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Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan., responds to questions from the public Thursday at a health care forum at the Franklin County Office Annex.

Jenkins says she supported resolution, didn’t read it

House measure referenced phrase ‘great white hope,’ its racial context

By The Herald Staff

U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins has acknowledged she didn’t read a resolution that refrenced the phrase “great white hope,” her press secretary said Monday.

Jenkins stirred controversy recently for using the phrase “great white hope” to describe Republican’s search for a new leader, and said she didn’t know it had a negative connotation.

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