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Dr. Ron Paul who served in Congress in the late 1970's and early 1980's
in running for the 14th Congressional District in Texas. The district runs
from Austin to the Gulf Coast and is 11 percent black.

He is an obstetrician from Surfside, Texas, who defeated Rep. Greg
Laughlin, Republican, of West Columbia and is running against Democrat
Charles Morris of Bee Cove who is a lawyer. Dr Paul also has been a
member of the Libertarian Party.

According to the Dallas Morning News he produces the Ron Paul Political
Report and distributes it to 7,000 to 8,000 subscribers. A phone call
to the newsletter's toll free number was answered by his campaign staff.
He has published the newsletter since 1985.

Gary Bledsoe, President of the Texas NAACP, has urged Republicans to
renounce their candidate. In commenting on a 1992 study by the National
Center on Incarceration and Alternatives, a criminal justice think
tank in Virginia, Dr. Paul said "Given the inefficiences of what
Washington DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think
we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city
are semi-criminal or entirely criminal." He also said black teenagers
can be "unbelievably fleet of foot" when snatching purses.

In an interview he said he did not know how his newsletter came to be
included in a directory by the Heritage Front, a neo-nazi group based
in Toronto. The newsletter was listed on the internet under the
directory heading "Racialists and Freedom Fighters."