DETROIT (AP) ? A video recorded secretly during a tea party meeting this summer in Michigan shows the finance chair for the Republican National Committee making disparaging comments about voters in Detroit.
The Detroit Free Press reports (http://on.freep.com/ZaRArP ) Sunday that it obtained video of Ron Weiser's Aug. 9 talk in Milford, northwest of Detroit, from a Democrat shadowing a Republican congressional candidate.
Weiser said Detroit's influence on state elections has decreased because the city's population has dropped and there's no longer a strong mayoral "machine" that can get some voters "to stop playing pool and drinking beer in the pool hall." He added: "And it does make a difference."
Some Detroit leaders and state Democrats say the statements are racist.
Weiser told the newspaper that his comments were "never intended to be racist."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/video-rnc-finance-chair-blasts-detroit-voters-184714640.html
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