T'ain't learnt nuthin': II

Paul Ryan's "urban voters" and- bonus points here- the argument for lax gun laws, all in one speech:

The finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, who also was Michigan's former GOP chairman, was captured on video telling a tea party meeting that voters in Detroit get picked up at pool halls and barbershops and bused "from precinct to precinct where they vote multiple times."

Ron Weiser also said at the Aug. 9 meeting in Milford that someone not from Detroit would not want to go to the polls there at 6:30 a.m. "without a side arm."

 In a phone interview Friday evening with the Free Press, Weiser, an Ann Arbor businessman who was running for a seat on the University of Michigan Board of Regents when he appeared at the tea party gathering, initially said he didn't recall making the comments and didn't think he would have used that kind of language. He later acknowledged making the remarks.

Matt Frendewey, a spokesman for the Michigan Republican Party, said that accusing Weiser of racism is offensive and "doesn't speak to who he is" and the work he has done for the country, the state of Michigan and the city of Detroit.

He said critics are taking Weiser's remarks out of context. "He was talking about politics," and release of the video "is simply a political attack," likely related to the right-to-work issue, Frendewey said.

Care to contextualize Wesier's comments properly? Here's a link to the video of him speaking.