Lee Lucas, NJ GOP Assembly Candidate: "If You Want To Act Like Niggers, Go Back To Paulsboro"

There's one Republican that New Jersey's GOP brass does not want to see winning office this fall.

State Republican leaders are trying to get 3rd District Assembly candidate Lee Lucas to exit the race.

They take issue with him because a September 2006 police report quoted him using a racial slur during a dispute with his neighbors. Lucas told neighbors, "if you want to act like niggers, go back to Paulsboro," according to a 2006 Greenwich Township police report.

"Yeah, I said that," a police officer said Lucas told him. "It's my freedom of speech. I can say what I want while I'm on my property."

Lucas admits using the slur and said it isn't wrong to say in certain contexts. He has also been criticized for proposing drastic cuts in poverty and school programs and saying poor people have "too many children."

Lucas said he won't give up the place he won on the ballot.

Assembly Republican leader Alex DeCroce said Lucas won't get any campaign support from the party.

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[donaldmills]

The Gloucester County Times is reporting that the police report indicates that everyone involved in the altercation was white. Both the candidate and his neighbors.

[acanthus]

Ok...so?

[donaldmills]

The GOP in New Jersey has a long history of this kind of thing. Assemblyman DeCroce's executive director recently caused a controversy by using an anti-gay slur and his field director worked for a controversial fringe candidate for President.