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Cattledog

(6,646 posts)
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 07:13 PM Dec 2016

NY Times: Carson never lived in public housing.

"Using information from a close friend of Ben Carson, the nominee for housing secretary, an earlier version of this article misstated that Mr. Carson spent part of his childhood in public housing. The friend, Armstrong Williams, said Monday that Mr. Carson had never lived in government housing."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/us/politics/ben-carson-housing-urban-development-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=photo-spot-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

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NY Times: Carson never lived in public housing. (Original Post) Cattledog Dec 2016 OP
LOLOL Skittles Dec 2016 #1
Huckabee assumed that Carson did... just because he's African American! Not surprised... Buckeye_Democrat Dec 2016 #4
Well what the heck do you expect from Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #5
But he did stay at a really crappy Holiday Inn Express one time. tanyev Dec 2016 #2
but huckabee chastised 'fancy nancy' and called her a racist or stupid using just that logic spanone Dec 2016 #3
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
5. Well what the heck do you expect from
Mon Dec 5, 2016, 07:30 PM
Dec 2016

ignorant idiot. Maybe he should read the crap he has been Preaching in Hope Arkansas,

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