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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...
...Bush campaign spokesman Mark Goodin said that for Bentsen and Jackson "to insinuate that the furlough issue has racial overtones is absolutely ridiculous and stems from desperation politics...