Politician shuns Gibson after anti-Jewish rant

California’s Republican candidate for lieutenant governor said he would no longer use a fund-raising letter sent on his behalf by Mel Gibson, following the actor’s anti-Semitic rant during a drink-driving arrest.

The three-page letter written by Braveheart star Gibson and sent to potential donors by Tom McClintock’s campaign says the conservative state senator from Thousand Oaks could use the lieutenant governor’s office as a “powerful engine for governmental reform”.