Rand Paul

FLASHBACK: Paul Campaign Spokesman Resigned Over Racism On Myspace Page

Justin Elliott | May 20, 2010, 2:44PM

Chris Hightower (left), former spokesman for Rand Paul, and his band Commander

Controversy is swirling over Rand Paul's doctrinaire libertarian take on the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. But this is not the first time the Kentucky Republican's campaign has hit a bump in racially sensitive territory.

In December, Chris Hightower, the spokesman for Paul's senate campaign, was forced to resign after a liberal Kentucky blog discovered that his MySpace page had a comment posted around Martin Luther King Day that read: "HAPPY N***ER DAY!!!" above what appears to be a historical photo of the lynching of a black man.

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