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TexasTowelie

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Sun Oct 23, 2016, 06:37 AM Oct 2016

Billings candidate for Montana Legislature accused of racist remarks

A Billings candidate for state Legislature is being accused of racism by his former classmates at a conservative Christian university.

Republican Robert Saunders is being accused of telling a black college peer at Patrick Henry College that at an earlier point in America’s history, he would have owned her. Another peer said Saunders once said President Barack Obama and his family should be “sent back to the fields to pick cotton.”

The comments, including a video of Saunders’ female accuser, were posted on the Democratic gossip blog Montana Cowgirl.

Through interviews and email inspections, The Gazette confirmed Saunders’ classmates were the source of the allegations.

Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/government-and-politics/billings-candidate-accused-of-racist-remarks/article_d57752fe-95c6-5cb7-8133-1a2b84705756.html

Montana News is being cross-posted to http://democratsforever.freeforums.net/board/47/montana .

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