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Ron Paul's campaign denied Friday that the candidate had any knowledge of a newsletter advertisement carrying his signature that warned of a looming "race war in our big cities" and a "federal-homosexual cover-up" of the AIDS crisis.

"Dr. Paul did not write that mail piece and disavows its content,” spokesman Jesse Benton said in an email to Talking Points Memo.

Benton also emphasized that comments by Paul's Iowa chairman, Drew Ivers, were not the official position of the campaign. I! vers told Reuters that Paul took responsibility for the content being published under his name, even if he did not "embrace" the entirety of the content.

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