Limbaugh Admits He Shares Strictly White Country Club with John Raese

[kpete]

Limbaugh Admits He Shares Strictly White Country Club with John Raese

Senate candidate John Raese, vying to replaced deceased Senator Robert Byrd in West Virginia's delegation, may have inadvertently been outed as a member of a problematic Florida country club by no other than Rush Limbaugh.

According to the Huffington Post's Sam Stein, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/19/john-raese-country-club_n_768711.html ]Limbaugh told his audience today that he and Raese have lockers opposite one another in the locker room of "prominent local club" where Limbaugh plays golf.

Limbaugh is a member of the Everglades Club in Palm Beach, which is infamous for having virtually no membership rules but still managing to keep from ever letting a single African-American join through 2008.

Among the more unflattering aspects that surfaced (when Limbaugh made a bid to buy the St. Louis Rams) was that while the club had no formal membership guidelines, as of 2008 it had never let in a black member and there had only been one Jewish member in its history.

Everglades has, in addition, not been without its share of political controversies. The New York Post reported that: "Joseph Kennedy quit the Everglades when his son became president." And in 1996, Georgia GOP Senate candidate Guy Millner resigned his membership in the middle of a tight U.S. Senate race against Max Cleland.

Raese refused to comment, claiming that the questions were politically motivated.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/live/tpm-midterms-wire/#541

[kenny blankenship]

1. Ugh... But in WV, would news like this hurt Raese or help him?

[karynnj]

7. Interesting question - any WV (or near by state) answers would be interesting to hear

But an exclusive FLORIDA country club reinforces that he is a member of the aristocracy - born into wealth. The question is whether the many living in poverty or near poverty will resent that - especially when he is running on a platform that will give people like him an even greater share of the pie.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Limpbaugh is an example of the fillthy rich

[Lint Head]

4. Filthy for sure.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. yes!

[glitch]

3. Strictly white allows pudgy pink now?

What am I asking, of course they do. I am sure they also allow leathery orange.

[Historic NY]

6. He just got his hood starched.