WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUP SAYS RON PAUL DID NOT VOTE FOR KING HOLIDAY

We can’t thank the Council of Conservative Citizens enough for putting this out there and doing our job for us. Now we can lay to rest all the BS about how Ron Paul  loved Martin Luther King, Jr. so much he voted to have his birthday a national holiday.

One People’s Project

A white supremacist group whose members have been known to be among Presidential Candidate Ron Paul’s biggest supporters posted an article to dispel a debate about whether or not the Congressman ever voted for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday, noting that he never did.

“There are many false and conflicting statements online about GOP Presidential candidates and the King holiday,” an email from the Council of Conservative Citizens (C of CC) read. “CofCC.org dug up the actual votes. Paul and (Former House Speaker Newt) Gingrich voted against the King holiday in 1979. Then in 1983, Gingrich voted for it. Paul and (Arizona Senator John) McCain voted against it.”

The findings were noted in an article found on the C of CC website, published the morning after Ron Paul came in second in the New Hampshire Primary. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a federal holiday by President Ronald Reagan who reluctantly signed it into law in 1983 after both houses of Congress voted for the measure in a veto-proof majority. The holiday will be observed this year next Monday, Jan. 16.

During Saturday night’s New Hampshire presidential debate, Paul was asked about the controversial racist newsletters he had published in the 90s, Paul insisted as he has that he did not write the remarks that were in question, and that he was not the racist many have inferred he was. “(O)ne of my heroes is Martin Luther King because he practiced the libertarian principle of peaceful resistance and peaceful civil disobedience, as did Rosa Parks.”

there is particular anger expressed about Martin Luther King Day being signed into law. “Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for Martin Luther King,” the article read. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressman. What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it! We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.” In the past, the newsletter also termed King a “pro-Communist philanderer.”

House Vote #578 (Nov. 13, 1978)

House Vote #289 (Aug. 2, 1983)