Thread: Rand Paul condemns Cliven Bundy

H2 Note: Bundy Ranch Saturday, April 19 (fast forward to the 14 minute mark)

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Douglas Barclay, Rare Staff
Posted on April 24, 2014

Rand Paul condemns Cliven Bundy

Lorraine Miller, head of the NAACP plans to invite Paul to speak at the organization’s yearly conference in July.

After a New York Times piece revealed several racially insensitive statements made by Cliven Bundy, his early supporters in Washington have distanced themselves from the Nevada rancher and, after Nevada Sen. Dean Heller ripped into Bundy in his own statement to Business Insider, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) followed suit.

“His remarks on race are offensive and I wholeheartedly disagree with him,” Paul said.

The New York times reported Bundy made the comments when speaking at a sparsely attended press conference on his Nevada ranch.

“They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail because they never learned how to pick cotton,” Bundy said over the weekend, according to the Times.

“And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom,” Bundy told the crowd.

Sen. Paul has tried to rejuvenate relations between the Republican Party and the African-American community.

Lorraine Miller, head of the NAACP plans to invite Paul to speak at the organization’s yearly conference in July.

Miller hailed Paul’s efforts to reform prison sentencing.

“He’s a different voice in the arena that we don’t traditionally hear,” she said.

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GinnyLee • 40 minutes ago

If Rand Paul disagrees with Mr. Bundy on his comments, why not give full disclosure of those remarks? Perhaps, Mr. Paul doesn't know the whole commentary?

And which part of Mr. Bundy's comments can be disputed - other than his personal musing about the former or latter state of the American Negroes?

“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.

“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.” ~ Cliven Bundy, according to the NY Times.


catsarecool • an hour ago

I think Bundy was trying to make a point that as bad as slavery was,
today's society is worse off in some ways. We still have slavery
today, only its not as overt.

But kudos to the neocons to try and destroy his name for their buddies on the other side. Don't worry, your buddies the authoritarian leftists, will finish the job.

After Supporting Rancher, Paul Condemns His Remarks on Blacks

By ADAM NAGOURNEY APRIL 24, 2014

Senator Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican and potential 2016 presidential candidate, joined a line of Republican and Democratic leaders on Thursday in denouncing Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher at the center of a standoff with the federal government over land use, for suggesting that blacks might have been better off in slavery.

“His remarks on race are offensive, and I wholeheartedly disagree with him,” Mr. Paul said in a statement.

The senator’s remarks came after he had offered support for Mr. Bundy’s case as the rancher resisted the federal Bureau of Land Management when it sought to confiscate his cattle because he was not paying fees for their grazing on public land. The government backed off after federal authorities encountered hundreds of Bundy supporters, many carrying guns, who had flocked to his ranch in Bunkerville, Nev., as the dispute intensified.

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With his remarks, Mr. Paul joined other Republican leaders — among them, Senator Dean Heller of Nevada — in assailing Mr. Bundy for comments published online by The New York Times on Wednesday evening after they had previously expressed support for the rancher.

Mr. Bundy, in the course of 55 minutes of remarks to supporters last Saturday, talked about seeing blacks gathered outside public housing projects in North Las Vegas.

“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy?”

A spokesman for Mr. Heller, who had also expressed support for Mr. Bundy’s supporters, said the senator “completely disagrees with Mr. Bundy’s appalling and racist statements, and condemns them in the most strenuous way.”

Mr. Bundy has been championed by some Fox News commentators, though there were signs that they were distancing themselves after his remarks were published.

Greta Van Susteren of Fox News posted a link on her blog to the Times article under the headline, “Let me make this plain: I condemn what Cliven Bundy said about African-Americans.”

The Nevada Democratic Party issued a statement shortly after the article was published, denouncing Republicans for having aligned themselves with Mr. Bundy

“These comments are reprehensible, and every Republican politician in the state of Nevada who tried to latch on to Cliven Bundy’s newfound celebrity with Tea Partiers and the militia movement should be ashamed of their actions,” it read.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/us/politics/after-supporting-rancher-paul-condemns-his-remarks-on-blacks.html?_r=0

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GOP Scrambles to Condemn Rancher's Remarks on Race


By Carrie Dann Offering words of encouragement for a rancher leading an armed standoff against federal rangers turns out to be not so great of a political move – especially when the rancher in question muses publicly about the benefits of slavery.

Republicans – including possible 2016 candidate Rand Paul -- are scrambling to distance themselves from defiant Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy after he made startling comments about slavery and African-Americans in a New York Times article published Wednesday night.

From the Times’ Adam Nagourney:

“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.

“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”

Bundy had previously drawn support from some GOP lawmakers for his clash with the Bureau of Land Management.

After Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Bundy and his allies “domestic violent terrorist wannabes,” fellow Sen. Dean Heller countered last week that they are “patriots.” Paul urged Reid to “calm the rhetoric” and criticized the federal government for what he described as an intimidating presence during the standoff. “The federal government shouldn’t violate the law, nor should we have 48 federal agencies carrying weapons and having SWAT teams,” he told a Kentucky radio station.

In statements after Bundy’s remarks, both Paul and Heller condemned his comments.

"His remarks on race are offensive and I wholeheartedly disagree with him,” said Paul.

And a spokesman for Heller told the Times that the senator “completely disagrees with Mr. Bundy’s appalling and racist statements, and condemns them in the most strenuous way.”

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/poli...ks-race-n88556

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