"Racist, Homophobic" Tweets By GOP Candidate says DFL

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Moments before a Democratic news conference to call him out, Republican candidate for the Minnesota State Senate Mike Parry issued a vague and weak apology for "past tweets".

Parry had twittered about President Obama, calling him "a Power Hungry Arrogant Black Man". It was one of 33 tweets that were later deleted from the account. Parry says he did not do the deleting.

"I sincerely apologize for past tweets which were written in haste and out of the frustration I felt for the out of control spending in Washington. Given the fragile state of our economy and the kind of out of control and wasteful spending we're seeing from Democrats, the people of Senate District 26 must have an election about the future. While volunteers to my campaign removed several Tweets without my knowledge, I take full responsibility for all mistakes in my past tweets. I will never stop fighting to make the lives of all Minnesotans better."

In this video, DFL party chair Brian Melendez gives details about the twitters and … Distributed by Tubemogul.

Duration : 10 min 9 sec

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