From the National Confidential website
A Republican party chairman in Montgomery County , Illinois
In the email Jim Allen reportedly attacked Erika Harold, a
former Miss America
challenging Rep. Rodney Davis (R) in the party’s primary election. The email
described Harold, who is biracial, as “the love child of the DNC” and that
after the primary she’ll be “working for some law firm that needs to meet their
quota for minority hires.”
It continues: “miss queen is being used like a street walker
and her pimps are the DEMOCRAT PARTY and RINO REPUBLICANSThese pimps want
something they can’t get,,, the seat held by a conservative REPUBLICAN Rodney
Davis and Nancy Pelosi can’t stand it.”
Update: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus issued the following statement this afternoon calling for Allen's resignation:
Update: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus issued the following statement this afternoon calling for Allen's resignation:
“The astonishingly offensive views expressed by Chairman
Allen have absolutely no place among the leaders of our party at any level. His
behavior is inexcusable and must not be tolerated. He should apologize to Erika
Harold and resign immediately.”
I applaud the chairman's action. A standard must be set.
Update 2: Allen has resigned his leadership post as county chairman.
This type of rhetoric is another among many examples of my basic conclusion about the GOP and black voters, which I challenge ANYBODY to definitively refute. To wit;
The Republican Party is fundamentally disinterested in black
voters as a political constituency. The GOP does not believe that the black
voter bloc is necessary or essential to its aspirations for governance. This is
a sentiment widely held by both its national and state leadership and by the vast majority of its rank and file membership and supporters.
I believe the above statement to be true and supported by ample behavioral evidence. If you disagree, if you think that in fact the GOP is seriously interested in black voters as a political constituency and does believe them to be necessary and essential to their aspirations for governance, give me your argument for why the above statement isn't correct.
Words of advice before you answer my challenge. CAREFULLY READ THE STATEMENT FIRST. The above statement DOES NOT SAY the GOP is racist, so don't waste your time responding to it as though it does. I've written it clearly and succinctly. Address what it says. That said, go ahead and make my day. Tell me I'm wrong.
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Mike · 614 weeks ago
I've long wanted people like him to leave and form their own angry white people party. He also used the term "RINO" which I consider anyone to be an intolerant twit when they use that. It only brings more people to the Democrats.
It's things like this is why blacks don't consider the GOP.
A Political Season 53p · 614 weeks ago
Mike · 614 weeks ago
A Political Season 53p · 614 weeks ago
Mike · 613 weeks ago
Don't do it with just Latinos, but with every community all the time and honestly, just fire the strategists who say to ignore the ethnics and get people who have been in the communities. Simply nominating and getting candidates who resemble the group won't bring people over. Kicking the bigots out is a first step, but people won't flock suddenly. People like to be asked.
The Republican Party needs new ideas, not ideas that may have worked in the 80's. Unfortunately, it's all "Obama is a socialist, but we have the same old same old!"
Honestly, it needs a new base as it's had the same base for nearly 50 years. I speak as a concerned Rockefeller Republican.