On Wednesday, the state of Maine’s Republican Party Chair Charlie Webster told Portland’s WCHS6 that he was surprised to see all of the black people who showed up to vote last Tuesday:
“In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on Election Day. I’m not talking about 15 or 20. I’m talking hundreds,” he said, clearly flabbergasted. “”Everybody has a right to vote, but nobody in [these] towns knows anyone who’s black. “How did that happen? I don’t know. We’re going to find out.”
Later on, Webster backtracked better than Michael Jackson when he offered a sort of mea culpa for his word usage: “I’m not politically correct, and maybe I shouldn’t have said these voters were black, but anyone who suggests I have a bias toward any race or group, frankly, that’s sleazy.”