Alright JD, from wikipedia, do not delete this, read it. God forbid you would have to read more than one paragraph. I copy and paste this stuff so i can inform you. Its called information.
1996 campaign controversy
Further information: Texas's 14th Congressional district
In 1996, Paul was re-elected to Congress after a tougher battle than
he had faced in the 1970s. Since the Republicans had taken over both
houses of Congress in the 1994 election, Paul entered the race hopeful that his Constitutionalist goals of shrinking government size would have more influence,[34] but he quickly concluded "there was no sincere effort" toward his goals.[14] The Republican National Committee focused instead on encouraging Democrats to switch parties, as Paul's primary opponent, incumbent Greg Laughlin, had done in 1995. The party threw its full weight behind Laughlin, including support from House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Texas Governor George W. Bush, and the National Rifle Association.
Paul responded by running newspaper ads quoting Gingrich's harsh
criticisms of Laughlin's Democratic voting record 14 months earlier.[39] Paul won the primary with support from baseball pitcher, constituent, and friend Nolan Ryan (who served as honorary campaign chair and made ad appearances) and tax activist Steve Forbes.[10][33]
Paul's Democratic opponent in the fall election, trial lawyer Charles "Lefty" Morris, lost in a close margin, despite assistance from the AFL-CIO.
Paul's large contributor base outraised Morris two-to-one, giving the
third-highest amount of individual contributions received by any House
member (behind Gingrich and Bob Dornan).[51] It became the third time Paul had been elected to Congress as a non-incumbent.[10]
Morris ran numerous attacks, including publicizing issues of the Ron Paul Survival Report (published by Paul since 1985) that included derogatory comments concerning race and other politicians.[52][53]
Alluding to a 1992 study finding that "of black men in Washington ...
about 85 percent are arrested at some point in their lives",[54][55]
the newsletter proposed assuming that "95% of the black males in
Washington DC are semi-criminal or entirely criminal", and stated that
"the criminals who terrorize our cities ... largely are" young black
males and "black men commit [crimes] all out of proportion to their
numbers".[56][57]
In 2001, Paul took "moral responsibility" for the comments printed in his newsletter under his name, telling Texas Monthly magazine that the comments were written by a ghostwriter and did not represent his views. He said newsletter remarks referring to U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan
(calling her a "fraud" and a "half-educated victimologist") were "the
saddest thing, because Barbara and I served together and actually she
was a delightful lady."[58]
The magazine defended Paul's decision to protect the writer's
confidence in 1996, concluding, "In four terms as a U.S. congressman
and one presidential race, Paul had never uttered anything remotely
like this."[33] In 2007, with the quotes resurfacing, the New York Times Magazine concurred that Paul denied the allegations "quite believably, since the style diverges widely from his own."[10]
Now, who do you believe? JD, who is from Canada? Or Ron Paul himself?
