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US SENATOR/OBAMA RACE ROWBack
[Published: Monday January 11 2010]

US Senator 'won't resign' over Obama race remarks

Washington, 11 Jan-(ANA)-The Democratic leader of the US Senate, Harry Reid, says he will stay in office despite calls for his resignation.

Racially insensitive remarks he made privately about President Barack Obama appeared in a new book.

Senator Reid has apologised for saying two years ago that America would accept Mr Obama because he is "light skinned" and doesn't have a "negro dialect".

President Obama has accepted his apology, but Republicans say Senator Reid should step down.

President Obama said on Saturday that as far as he was concerned the issue was now closed.

But several prominent Republicans have suggested that's not good enough.

Senator Reid spent much of the weekend calling African-American politicians and civic leaders and several have joined senior Democrats in expressing their support for him.

He is a popular target for Republicans as he is vital to President Obama's legislative agenda and he is facing a tough re-election battle in his home state of Nevada.

But Senator Reid's office insists he won't step down. (ANA)

FA/ANA/11 January 2010----

 

 


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