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ML King Jr. to appear in GOP ads?
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Appears in GOP Ads?
(Annapolis, Md.) - Was Martin Luther King a Republican? Did the Democrats start the Ku Klux Klan? The answer to both is yes, if you believe a new ad that's being put on the radio by members of the GOP in Maryland.
The National Black Republican Association ad features one woman telling another: "Doctor King was a real man. You know he was a Republican."
A researcher with the King Center in Atlanta says King never endorsed candidates from either party. The ad goes on to say Democrats helped pass and enforce Jim Crow laws that kept blacks and whites in the South separate.
Maryland is the scene of a sharp political battle for the state's open US Senate seat. It pits Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, a black Republican against his Democratic opponent, Representative Ben Cardin. Steele has said the ad is "insulting to Marylanders" and has asked the GOP group to stop running it.
James Gilbert, Web Producer
(Annapolis, Md.) - Was Martin Luther King a Republican? Did the Democrats start the Ku Klux Klan? The answer to both is yes, if you believe a new ad that's being put on the radio by members of the GOP in Maryland.
The National Black Republican Association ad features one woman telling another: "Doctor King was a real man. You know he was a Republican."
A researcher with the King Center in Atlanta says King never endorsed candidates from either party. The ad goes on to say Democrats helped pass and enforce Jim Crow laws that kept blacks and whites in the South separate.
Maryland is the scene of a sharp political battle for the state's open US Senate seat. It pits Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, a black Republican against his Democratic opponent, Representative Ben Cardin. Steele has said the ad is "insulting to Marylanders" and has asked the GOP group to stop running it.
James Gilbert, Web Producer
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