Word: furloughs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bentsen, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, told a television interviewer he thought the Bush campaign was making a racist appeal by focusing on Willie Horton Jr., a Black convicted murderer who escaped in 1986 from a Massachusetts prison furlough...
Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Lloyd Bentsen and the Rev. Jesse Jackson yesterday accused Republican nominee George Bush's campaign of injecting racism into the presidential campaign by pounding Democrat Michael Dukakis over the Massachusetts prison furlough issue...
...Willie Horton example is designed to create the most horrible psycho-sexual fears," Jackson said. "The furlough ad with black and brown faces rotating in and out of jail, the use of the Jackson-Dukakis ticket symbolism, which is distortion, referring to me as a Chicago hustler...there have been a number of rather ugly race-conscious signals sent from that campaign...
Dukakis made no mention of the prison furlough issue in a short statement after the breakfast. He said only that it had been a "good, constructive meeting" and that he was pleased by the Black leaders' commitment to his campaign...
Given the predominance of emotion over intellect among the American electorate, such a cerebral defense of the Massachusetts furlough program would probably be a political loss for Dukakis. Indeed, his best response to Bush's below-the-belt attacks is to sling the mud back and ask why Bush "allowed" the furloughed federal prisoner to roam about and terrorize Arizona...