08/27/2009 11:54 AM | Via: Charlotte Observer

U.S. Rep. apologizes over `great white hope'

A freshman Republican congresswoman apologized Thursday for telling a gathering in her district that the GOP was still searching for a "great white hope" to stop President Barack Obama's political agenda. Rep. Lynn Jenkins used the phrase during an Aug. 19 forum as... read the full story

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Republican Party [...] for telling a gathering in her district that the GOP was still searching for a "great white hope" to [...] during an Aug. 19 forum as she discussed the Republican Party 's future and tried to reassure members that the [...]

The Associated Press [...] anyone," Jenkins spokeswoman Mary Geiger told The Associated Press . "That was not the intent in any way, shape or [...] and four years in the Kansas Legislature. --- Associated Press writer Glen Johnson in Oak Bluffs, Mass., [...]

Congress [...] the GOP's future, with Democrats in control of Congress and Obama elected the nation's first black [...]

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