Posted on 10/02/2011 3:58:45 PM PDT by tobyhill
Gov. Rick Perry's team pushed back Sunday on a Washington Post story charging that a racial epithet was displayed for decades on a hunting property leased by the Texas governor's family.
Perry's team says that the governor's father Ray painted over the name -- a holdover from the area's long cowboy culture -- in the early 1980s. That conflicts with the account of a total of seven sources -- who spoke on the condition of anonymity -- who told the Post that the offensive name of the hunting grounds was written on a flat slab of rock at the entrance to the property and was visible during the 1980s and 1990s when Perry launched his political career. One source said the word could be seen as late as 2008.
In a response to First Read, Perry Communications Director Ray Sullivan disputed the accuracy of those accounts.
"The rock was obscured in 1983 or 1984 and remained so," he said. "Named interviewees in the story corroborate that. The story has no named sources seeing the name on the rock in later 80s and 90s claim and those unnamed sources contradict one another."
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I seem to remember the rock being at the fence...where there is a cattle guard. (Cattle guard is a series of pipes spaced far enough apart that a cow would step through the gap...therefore they won’t cross it.)
Cain has arrived! Just look at the increased trolling, spreading of falsehoods and twisting of facts from people. Well done....Raising Cain 2012!!!
The only increased trolling I see is from people trying to accuse other freepers of being racists and making racist comments. If you think that’s how to get support for Cain you are sadly mistaken.
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