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James DeCocq, Candidate for State Senate Reacts To Rep. Andres Carson

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For Immediate Release

Contact: Mayra Etayo
305.505.7089
info@jamesdecocq.com

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James DeCocq, Candidate for State Senate Reacts to Dem. Congressman Andres Carson’s Comments: Tea Party Wants to See Black Americans ‘Hanging on a Tree’

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Orlando, FL (September 1, 2011) – James DeCocq, candidate for Florida State Senate, issued a statement today regarding Indiana’s 7th Congressional District Democrat, Congressman Andres Carson’s recent comments to the Congressional Black Caucus in Miami, FL.

“The comments made by Indiana Congressman Andres Carson were deplorable. As a Candidate for State Office, I believe that for anyone, but particularly a United States Representative, to make comments like conservative members of Congress would ‘love to see us [blacks] as second-class citizens,’ and ’some of them in Congress right now of this tea party movement would love to see you and me [inaudible] hanging on a tree’, is nothing more than hate-speech at its worst. And, as an Indiana native, I am appalled that a Hoosier Congressman can not only think this way, but actually articulate it in a pep rally fashion with a racist cry.

It is past time that we eliminate these despicable methods from politics, and really question who we allow to represent us. There is no room in any level of government for these types of inflammatory bashings which accomplish nothing more than to pit community against community, neighbor against neighbor, and voter against voter.”

About James DeCocq for Florida State Senate, District 24: James DeCocq is a small business owner with extensive experience in building and sustaining cost efficient municipal governments. He is a graduate of the University of Miami with a degree in marine biology. He is a second generation Belgium immigrant. He is married to Mayra Etayo-DeCocq, daughter of Cuban immigrants. The couple has one daughter and the family resides in Avalon Park.

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