Ron Paul '90s newsletters rant against blacks, gays

• Ron Paul newsletters from 1990s include rants against blacks, gays
  
• NEW: Paul repudiates racist comments, tells CNN the material wasn't written by him
  
• One newsletter calls Martin Luther King Jr. a "pro-Communist philanderer"
  
• Another says 1992 LA riots ended after blacks went to "pick up their welfare checks"
  

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A series of newsletters in the name of GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul contain several racist remarks -- including one that says order was restored to Los Angeles after the 1992 riots when blacks went "to pick up their welfare checks."

CNN recently obtained the newsletters -- written in the 1990s and one from the late 1980s -- after a report was published about their existence in The New Republic.

None of the newsletters CNN found says who wrote them, but each was published under Paul's name between his stints as a U.S. congressman from Texas.

Paul told CNN's "The Situation Room" Thursday that he didn't write any of the offensive articles and has "no idea" who did.
CNN: Ron Paul literature ranted against blacks, gays