GOP State Sen. Kim Hendren: ‘That Jew’
With the GOP on the ropes and struggling to keep from being knocked out, this is probably the last news Michael Steele wants to hear: GOP Sen. hopeful heard calling Schumer ‘that Jew’.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Republican state lawmaker hoping for his party’s nod to run for Senate reportedly referred to Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer as “that Jew” during a recent appearance before a Republican group.
State Sen. Kim Hendren told The Associated Press on Thursday that he was wrong to refer to Schumer’s religious affiliation during a Pulaski County Republican Committee meeting last week. Hendren said he doesn’t remember the exact wording of his comment, but he was quoted by conservative blogger Jason Tolbert as calling Schumer “that Jew.”
“I ought not to have referred to it at all,” Hendren told the AP. “When I referred to him as Jewish, it wasn’t because I don’t like Jewish people.”
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