Dr. Ken Shelton, a radiologist who lives in North Carolina, is one of two men who allege that Virginia Sen. George Allen used racist epithets when he knew him in the 1970s. The New York Times reports:
Mr. Shelton…said that on a hunting trip Mr. Allen had sought out the home of an African-American and affixed the head of a dead deer to the mailbox. He also said Mr. Allen had called him Wizard, for Robert Shelton, who used the title as a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
?He wanted to know if I was related,? Mr. Shelton recalled in an interview. ?I said no.?
Allen denies the allegations.
Update 8:55 a.m.: Salon, which originally reported the allegations, says Shelton (who lives in Hendersonville) in the past has been registered to vote both as a Democrat and as an independent, and four years ago contributed $1,000 to Rep. Charles Taylor’s opponent, Sam Neill.
