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At this point, having the lethal weapon in your corner could prove lethal to your political aspirations. Just ask Tom McClintock.
Up until this week, the California state senator, now running for lieutenant governor, had been including an endorsement letter from Mel Gibson in his mailings to potential voters.
But now, a week and a half after Gibson's booze-fueled anti-Semitic rant during a drunk-driving arrest, McClintock is publicly disavowing his ties to the Lethal Weapon star.
McClintock has said he will no longer send out the missive (available for viewing in its entirety on the Smoking Gun Website), in which Gibson solicited constituents' donations. The Oscar winner wrote that he supported the Republican candidate in November's race because McClintock "stood solidly for principles that might not be politically correct--but that were right and true."
Presumably, those don't include blaming the "f--king Jews" for "being responsible for all the wars in the world," as Gibson infamously stated to the deputy who pulled the actor-director over on July 28.
Gibson, 50, has been charged with two misdemeanors of driving under the influence. He has issued two statements apologizing for his behavior and denying that he was either anti-Semitic or a bigot and also entered "an ongoing program of recovery" for his alcoholism.
Nonetheless, the remarks made Gibson a political hot potato, and hence the letter's withdrawal, says McClintock spokesman Stan Devereux.
There was no immediate comment from Gibson's camp on the dissing.
Gibson had been one of McClintock's most impassioned supporters. "A government that was founded to protect our fundamental God-given rights is now becoming destructive of those rights," Gibson wrote, calling the candidate a "powerful engine for governmental reform" who was "willing to fight for basic American principles for all Californians."
McClintock's move also follows a report in Sunday's edition of Australia's Herald Sun that claimed the actor campaigned in 1987 for a friend who was a candidate for the Australian League of Rights, what the newspaper characterized as a "far right group notorious for its anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denials."
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