Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Curtis Coleman said today his
comment that traveling to Southeast Arkansas one “might as well get a
visa and shot” was not meant to be derogatory, but rather as a metaphor
for the diversity of Arkansas.

The Little Rock businessman who has formed an committee to explore
a run for Democratic incumbent Blanche Lincoln’s seat next year made the
comments Tuesday night to a Benton County Republican group in the
prosperous northwest corner of the state. Southeast Arkansas is largely
agricultural and economically depressed.....

Coleman said he was trying to “accentuate or maybe even celebrate
the enormous diversity we have in Arkansas.”

“I’ve done a lot of international traveling since the 70’s, and
when going to a new and different land, you had to have a visa and
shots. I only meant it to show the tremendous differences you see from
one corner of the state to the other. I love Southeast Arkansas and
meant it only as a metaphor,” he said.

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Next for Colemen? A trip to Argentina?