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David Carlson is a Republican running for the Minnesota State Senate in Eagan.  Carlson is pretty active on twitter, particularly during Vikings games, but he might want to be a little more careful before hitting “update.”  Last month Carlson retweeted a tweet that included a racial slur directed at President Obama. A screen shot of the tweet is available after the jump (but please be warned that the tweet does contain a racial slur and may be NSFW).  Carlson has removed the tweet from his twitter feed.

If that weren’t bad enough, Carlson decided to throw some rocks in his glass house, using twitter to publically criticize fellow Republican State Senate candidate Mike Parry for his (nearly identical) twitter troubles.  Parry, while a candidate for the State Senate seat vacated by Dick Day, got in some hot water for writing that President Obama was a “Power Hungry Arrogant Black Man” and subsequently scrubbing the tweet (and forty others) from twitter.  Carlson responded by tweeting: “Good thing Team Carlson does not condone such behavior on twitter.” Carlson appears to have had second thoughts about this tweet as well, as it also has been removed.  Fortunatley, a loyal reader has preserved the tweet for posterity and it is also available after the jump.

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