Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich Push Welfare, Food Stamp Falsehoods

Racial drama from the presidential campaign seems never ending. At the center is government benefits programs. Rick Santorum was clearly caught on video connecting a general discussion about benefits solely to African Americans.

Now Santorum is saying that he didn't make the comment at all, it just sounded like he did, and by the way he has worked with black people. And then there's Newt Gingrich who just reentered the fray to say that he was going to tell the NAACP convention to demand paychecks not food stamps. Since they and others like the CBC have been laser-focused on jobs, I wonder how they will receive Gingrich's suggestion that he needs to guide them in that direction?

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This article was originally published in The Grio.