By ROBERT T. GARRETT / The Dallas Morning News
rtgarrett@dallasnews.com
AUSTIN - The second most powerful member of the House has
apologized to the Anti-Defamation League for giving colleagues a
document that contains what the league called "outrageous
anti-Semitic material."
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Warren Chisum, R-Pampa,
sent a letter Friday to the North Texas-Oklahoma office of the
league, which works to eradicate hatred of Jews and other
minorities.
"I certainly meant no harm or disrespect for the religious views
held by any person or group and for having done so, I am truly
sorry," Mr. Chisum wrote.
[...]
Mr. Chisum said "the document in question does not accurately
reflect my views." He did not elaborate.
Nor did he mention the Atlanta-area Fair Education Foundation. Mr.
Bridges' memo contained links to the foundation's Web site, which
asserts that the universe revolves around the Earth. The site also
depicts theories on evolution as a plot by "Jewish physicists" and
Hollywood moguls to brainwash people.
The league had demanded that Mr. Chisum not only apologize but
repudiate the material Mr. Bridges circulated.
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