Posted by
Bruce Armstrong on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 2:35:22 PM
The Senate race in Virginia gets darker and darker (no pun intended), with the
Webb campaign's minions now alleging that Senator George Allen used the N-word repeatedly while in college, and put a dead deer's head in the mailbox of a black family. Allegations were made by a former teammate and by political science professor and talking head Larry Sabato.
The Allen campaign released statements from four of Allen's college teammates, all of whom denied that Allen made any comments of the nature alleged. Of course, the Associated Press story puts the denial in the fourth paragraph down, with no details.
What the Associated Press failed to put in its story is that both of the people making the N-word allegations - Dr. Ken Shelton, a radiologist in Hendersonville, NC, and Sabato, head of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics - have donated to Democratic candidates in the past, with neither one ever having given to a Republican candidate, committee, or cause.
According to the Federal Election Commission's searchable database for
individual contributions, Dr. Shelton has given two donations totalling $700 to Sam Neill, a Democratic House candidate from North Carolina in 2000 (
$500 on 2/16/2000 and
$200 on 9/26/2000). Sabato gave
$500 on 5/21/1999 to James D. Matheson, a Democratic House candidate from Utah.
I have no particular love for Senator Allen - at best, he's been an undistinguished Senator, and his campaign has resembled a seismograph reading - up, down, up, down, up, down. But he deserves a fair shot - something he, and no Republican, will get from the MSM.