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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2010 => Topic started by: The Village Idiot on February 15, 2010, 01:51:53 PM
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http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/02/shami-outdoes-m.html
Only a part of it is posted here:
Perhaps Democratic gubernatorial candidate Farouk Shami just wanted to steal the spotlight back from Debra Medina. If so, the hair care magnate who wants to be governor chose one heck of a way to get attention, outdoing Medina on the 9/11 front and throwing in some offensive comments about race for good measure.
Earlier today, Shami taped an interview that will air Sunday on WFAA's Inside Texas Politics. The first-time candidate talked about why he hires mostly Hispanics and blacks to work in his factories.
"I find 80 percent of my employees at the factory are Hispanics," Shami said. "I don't find, you know, many white people really willing to work, you know, unfortunately."
He added that white workers want to be supervisors and expect to be paid more. Then, when a second interviewer asked Shami about Medina's comments regarding 9/11 conspiracy theories, he, too, declined to disavow suggestions that the U.S. government might have been involved in the attacks.
"Would we ever find the truth about 9/11? That's a very dangerous subject to get into," Shami said. "You know so it's hard to make judgment. I'm not saying yes or no, because I don't know the truth."
Shami's campaign has subsequently sent a statement of clarification, emphasizing that he does not know whether 9/11 was an inside job. Glad we cleared that up.
While Shami's comments were perhaps more outrageous than Medina's, they might generate fewer headlines.
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Shami-WOW!
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Even the DUmmies don't think too much of this guy.
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I hope his hair care product business suffers
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Maybe it's just my inner redneck coming out, but it seems like a guy named Farouk Shami would have a Hell of a time getting elected to anything in a Statewide election just about anywhere in the US, let alone Texas.
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Maybe it's just my inner redneck coming out, but it seems like a guy named Farouk Shami would have a Hell of a time getting elected to anything in a Statewide election just about anywhere in the US, let alone Texas.
I heard that some country elected a man named Barack HUSSEIN Obama president.
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I heard that some country elected a man named Barack HUSSEIN Obama president.
There is that......
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I heard that some country elected a man named Barack HUSSEIN Obama president.
Didn't carry Texas, did he? Just sayin.'
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Didn't carry Texas, did he? Just sayin.'
There is that........
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Didn't carry Texas, did he? Just sayin.'
I was referring to the part about other states.