Perry's N-gate Reminiscent of Cheney's Racism-Charged Hunting

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The flap over the racist name of the hunting lodge that Texas Governor Rick Perry's family leased is not the first time hunting and racism have conspired to tar a politician.

In 2007, a New York Daily News photographer spotted a Confederate flag hanging inside the Clove Valley Rod & Gun Club garage while Vice President Dick Cheney was happily blasting away at its pheasants, ducks or Hungarian partridges. (Management wouldn't say which he was shooting.)

The Rev. Al Sharpton, the New York civil rights leader who recently became an MSNBC host, demanded that Cheney "leave immediately, denounce the club and apologize for going to a club that represents lynching, hate and murder to black people." Cheney did none of the suggestions though his spokeswoman, Megan Mitchell, said neither Cheney nor anyone on his staff saw such a flag at the hunt club.

Many remember Cheney's 2006 Texas hunting mishap in which he shot 78-year-old attorney Harry Whittington in the face instead of a quail, but fewer know about his hunting when he hits his targets.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Perry-s-N-gate-Reminiscent-by-Martha-Rosenberg-111005-669.html

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1. Too many skeletons in his closet

Perry can't possibly push them all back in.

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