Of the town hall protesters, John Dingell said: “Well, the last time I had to confront something like this was when I voted for the civil rights bill and my opponent voted against it. At that time, we had a lot of Ku Klux Klan folks and white supremacists and folks in white sheets and other things running around causing trouble.”

That he had an opponent on a bill didn’t make any sense.  According to Dingell’s house web page, John Dingell’s opponent was a Democrat:

“In 1966, redistricting merged his district with that of Rep. John Lesinski Jr. Both men were Democrats, but they split on the 1964 Civil Rights Act — Dingell voted for it, Lesinski against it….”