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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (6237)	12/24/2011 10:26:34 AM
From: Paul Smith	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

I come up empty His newsletters have been quoted extensively in recent articles. It is difficult to believe that you have not seen the racist material (at a minimum). The pro-Obama media has been all over it. In this case they look correct - Ron Paul appears to have a very dark past full of published racism.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (6237)	12/24/2011 5:46:35 PM
From: Paul Smith	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

(Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich on Friday urged rival Ron Paul to explain his links to newsletters two decades ago that carried the Texas congressman's name and contained racist, anti-homosexual and anti-Israel rants. "I think that Congressman Paul has to explain his own situation and how he could have had a decade of newsletters that had his name on it that he apparently wasn't aware of," Gingrich said. "I think that somebody should say to him 'OK, how much money did you make from the newsletters?' These things are really nasty, and he didn't know about it? Wasn't aware of it? But he's sufficiently ready to be president? It strikes me it raises some fundamental questions about him." Paul, leading the race for the January 3 Republican caucuses vote in Iowa, the first nominating contest in the nation, has come under pressure after revelations of possible links to far-right comments. A direct-mail solicitation for Paul's political and investment newsletters in the 1990s warned of a "coming race war in our big cities" and of a "federal-homosexual cover-up" to play down the impact of AIDS. The eight-page letter, which appears to carry Paul's signature at the end, also warns that the U.S. government's redesign of currency to include different colors - a move aimed at thwarting counterfeiters - actually was part of a plot to allow the government to track Americans using the "new money." reuters.com