron Paul are racist, implicitly or explicitly.
  • paulell, on 01/16/2008, -5/+6This whole guilt by association crap is getting old... Basically what your saying is if some anonymous person goes take a picture at some convention with Hillary, Obama, McCain, Huckabe, Romney, then volunteers to help their campaign, then murders 100 people in a mall... Does that make those presidential candidates murder's? or murder supporters? NO... Therefore your arguments are meaningless.

    Why not stick to the facts and what he directly says from his mouth in his own words? Where are the racist youtubes of Ron Paul himself? I also think most people who support Ron Paul are NOT racist. I'm not. And nothing you have shown so far has convinced me or any other supporters I know otherwise...

    I see more racism being spewed out the mouths of most of the other candidates except Ron Paul over the last 3 weeks, in public debates no doubt, than some articles written over a decade ago by someone other than Ron Paul himself... Hillary is a racist, McCain is a raicist, they are all racists... You silly people just choose to ignore it when they say it...

    If being indirectly a racist is the BEST you can come up with, man your in trouble... I feel sorry for you guys/gals? :) Good luck on that path, it's not working...

  • Weeping, on 01/16/2008, -4/+4This is even more proof that Paul is inclusive of everyone...NOT ONE CANDIDATE has been required to test any of their supporters, why should Paul? It's fake.
    • chaosium, on 01/18/2008, -3/+1"This is even more proof that Paul is inclusive of everyone"

      =

      "But that's a good thing!"
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