Bob McDonnell and huge supporter Bobby May
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McDonnell Condemns Bobby May
Tim Craig washingtonpost.com October 10, 2008
Attorney General Robert F. McDonnell, a GOP candidate for governor, issued a statement today condemning Bobby May, the Republican official from Southwest Virginia who wrote controversial remarks about Sen. Barack Obama in a local newspaper.
Until this week, May had been on GOP presidential nominee John McCain’s Virginia leadership team. But May was forced to leave the campaign earlier this week after the Los Angeles Times published part of a column that May had written.
“The Attorney General condemns the offensive rhetoric in this column,” said J. Tucker Martin, a McDonnell spokesman.
In the column, May wrote Obama would hire the rapper Ludacris to paint the White House black, change the national anthem into the “black national anthem,” raise taxes to “pay for Obama’s inner-city political base” and replace the U.S. flag with one that had “a star and crescent logo.”
How convenient for the candidate for Governor to come out against racism in October. Oh, that’s right, he “…condemns the offensive rhetoric.” Nice try there, Bob.
