Bill White (D) scoffs at Farouk Shami’s (D) racism claim
Campaigning in San Marcos on Saturday, gubernatorial candidate Bill White scoffed at his Democratic Party primary opponent’s recent claim that White’s mention of his San Antonio birthplace in campaign commercials is racist.
Born a Palestinian near Jerusalem, hair product magnate Farouk Shami told a McAllen crowd this week, “I take that as a racist comment. … It doesn’t matter where we’re from. I’m a better Texan than he could ever be.”
Asked about the dustup, White, a former Houston mayor, said, “I never thought it was racist to tell people where I was born… To use a term like racist so casually is something questionable to me.”
Interviewed after a speech before more than 100 people at Cafe on the Square downtown, White also dismissed a recent Rasmussen poll that showed him trailing even former Wharton County GOP chair Debra Medina, a Tea Party movement star, in the general election.
Read more @ the San Marcos Mercury.
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