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CINCINNATI (AP) — The Ohio state Senate president acknowledged Sunday that he made an anti-Semitic remark at a fund-raiser earlier this year, and later apologized to Jewish leaders when he realized that some in the audience were offended.
Doug White, a Republican from Manchester, said he was making a joke about a rodeo during the event in Cleveland before the Nov. 5 election when he said “We need to jew them down,†the Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
White said Sunday that he could not remember exactly in what context he used the phrase.
It was not immediately clear what White meant. The Webster's New World College Dictionary includes the phrase among its slang entries and defines it as bargaining for better terms in a business transaction.
“I had no idea of the sensitivity at that point,†White said.
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