Dem rep. introduces House resolution calling for Perry to apologize for name of hunting camp

The measure, introduced by Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., also called on Perry and all Republican presidential candidates who have not done so, to condemn the word.

The resolution was ruled out of order because it is not Congress-related.

Perry has come under fire in recent days after it was alleged that the word, which had been painted on a large rock near the entrance to his family's hunting camp, could be seen as recently as 2008.

Citing the Washington Post story that leveled the claims, Jackson, the son of civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson, argued that it was due to the moral outrage of "the vast majority of the people of the United States" that Perry must apologize and condemn the name.

Perry has denied that the name could have been seen since the 1980s.

"I think there were some very much and strong inconsistencies and just infactual information that was in that story," Perry told Fox News yesterday.

"I know for a fact that in 1984 that rock was painted over."

The resolution demands that the House "call on Governor Rick Perry to apologize for not immediately doing away with the rock that contained the word" and urges Perry's presidential rivals who have yet to make "strong statements of outrage over the rock that contained the word to do so." The measure additionally calls on Perry to "condemn the use of this word as being totally offensive and inappropriate at any time and at any place in United States history" and demands that Perry "list the names of all lawmakers, friends, and financial supporters he took with him on his hunting trips" to the camp.