Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul says he’s standing by longtime aide Jack Hunter whom he appointed as his Media Director.
“Sen. Paul holds his staff to a standard that includes treating every individual with equal protection and respect, without exception,” spokeswoman Moira Bagley said in a statement.
Jack
Hunter has for years been a provocative talk radio host who called himself the
“Southern Avenger.” Before that, he was a member of the League of the South, a
group that advocates Southern secession.
For
years, Hunter wore a Mexican wrestling mask made out of the Confederate flag.
“The whole idea of the Southern Avenger was to be an anonymous superhero,” he
explained in a 2011 article in the Charleston City Paper, where he writes a
column. Hunter ditched the mask in 2007, when he moved from being a guest on a
local music station to talk radio.
