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FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH DELIVERS REMARKS AT FUNERAL OF CORETTA SCOTT KING, LITHONIA, GEORGIA

BUSH: I respected Coretta, like her husband, because they rejected race-baiting by those who opposed as well as those who supported the civil rights movement.


SCOTT REED, REPUBLICAN CONSULTANT, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, APRIL 19, 2004, COMMENTING ON 1988 "WILLIE HORTON" AD PROMOTING GEORGE BUSH AND ATTACKING HIS OPPONENT, MICHAEL DUKAKIS

"When Dukakis was governor of Massachusetts, they gave weekend passes to convicts, and this guy raped a woman and stabbed her companion. It didn’t say a black man killed a white woman, but that was the message you got. Race is effective because it divides.The reality is that negative ads are intended to do one thing. They’re called wedge commercials. They divide. You’re not looking to boost turnout and include people in your campaign. You’re hoping to actually send people home."