The Michigan Republican Party is seeking to increase its visibility in Democratic- and minority-heavy Detroit, and last week, it brought Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to the city to open the party's African-American Engagement Office. But if anything, the launch event put into stark relief just how much work the GOP has to do, when a largely white audience turned out to hear the senator speak.
Paul initially spoke at the new African-American Engagement Office on Livernois Avenue in Detroit for about four minutes on Friday. According to the progressive site Eclectablog, "The seats in the tiny space were filled with well-dressed supporters, most of whom were African-American."
“Today’s opening of this office is the beginning of a new Republican Party,” Paul said. “This is going to be a Republican Party that is in big cities and small cities, in the countryside, in the city. It’s going to be about bringing a message that is popular no matter where you’re from, whether you're rich or poor, whether you’re black, white or brown.”
Paul then went to a larger grassroots event at the Grace Bible Chapel, where there were protesters from the civil rights group National Action Network outside. The online invitation said the event was intended to "celebrate the opening of our African-American Engagement Office in Detroit."
Tracking footage from the Democratic super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, however, shows an overwhelmingly white audience ended up turning out:
Detroit is approximately 83 percent African-American.
Wow, that is just sad.
You know, and here's just a thought, perhaps it would help if the GOP were not constantly fighting to get rid of the minimum wage or keep it low, fighting against Women's reproductive rights, and fighting against social programs which greatly benefit the African American voters.
It might also help not to send the man who famously argued against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
GOPPERS: Absolutely without the ability to put themselves in anyone else’s shoes, ethically and morally bankrupt, still fighting the Cold War, still fighting against Civil Rights, still hating women.
ReplyDeleteThis is the same asshole who spoke at Howard University and lectured the students on Black History.
ReplyDeleteHow about the Republicans send Sarah Palin and she can tell the story about how Piper is always shuckin' and jivin'?
This is right up there with Bristol lecturing on abstinence. Who knew you could take tone-deafness to such art form? Maybe when he gets out of jail, O.J. can turn marriage counselor?
ReplyDeleteThe Great White Dope.
ReplyDeleteI can’t believe they’re stupid enough to send HIM out there, but I suppose no one else would do it; kind of like the lowest manager in a company sent out to do public relations because no one wants the job.
I don't understand how this man could not connect with Detroiters. I mean, he's blond, blue-eyed, set himself up as some medical doctor, is a millonaire, has stated he is against Civil Rights because..oh, freedom...is in the pcoket of the Kochs (wonder if he visited the pile of tar sands sludege the Kochs are piling along the Detroit River?) I mean, why wouldn't Dems just embrace that message of exclusion and the rights of rich white guys? More of the GOP BS...they have a lot of shovelling to do.
ReplyDeleteWhat pure bullshit! Pay attention, minorities. The Republicans are not changing they've been doing for a long time now. They are anti women's rights, making it more difficult for minorities to vote throughout the nation, voting down Food Stamps in the U.S. Congress, have not allowed jobs to be created via the U.S. Congress and have been trying to get rid of President Obama's Affordable Care Act (which they finally have figured out they will not succeed at doing so!) for years, etc.
ReplyDeleteDo NOT mark your ballot for a Republican ANYWHERE across the nation. You will only be hurting yourself, and others, if you do so.
But he DID choose a curly toupee. Here we go again, another Bridge to Nowhere. He is running for the WH in 2016, so this is how he is preparing. Isn't he against extending unemployment benefits, too? Another gop "kid" riding his father's coat tails onto the government teat. Sure beats working for a living.
ReplyDeleteAnd let's watch how the media promotes THIS information...except they won't.
ReplyDeleteThe US Is In Its Strongest Economic Position In 20 Years
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"The U.S. will be the biggest drive of global markets in 2014, as it moves further ahead of other economies in the global business cycle," he said.
Woo's team created a "new country ranking of relative economic strengths" that weighs a country's unemployment rate, current account, and fiscal balance. Woo calls the new ranking system REBALANCE.
What he found is that, under REBALANCE, the U.S. is the strongest economy in the world. Check out the current rankings:
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Why didn't they send Boehner? The President once said that he and Boehner have something in common, they are both "men of color" He could not keep the grin off his face when he said it!!
ReplyDeleteAnyone notice that Sarah Palin has not posted anything about Nelson Mandela for his remarkable leadership of South Africa.....not one word. Maybe that fling with Glenn Rice has left her pissed about all black men?
ReplyDeleteShe just couldn't think of a snarky enough catch-phrase to compare how his trials and tribulations as a leader were just like what she went through in her half-term as governor of the country of Alaskaaa.
DeleteShe knows better - she learned the 'hard' way long ago!!
DeleteHis latest hairdo, while still a little off, is a huge improvement -- it's almost not-laughable.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he could assist Sarah with her coiffure planning and implementation activities in 2014.
The GOP does not have a clue in the world.
ReplyDeleteI suppose the stupid outreach to black people is because they've decided they can't handle immigration reform. Assholes.
I want Rand to go back to Howard to try to "teach" a little more of African-American history. Again, asshole.
a little bit more about African
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retards
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a bargain-basement rug. I've got dust bunnies that are better looking.
ReplyDeleteWhen you have to hang a sign over the door saying "African-American Engagement Office", all is lost.
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