Opposition Senators yesterday kept up the attack on Premier Ewart Brown?s controversial comments in the House of Assembly on Friday night.

However Senate Opposition leader Kim Swan said: ?What the Premier did on Friday was nothing unique.?

He said when the Auditor General had raised tricky questions he too had been branded a racist by the PLP Government.

United Bermuda Party Senator Bob Richards said the Premier?s comments had set a new low and brought the Premier?s post into disrepute.

He said: ?It was not a spontaneous rant because it was all planned.

?He had an audience up there waiting for him to say these things. He telegraphed his punches. He had his cheering section.

?It seemed to be calculated strategy.?

Sen. Richards said the ploy, in which Dr. Brown had used the phrase ?racist dog? in a heated exchange with Grant Gibbons, had been launched because Dr. Gibbons? comments were hitting home as he probed over the fundraising activities of the Tourism Helps Everyone Foundation set up by the Premier?s wife.

Sen. Richards said the Opposition was right to ask questions about the corruption dangers of accepting donations from abroad and he said there were laws to banish the practice in America where a former Presidential candidate was made to give back money given to him from Asian sources.

But Senate President Alf Oughton interjected to remind Sen. Richards that there was no evidence anything untoward had happened.

Government Senator Wayne Caines defended the Premier and said Bermuda should not run from the issue of race and the remarks needed to be said.

He said the PLP would welcome public scrutiny.

He said: ?If anyone wants to put in a structure to benefit Bermuda and the Bermudian people to make sure nothing nefarious happens we won?t thwart that.?

Senator David Burch said it was blatant hypocrisy of the UBP to kick up about party finance when money had always flowed its way from the establishment.

He challenged the UBP to name who was funding its current election commercials.

?This party has struggled for decades on bake sales and dollars from working folks.?

Senator Caines had also called on the UBP to open up the books on who was funding its activities.