What is the name of the racist guy who is running for Senate in Virginia or WV?

Answer 1

You're probably thinking of George Allen, aka "Mr. Macaca;" he's been in the news a lot lately.

Answer 2

Robert Byrd D-WV he was a member and grand kleagle in the KKK.

Two yrs ago used the N-word on Meet the Press

Answer 3

Are you talking about Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, former clansman, former Kleagle (klan recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops? If there was ever an individual who needs to be elected out of the senate it is him. He has been there 48 years, he has served eight, six-year terms. He needs to go! BTW he is a democrat.

Answer 4

Both George Allen (R) and Jim Webb (D) have been accused of using racial slurs in college.

Allen also called an Indian man 'Macaca,' which he claimed meant 'mohawk,' but is a French racial slur for Africans. Allen also reacted strangely to learning that he has Jewish heritage.

Answer 5

Jesse Jackson

Answer 6

I believe you are talking about the liberal democrat, but I forget his name since they are all racists, so it doesn't really matter which state or senator it is.

Answer 7

2006 re-election campaign
Main article: Virginia United States Senate election, 2006
Allen's current term in the Senate expires in January 2007. He is seeking re-election in 2006.

Polls released in May of 2006 showed Allen's approval rating at 53%. By comparison, fellow Republican Virginia senator John Warner has an approval rating of 57% in the same poll. [34] Former Secretary of the Navy James H. Webb, a supporter of Allen in 2000,[35] is the Democratic nominee. Gail Parker, a retired USAF officer and retired civilian Pentagon budget analyst, is also on the ballot as the Independent Green Party candidate.

Allen won the Republican nomination on August 11, 2006.

On August 17, 2006, a SurveyUSA poll sponsored by a local Virginian Television Station (WDBJ-TV Roanoke) was conducted and released. Although Allen holds a 47% approval of respondents, 67% of respondents concede that Allen's "macaca" comments were inappropriate.[36]

A late August 2006 Zogby/Wall Street Journal poll showed that the race between Allen and Webb is a statistical dead-heat, with Webb leading at 47.9% and Allen close behind at 46.6%.[37]

Two polls were released September 10, 2006. A Mason-Dixon report has challenger Jim Webb trailing Allen by four percentage points[38]. However, the second poll conducted by Zogby for the Wall Street Journal has challenger Jim Webb leading Allen by several points, Webb 50.4% to Allen 42.9%[39].

A poll released by Rasmussen Reports on September 13, 2006 showed Allen leading his opponent James Webb 50 to 43.[40]


2008 Presidential bid
George AllenIn a survey of 175 Washington insiders conducted by National Journal's "The Hotline" and released April 29, 2005, Allen was the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for the 2008 Presidential election. [41]

In a subsequent insider survey by National Journal in May of 2006, Allen had dropped to second place, and John McCain held a 3-1 lead over Allen.[42]

Allen has traveled frequently to Iowa (the first state with a presidential caucus) and New Hampshire (the first state with a presidential primary) and is widely assumed to be preparing a run for president. While in Iowa, Allen said that he wished he had been born in Iowa.[citation needed]

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has accused Allen of changing his positions on key issues to appeal to the Republican Party's conservative base, in preparation for the primaries in 2008.[43] For example, although he had previously supported federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, he modified his stance on August 7, 2005 to confine the funding to research that did not destroy embryos.[44]


Controversies

Allen's sister's memoir
Allen's younger sister Jennifer Allen Richard wrote in her memoir Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter (Random House Publishing, 2000) that Allen attacked his younger siblings during his childhood. [45] The memoir claims that Allen held her by her feet over Niagara Falls,[46] struck her boyfriend in the head with a pool cue,[47] threw his brother Bruce through a glass sliding door, tackled his brother Gregory, breaking his collarbone,[48] and dragged Jennifer upstairs by her hair. In the book, she wrote, "George hoped someday to become a dentist…George said he saw dentistry as a perfect profession—getting paid to make people suffer."[49]

Allen has disputed his sister's characterizations of their childhood.[citation needed] Jennifer herself later qualified some of the claims made in the book.[50] With regards to the pool cue incident, she claimed it was a joke and that "Allen was simply testing her boyfriend's reflexes." With regards to the dentist quote, Jennifer claims that the book was a "novelization of the past" and written from the perspective of a young girl "surrounded by older brothers and a larger-than-life father". She claims to have a great relationship with her brother and noted that Allen stepped in for their father to walk her down the aisle at her wedding.


Barr Labs controversy
It was revealed on August 8, 2006 that Allen, who opposes abortion (except in cases of rape, incest, life of the mother, and prior to viability), owned stock in Barr Laboratories Inc., the only American maker of the Plan B "morning after pill", an emergency contraceptive that is supposed to prevent pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of intercourse. The Webb campaign criticized Allen for holding stock in a company that makes a product that many of his supporters oppose. Allen responded by saying that he holds the stock because Barr Labs has created jobs in Virginia, and by pointing to his consistently pro-life voting record.[51]


Confederate flag affinity
Allen has a long history of interest in the Confederate flag, in spite of his never having lived in the South until his transfer from UCLA to the University of Virginia as a sophomore in college.[6]

The May 8, 2006[6] and the May 15, 2006[16] issues of The New Republic reported extensively on Allen's long association with the Confederate flag. The magazine reported that "[a]ccording to his colleagues, classmates, and published reports, Allen has either displayed the Confederate flag – on himself, his car, inside his home – or expressed his enthusiastic approval of the emblem from approximately 1967 to 2000." Allen wore a Confederate flag pin for his high school senior class photo. In high school, college, and law school, Allen adorned his vehicle with a Confederate flag. In college he displayed a Confederate flag in his room. He displayed a Confederate flag in his family's living room until 1992. Allen has stated that the flag was a part of a collection of flags. In 1993, Allen's first statewide TV campaign ad for governor included a Confederate flag. Greg Stevens, the political consultant who made the 1993 TV ad, confirmed that the ad included a Confederate flag.

Allen has confirmed that the pin in his high school yearbook was a Confederate flag. Allen has said "it is possible" that he had a Confederate flag on his car in high school.[6]


Council of Conservative Citizens
The Nation reported in 2006 that Allen, as Governor, initiated contact with the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), one of the largest white supremacist groups.[52] The CCC descended from the segregationist White Citizens' Councils of the Jim Crow-era South.[53] At a 1996 Conservative Political Action Conference attended by Governor Allen and CCC leaders, Allen suggested that the group join together for a photograph.[52] The Nation obtained and published the resulting snapshot, which the CCC had printed in the summer 1996 edition of its Citizens Informer newsletter. The CCC is designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League, though the CCC disputes these claims.[54]


Macaca controversy
Main article: Virginia United States Senate election, 2006 - Macaca controversy
On Friday, August 11, 2006, at a campaign stop in Breaks, Virginia, near the Kentucky border, Allen twice used the word "macaca" to refer to S.R. Sidarth, who was filming the event as a "tracker" for the opposing Webb campaign. Sidarth is of Indian ancestry, but was born and raised in Fairfax County, Virginia. "Macaca" is considered a racial slur in francophone African nations, which led to speculation that Allen may have heard the epithet from his mother, a Francophone who grew up in French-colonial Tunisia. He stated that he had no idea what it meant, and that he apologied repeatedly for the miscue.[55]


Mother's religious and ethnic background
In the wake of the Macaca controversy, the Jewish periodical The Forward reported that in all likelihood, Allen's mother Etty Allen, neé Henrietta Lumbroso, was Jewish "from the august Sephardic Jewish Lumbroso family".[3], and that therefore by the Jewish legal rule of matrilineal descent, Allen himself would be considered Jewish. Although no mention is made of her mother's religion in Allen's sister's book, she does mention that the Catholic Church, before marrying the couple, required Allen's parents to agree that any children would be raised Catholic, and as a result they decided to be married by a justice of the peace in the home of a Jewish friend.[3]

At a debate on September 18, 2006 during which Allen mentioned that his grandfather was a Holocaust survivor, WUSA-TV reporter Peggy Fox followed up by asking Allen "It has been reported that your grandfather Felix, whom you were given your middle name for, was Jewish. Could you please tell us whether your forebears include Jews and, if so, at which point Jewish identity might have ended?"[56] Washington Post political writer Dana Milbank described Allen as "recoiling as if he had been struck," and "furiously" answering: "Why is that relevant—my religion, Jim's religion or the religious beliefs of anyone out there?"[57]. Allen also said that Fox was "making aspersions about people because of their religious beliefs"; Jewish leaders were divided over whether the characterization "aspersions" meant that Allen saw Jewish ancestry as something to be ashamed of.[58]

Previously, Allen defended himself against charges of racism related to the "macaca" incident by noting that his mother's father "was incarcerated by the Nazis in World War II", implying that that was an incident of racism from which he had learned it was wrong, an assertion he repeated again after the debate.[57]

The next day – September 19, 2006 – Allen issued a statement to The Forward confirming his mother's Jewish ancestry. The statement read:

I was raised as a Christian and my mother was raised as a Christian. And I embrace and take great pride in every aspect of my diverse heritage, including my Lumbroso family line’s Jewish heritage, which I learned about from a recent magazine article and my mother confirmed.[59]

According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Allen "said in an interview that he was aware of his heritage when asked about it" by Fox at the September 18 debate.[60] The Washington Post reported that Allen's mother feared retribution against her family if her ethnic background became public, and had originally asked Allen to keep that information private.[61]


Allegations of Allen's use of racial slur in college
In an interview with Meet the Press, Allen declared, in regard to his career as an athelete at college, "one of the things that you learn in football is that you don't care about someone's race or ethnicity or religion."[62]

On September 24, 2006, Salon.com Washington correspondent Michael Scherer reported that the magazine had interviewed nineteen of his teammates and that "[t]hree former college football teammates of Sen. George Allen say that the Virginia Republican repeatedly used an inflammatory racial epithet and demonstrated racist attitudes toward blacks during the early 1970s."[62] However, seven teammates have stated they do not recall any racist behavior on Allen's part. Four of these have made statements that were released by the Allen campaign.[63]

Dr. Ken Shelton, a radiologist in Hendersonville, North Carolina who played tight end for the University of Virginia football team when Allen was quarterback, said "Allen said he came to Virginia because he wanted to play football in a place where 'blacks knew their place,'" and that Allen "used the N-word on a regular basis back then."[62]

Two other sources reportedly confirmed the claims, including a third teammate contacted separately who "said he too remembers Allen using the word '******,' though he said he could not recall a specific conversation in which Allen used the term" but that his "impression of [Allen] was that he was a racist."[62] Shelton also said Allen "gave him the nickname 'Wizard,' because he shared a last name with Robert Shelton, who served in the 1960s as the imperial wizard of the United Klans of America, a group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.[62] Several other teammates recalled the 'Wizard' nickname differently, saying that Shelton earned it for his ability to catch seemingly uncatchable passes. Joe Gieck, 35-year trainer for the University of Virginia football team, recalled that "Ken Shelton got the ‘Wizard’ nickname for his pass catching ability and before George Allen came to the University of Virginia."

In addition, Shelton also recounted an episode 30 years ago in which he and Allen and a third friend shot a deer while hunting.[62] Shelton said Allen cut the deer's head off, asked directions to the home of the nearest black person, and shoved the head into that person's oversized mailbox. On Monday Senator Allen called Shelton's recollections "absolutely false," "pure fabrication" and "nonsense." Two Louisa County sheriff's deputies who were on the force in the early '70s said in interviews with the Daily Press that they recall no complaints about severed animal heads. Retired Lt. Robert Rigsby said he was in charge of investigations in the early '70s, and any such report would have gone through him. "I think that's a myth," Rigsby said. Another veteran officer, Deputy William Seay, also could recall no such incident. Authorities said Tuesday they did not know if records from so long ago would be preserved. A search of Louisa County's weekly newspaper, The Central Virginian, for the years 1972 through 1974 yielded no account of a severed animal head being discovered in a mailbox during the months that traditionally constitute deer season, October through January. The leader of the Louisa County chapter of the NAACP, Stewart Cooke, also said in a telephone interview that he had not heard of such an incident. [64]

A second witness, a former roomate of the now deceased third friend and former teammate of Allen's, came forward to confirm that he was told the mailbox story around the time of the alleged incident. George Beam, a nuclear engineering company manager who lives outside Lynchburg, Va., said that he remembered Lanahan describing the hunting trip with Allen and Shelton. Beam said that Lanahan had stated 'George and Kenny and I went hunting, and we decided at some time to cut off this deer head and stick it in a mailbox.' Beam said he does not remember Lanahan saying that the incident was racially motivated. He also said Lanahan did not specify who had the idea to put the deer head in the mailbox. [65]

Allen dismissed the claims as "ludicrously false,"[66] citing rebuttals by four other teammates. Critics contended that those teammates may have been biased and in any case did not directly rebut the accusations.[67] Virginia-based pundit Larry Sabato, an Allen classmate at the University of Virginia, weighed in on the controversy on the September 25 edition of Hardball, saying: "the fact is, [Allen] did use the n-word, whether he's denying it now or not. He did use it."[68][69] Prof. Sabato subsequently conceded that he had not actually heard these words from Sen. Allen.

On September 27, 2006 the New York Times published a report that Ellen G. Hawkins claimed to overhear Allen using the word, saying "she heard Mr. Allen use the slur repeatedly at a party on election night in 1976."[70] Allen’s campaign manager, Dick Wadhams, called the account by the woman, Ellen G. Hawkins, "another false accusation." Also reported was an anthropology professor, Christopher Taylor, who said that as a graduate student at the University of Virginia he heard Mr. Allen use the epithet.[70]

George Allen was responsible for the first African-American serving on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Roger Gregory, staying on the court when he had President George W. Bush renominate Gregory to the seat, and then led the effort to stop Democrats from filibustering the appointee.[71]


Sons of Confederate Veterans
On September 28, 2006 the Sons of Confederate Veterans criticized Allen when the group claimed Allen criticized Southern heritage.[72] The group criticized the Republican for saying he had been slow to grasp the pain that Old South symbols like the Confederate flag cause black people.