Black lawmakers call Biden surrogate's comments racist, demand former VP disavow

[Celerity]

38. unfortunately the MSM deems that analogy a fail by their very reporting

Harpootlian is an member of Biden's campaign finance committee

https://thehill.com/homenews/the-memo/477803-the-memo-four-democrats-race-for-iowa-prize

Link to tweet

he is also a bundler for Biden

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/16/biden-fundraising-2020-049062



https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-raises-more-than-100000-at-south-carolina-fundraiser/

Columbia, S.C. — Former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign raised more than $100,000 Saturday night at a fundraiser that brought together the upper echelon of South Carolina Democratic politics, an informed source told CBS News. The fundraiser was organized and hosted by state Sen. Richard "Dick" Harpootlian, a former state party chairman and one of the state's most influential powerbrokers.


Harpootlian was an official precinct captain for Biden

https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200204/iowa-releases-71-of-caucus-results-with-buttigieg-and-sanders-in-lead






Or are you going to now go down the Sanders primrose path and claim that the media is out to get Biden?

It was a shit thing to say, and all Biden needs to do is to disavow it.



Dick Harpootlian has long standing ties with Biden and a history of controversy.

here is a 2015 article

The Unofficial Spokesperson For Biden’s Unofficial Presidential Campaign Could Be A Problem

Joe Biden might run for president. He might not. But the consideration of a run has already drawn him closer to a person — former South Carolina Democratic chair Dick Harpootlian — who could be a liability the moment Biden made it official.

Evan McMorris-Santoro
BuzzFeed News Reporter

Posted on August 25, 2015, at 3:16 p.m. ET

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/evanmcsan/joe-biden-dick-harpootlian

WASHINGTON — For Vice President Biden, the presidential speculation that has lit up political coverage in recent weeks is all about South Carolina. And that means it's all about Biden's loudest, brashest, and most public supporter: former state Democratic Party Chair Dick Harpootlian.

That could be a problem.

Harpootlian is an old-school politico, with connections across South Carolina that are the envy of his fellow Democrats and a political acumen that draws him praise from the most prominent Republicans in the state. He's Biden's best ally should a presidential run be afoot: He's got money, connections and at least could conceptually put the South Carolina primary in play, according to observers in the state.

But, in an era in which an increasingly diversified Democratic coalition stresses the politics of inclusive language, Harpootlian's got a mouth on him — one that sometimes brings joy to Democrats, often brings eyerolls, and on many occasions has at least skirted with the line if not outright crossed it.

"Dick is like a great defensive end in football," South Carolina' last Democratic governor, Jim Hodges, a Hillary Clinton supporter, told BuzzFeed News in an interview earlier this month. "He's going to get you a lot of sacks but on occasion he's going to get you a roughness call."

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here is a WaPo article from when Biden first entered the race

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-vice-president-joe-biden-jumps-into-white-house-race/2019/04/25/093ff596-0aef-11e9-88e3-989a3e456820_story.html


A broader network of friends and former aides has signaled hope for months that Biden would enter the race so they can join his campaign, an advantage his aides hope will allow him to quickly pull together a large organization. An underwhelming fundraiser in his first two campaigns for president, he is likely to be aided this time by deep-pocketed donors he got to know during the Obama years.

“We need to get more pragmatic and understand that Joe Biden is the only real chance to win in 2020,” said Dick Harpootlian, former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party. “My concern is our nominee has to be able to carry Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan — and I don’t see that in any of these other folks.”

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