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| Harpootlian Clarifies, Nikki Haley Should 'Go Back to Being an Accountant at a Dress Store' | |
| 2013-05-08 | |
I don't want to buy the black vote. I just want to rent it for a dayHarpootlian ...once and present chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party. Harpootlian is the man who, when he lost to a Publican in 1994, said The people have spoken. The bastards... today attempted to clarify remarks he made Friday at the party's Jefferson-Jackson dinner when he assured the audience that the Democratic challenger to GOP governor Nikki Haley ...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... would "send her back to wherever the hell she came from." Many understood Harpootlian's barb to be directed at Haley's ethnicity -- she is the Indian-American daughter of Sikh immigrants. The longtime Democratic activist immediately waved off such criticism, and today told MSNBC, "All I'm suggesting is she needs to go back to being an accountant in a dress store rather than being this fraud of a governor that we have." Haley, who was raised in Bamberg, S.C., previously worked in her parents' clothing business, Exotica International, and took over the bookkeeping there at the age of 13. Harpootlian is no stranger to controversy. At last year's Democratic National Convention, he compared Haley to Hitler's mistress -- after she participated in a presser from a basement television studio at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, N.C., Harpootlian said she was "down in the bunker a la Eva Braun." | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 From racist to sexist. But it's Ok cause he's a Donk [just like Bull Connor]. /sarc off |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-05-08 09:47 |
| #2 By my experience the sorts of people who say this couldn't hold down a job as a secretary. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-05-08 09:02 |
| #1 Keep digging there, Bub. You'll get to the bottom eventually. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2013-05-08 07:22 |