Just what you want in a Presidental candidate (Ron Paul)...somemone motivated by "greed more than bigotry"

The controversy over Ron Paul's newsletter business erupted again on Friday -- just days before the Florida primary -- when three former associates of the libertarian presidential candidate contradicted his earlier claims of ignorance about the racist and anti-Semitic material published under his name. Although the Texas Congressman has previously insisted that he had been unaware of the newsletters' racial slurs, his former secretary Renae Hathaway, who still supports his candidacy, said: “It was his newsletter, and it was under his name, so he always got to see the final product. . . . He would proof it." Hathaway told the Washington Post that Paul was a "hands-on boss" who frequently visited the publication's offices despite his busy schedule as a Congressman and practicing physician.

Confirmation of Hathaway's recollections came from Eric Dondero Rittberg, another ex-aide, who told the Post that Paul approved all the final copy in his newsletters during the 1990s, when the racist articles appeared. As other former Paul associates have suggested, Rittberg said that the Congressman's motives involved greed more than bigotry. “The real big money came from some of that racially tinged stuff," Rittberg said, "but he also had to keep his libertarian supporters, and they weren’t at all comfortable with that." According to the Post's analysis, the newsletter business was so profitable that Paul went from personal indebtedness to a net worth of more than $5 million.