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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
Fri May 9, 2014, 10:31 PM May 2014

Meet the US Senate Candidate Who’s Standing With Cliven Bundy

By Chris Good
May 9, 2014 2:09pm

Georgia Senate candidate Derrick Grayson didn’t have much going on last Saturday so he headed out to Nevada to check out Cliven Bundy’s ranch and meet with the rancher whose armed standoff with the Bureau of Land Management, and whose musings about “the negro” and slavery, caused successive waves of headlines and national curiosity ...

The network engineer, faith-based volunteer, first-time candidate and self-proclaimed “minister of truth,” is fighting an uphill battle for Georgia’s Republican Senate nomination, running in a seven-way May 20 primary against David Perdue, the businessman, former Dollar General CEO, and cousin of former governor Sonny Perdue; the Sarah-Palin-endorsed former Georgia secretary of State Karen Handel; GOP Reps. Paul Broun, Phil Gingrey, and Jack Kingston; and patent attorney Art Gardner ...

He recorded a YouTube video defending Bundy and remarking: “What the man said is nothing I have not said. Now some people might be trippin’ because he used the word ‘colored,’ but that’s what they used to call us back in the day,” accusing the national media of seeking to divide Americans and detract from the substance of Bundy’s dispute with BLM by emphasizing his comments on race ...

Grayson told ABC they’re now arranged in several campsites, their food stored in a makeshift warehouse lined with canned goods, bottled water and gatorade. One man with an RV lets Bundy supporters use his shower; on some days, supporters rent hotel rooms in which they can bathe. A “sentry” with a walkie-talkie prevents just anyone from wandering up to Bundy’s house ...


http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/05/meet-the-us-senate-candidate-whos-standing-with-cliven-bundy/


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Meet the US Senate Candidate Who’s Standing With Cliven Bundy (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2014 OP
Do we really want a Senator palling around with a guy.. Historic NY May 2014 #1
Polling suggests he hasn't broken into double digits yet, and the primary is only struggle4progress May 2014 #2
Another useful idiot Jamaal510 May 2014 #3
This really is crazy. Even Hannity realized that supporting Bundy was a bad idea... Rhiannon12866 May 2014 #4

struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
2. Polling suggests he hasn't broken into double digits yet, and the primary is only
Sat May 10, 2014, 01:12 AM
May 2014

about a week and a half off

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