# John Murtha calls "western Pa" racist

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**Created:** [October 15, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/john-murtha-calls-western-pa-racist/200189 "2008-10-15T22:23:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/john-murtha-calls-western-pa-racist/200189/35 "2008-10-16T18:27:32Z")

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> [@Corrupt A Wish](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/corrupt-a-wish/38337/112):
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> do you guys realize that murhta is johnstown area. 219/56/22/422 is speckled w/ businesses he brought to western pa for defense contracts.
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> Johnstown is also kkk territory. Hell, the guy who shot larry flynt and crippled him shot and killed a negro in johnstown! even further in history, blacks were lynched in j-town for taking white jobs during the 18 and 1900’s. especially after the civil war w/ the influx of southern migration.

He has a strange shaped district. I’m actually in it. But I’m not racist. 🙂  
[http://www.murtha.house.gov/index.php?option=com\_content&task=view&id=351&Itemid=59](http://www.murtha.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=351&Itemid=59)

I’m pretty sure he was involved in getting business for the place out near Lemont Furnace- Argon ST. One of the guys on here and also a former coworker of mine works there.

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