{"id":8734,"date":"2011-10-12T01:47:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T01:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=8734"},"modified":"2011-10-12T01:47:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T01:47:09","slug":"from-cheney-to-perry-racist-hunting-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2011\/10\/from-cheney-to-perry-racist-hunting-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"From Cheney to Perry: Racist Hunting Clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The flap over the racist name of the hunting lodge that Texas Governor Rick Perry\u2019s family leased is not the first time hunting and racism have conspired to tar a politician.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2007, a New York Daily News photographer spotted a Confederate flag hanging inside the Clove Valley Rod & Gun Club garage while Vice President Dick Cheney was happily blasting away at its pheasants, ducks or Hungarian partridges. (Management wouldn\u2019t say which he was shooting.)<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rev. Al Sharpton, the New York civil rights leader who recently became an MSNBC host, demanded that Cheney \u201cleave immediately, denounce the club and apologize for going to a club that represents lynching, hate and murder to black people.\u201d Cheney did none of the suggestions though his spokeswoman, Megan Mitchell, said neither Cheney nor anyone on his staff saw such a flag at the hunt club.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many remember Cheney\u2019s 2006 Texas hunting mishap in which he shot 78-year-old attorney Harry Whittington in the face instead of a quail, but fewer know about his hunting when he hits<\/em> his targets.<\/span><\/p>\n

A fan of canned, put-and-take hunting, Cheney sank 70 pheasants (his hunting party sank 417) and an undisclosed number of ducks during a 2003 trip to Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township, PA. And the next year, on the day of the 2004 presidential election, the Veep treated himself to a victory pheasant hunt in South Dakota\u2013that wasn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cheney was on his way to Pierre, SD on Air Force One\u2013thank you taxpayers- where a motorcade sped him to an unnamed Gettysburg area hunting lodge, even before Sen. John Kerry\u2019s concession speech. But, Cheney\u2019s defibrillator couldn\u2019t keep up with the thrill kills and he had to be rushed to George Washington Medical Center in Washington DC where he was hospitalized for shortness of breath. (Late night comics say he had a reserved parking space at the ER.)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSorry we ruined your Saturday,\u201d Lynne Cheney told reporters, who probably also had reserved parking spaces. The excursion cost local law enforcement officials $32,000 to protect Cheney\u2019s motorcade\u2013which included 15 sport utility vehicles and an ambulance, no jokes please\u2013divert school buses and guard his hotel, reported local papers.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to a Confederate flag the exclusive club, which costs $150,000 a year to join, features a male-only clubhouse, said published reports. Racism, sexism, cruelty to animals, taxpayer abuse\u2013Cheney\u2019s trip had something to offend everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course many in Texas are defending the name of Perry\u2019s hunting lodge as local vernacular, perhaps like the \u201ccoonass power\u201d former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards used to get elected, which refered to Cajuns. Texans also point out the lodge is now owned by a charity called the Hendrick Home for Children. Sweet.<\/span><\/p>\n

But ignore the lodge\u2019s name and there is still a racism cloud over Perry\u2019s head thanks to his hunting body and \u201cgood friend,\u201d Ted Nugent, who has been banned from concerts because of his Tourette-like use of the n-word.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nugent was a featured performer at Perry\u2019s black-tie re-inauguration gala in 2007 reports the Daily Beast\u2019s Wayne Barrett. \u201dHe appeared as the final act using machine guns as props, wearing a cut-off T-shirt emblazoned with the Confederate flag and shouting what the Associated Press called \u2018offensive remarks about non-English speakers.\u2019\u201d Oops.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nugent\u2019s spectacle also had something to offend everyone and a Perry spokesman disavowed it by saying the governor, \u201cdidn\u2019t put any stipulation of what he would play.\u201d Maybe Nugent was sponsored by the Hendrick Home for Children too.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fuente<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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