Woman says Allen used racial slur repeatedly

“I had thought about it since I had heard that George Allen was being considered as a Republican nominee, person, possible candidate for the presidency,” Waring said.  “And I thought, well gee, in that case I guess I will have to speak up.  But then macaca presented itself.”

Waring was referring to the incident caught on tape when Allen referred to a person of Indian decent as “macaca.”  Macaca is a racial slur among French-speaking people from North African countries like Tunisia.  Allen's mother grew up in Tunisia

Allen denied he meant the word as a racial slur on a recent edition of “Meet the Press.”

“Where's the word come from?”  “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert asked.  “It must have been in your consciousness.”

“Oh, it's just made up,” Allen replied.  “Just made up.  Made up word…never heard it before.”

This week, as he has in the past, Allen also repeatedly denied ever using the ‘n’ word.

"It is completely false in its allegations,” he said.  “I do not remember ever using that word."

Neal Brendel, who played rugby with George Allen and remembers sitting at some games with Waring, says he does not remember the alleged Allen/Waring incident.

Furthermore, Brendel says, “I don't recall ever hearing Allen use the ‘n’ word on or off the field, nor do I recall him ever talking about anybody unfairly."

In 1979, while practicing law, George Allen began his political career by running for Virginia House of Delegates.  

Waring explained why she did not reveal her story at that time.

“Soon after that I left Charlottesville and I moved to Connecticut,” she said.  “So I was divorced from all of that.  I didn't know what was going on in Virginia, unless he got in the New York Times.  And I wasn't really interested." 

Waring is a registered Democrat and volunteers at the local Democratic office once a week.

Allen’s Democratic challenger is Jim Webb.

Waring says she has never had any contact with anybody from Webb’s campaign or any of his supporters in Virginia.  She also said she would come forward about Allen if he was a Democrat.

“I'd nail him even harder,” she said.  “That's what I would do.”

Waring the issue is not that Allen allegedly used the ‘n’ word so many years ago, but that she believes he is lying today.

"When George Allen stood right up and said he had never used that word, and that just blew me away,” Waring said.  “I thought, ‘Boy, you could, if you had any integrity, you would say yes, I may have made some mistakes in my youth, in my younger years, but, and I'm sorry.’  But to hear him lie about it when I know he is lying." 

Senator Allen's campaign manager says this is all just another false accusation, and that it's not true.

When asked how he knows it's not true, the campaign manager simply said, “It's not true.”

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