A Texas group has made billboards saying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a statement similar to one made once by Republican congressional candidate Charlotte Bergmann in Memphis.
In both cases, billboards tell people that Dr. King was a Republican, and that they should vote Republican too.
The man behind the billboards in Texas, Claver Kamau-Imani, said his group whose site is RagingElephants.org, tries to court minority voters to the Republican Party.
“The use of Dr. King, because of him being an icon in the community, we feel would be most effective. That’s why we used it. We have the documentation to back the claims we’re making on the billboard,” Kamau-Imani says.
Others would question the claim. For example, PolitiFact rated Charlotte Bergmann’s billboard “false.”
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