Father, you have forsaken your Children and left them to Die in the Wilderness. Forsaken Children rebel until Father shows Unconditional Commitment and Caring. Another open letter to the Minnesota GOP, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Senator Norm Coleman, Governor Tim Pawlenty and President George Bush
President Bush and McCain - Please look at the MN GOP.
The Minnesota GOP has no “Skin in the Game” – probably because it doesn’t look like them. They have neglected certain campaigns of local candidates that are flying under the Republican Party Flag. I can speak for all of them but choose to speak for the candidate that my agency has been hired to work for, Barb Davis White for Congress 2008 Campaign. For whatever reason, race, being a Woman or lack of experience by this organization, the MN GOP, Senator Norm Coleman and the Republican power brokers of in Minnesota have left their children to die in the 2008 campaign season. Barb Davis White can beat Keith Ellison with the help of the people and the organization of the Republican Party. How would the McCain/Palin folks feel about this action in Minnesota – trust me, they will get this story…
Barb Davis White is running for Congress in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District against Rep. Keith Ellison without the assistance of the Party she’s aligned with. Since initial contact in the form of a meeting with Darren Bearson, Executive Director of the Minnesota GOP; Brian Humphreys, Political Director by her Press Secretary in August there has been no call backs; no invites to rallies; no ads placed in local radio, newspapers and television in support of Ms. Davis White’s race for Congress. No contact with Chairman Ron Carey has been the flavor of the race. Each time the MN GOP was contacted by the campaign, everyone was “out to lunch in the morning, afternoon and dinner time” no calls backs to the campaign office. Numerous messages have been left with not 1 call back. Also a meeting was requested with Chairman Carey by Barb’s campaign – no call backs our meeting set up (?).
If this is the way the Minnesota GOP handles one of the most critical races in Minnesota for one of their own, we need a dramatic, enema-like house cleaning of the players at 525 Park Street in St. Paul – first thing Monday morning! Last month (September), the Barb Davis White for Congress website received over 192,000 “multi-page” views with tracking this month (the last full month before the November 4, 2008 election), pacing ahead of last month’s numbers. I’m very sure they are tuning in false numbers to the National Republican Party – they have not done 1 thing for the campaign of Ms. Davis White.
The Campaign for Barb Davis White for Congress needs your support in reaching their financial goal to slow the campaign of Rep. Keith Ellison. Since the MN GOP (short for “GO ON PLAYING”) is not willing to return a phone call, invite and plan a community rally for Barb to attend; assist the campaign with financial and technical help, it’s up to the people who read this to participate and join in by first of all donating to the Barb Davis White for Congress Campaign (www.barbdaviswhiteforcongress.com) and then calling 651-222-0022 and ask Chairman Carey “What the hell is up with the Minnesota GOP?” Just an observation…”What happen to the Dr. Ron Paul/Campaign for Liberty people in Minnesota?” (We will talk about that next time.)
The Democrats and Keith are very well organized, doing rallies, forums and “Get out the Vote” campaigns. Al Franken is a “mainstay” in north Minneapolis showing up at local Black restaurants and community events. Y-T-D there has been no sighting of Senator Norm Coleman in North Minneapolis or at community events (the MN GOP does not feel that Minority-Ethnics are not important to the Republican Party which is very sad). A small effort by Senator Coleman and the Minnesota GOP could make the difference in the Barb Davis White for Congress 2008 Campaign.
Since the Minnesota GOP does not want to help…”It’s WAR”
From the Party of Abraham Lincoln – Introducing Mr. Antoine Members, Congressional Candidate for Chicago’s 1st CD
The Independent Business News Network, in cooperation with the 5 African American Congressional Candidates running for Congress in 2008 will be keeping a close watch on congressional races in Georgia, Illinois, Florida and Minneapolis. These 5 candidates are running on the Republican ticket. We have found many “disparities” within the Republican Party as it pertains to Blacks and hope to deliver messages and information across the United States about issues and concerns. This installment will be the first of many focusing on “Being Black and Republican in the USA”.
About Antoine Members:
I’m a lifelong resident of Chicago, born and raised on the Westside and now residing on the Southside. A family man, I am married to my beautiful wife, Tònia, and have two wonderful children, Destiny and Journey. Academically, I am a graduate of CVS High School and have attended East-West University.
Professionally, I worked for several years at a medical clinic and hospital that serviced an underserved Westside community. I currently serve as a Sheriff Deputy for the Cook County Department of Corrections, where I recently celebrated my 3rd year of service. My faith has been shaped through growing up at Englewood Church of God, where I later became an Associate Minister. I am now a long time member of Living Word Christian Center.
Why I’m running
I am running because the good people of the 1st district need employment, protection, and opportunities. The people we have continually selected to represent our concerns have only represented themselves by creating legislation that benefits the special interest groups they have indebted themselves to. The problems our district continues to face have not been dealt with. If we continue on this path of electing politicians that do nothing for our communities, we will continue to receive the same results.
For the past 16 years, many of our children have not learned to read, and many have fallen far behind their appropriate grade levels. These educational challenges have lead to discouragement and exorbitant school dropout. For the past 16 years, jobs in our district have drastically decreased, and constructive activities to empower youth after school, on weekends and during the summer have disappeared. It is time to leave the past 16 years of job loss, increased violence, and lack of opportunities behind us. I want to create opportunities for small, mid-size, and large businesses to operate in our district because too many of our jobs are being shipped overseas causing fellow Americans to be out of work.
I want to crack down on the practice of illegal immigrants finding work while our ex-offender population is repeatedly denied work, forcing most of them to resort back to a life of crime.
It is time for a transition from our complacent officials of 16 years that have promised to do the job, but have failed to deliver year after year. All these reasons have inspired me and that is why I am running for Congress. For more information, visit Antoine’s website at www.antoinemembers.com.
The Orginal Relationship that Worked – Blacks and Republicans
This post is from THE ORNERY OBSERVER, AUGUST 14, 2008 titled: Black Republicans Face Rejection by Their Own Community – Why do black Americans forsake “The Party of Lincoln?” By Paul Gottfried. THE ORNERY OBSERVER is copyright (c) 2008 by Paul Gottfried and the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation, http://www.fgfbooks.com. All rights reserved. A version of this column appeared in Lancaster (PA) Newspapers in July 2008. Paul Gottfried, Ph.D., is the Raffensperger professor of Humanities at Elizabethown College in Pennsylvania. For Dr. Gottfried’s photo and biographical sketch, and to read some of his other columns on-line, see: http://www.fgfbooks.com/Gottfried-Paul/Gottfried-bio.html.
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We begin…. Black Republicans Face Rejection by Their Own Community – Why do black Americans forsake “The Party of Lincoln?” By Paul Gottfried.
In view of Barack Obama’s rise to national prominence, it might be worthy of note that some black politicians have failed to attract black votes. Lynn Swann — one such candidate — ran for governor in my home state of Pennsylvania. Lynn Swann is an articulate Republican and committed Evangelical Christian. I happily cast my vote for him against Ed Rendell. Like another black candidate, Michael Steele, who ran for governor of Maryland, Swann served with distinction as lieutenant governor. He lost the black vote because of his Republican affiliations. But unlike Steele, Swann did not have his character blackened by the NAACP, whose Maryland leadership had mocked Steele as an “Oreo.”
Allow me to raise this unsettling question: Why have black Republicans been singled out for noisy ridicule in the black community? And it is not only blacks who are engaging in this ridicule. White journalists and white intellectuals, who have rallied to Obama as a moral redeemer, treat black Republicans as hostile to other blacks.
Historical Ties to GOP
I am raising this query not as an unflagging GOP supporter (which I have long ceased to be) but as an inquisitive historian. American blacks were overwhelmingly Republican from the Civil War, in which the Republicans were the party of Negro Emancipation, down to the New Deal. In the 1950s, they voted twice with large pluralities for the Republican Dwight Eisenhower. Eisenhower’s Democratic opponent in 1952, Adlai Stevenson, ran with an avowed segregationist as his running mate, John Sparkman of Alabama.
Even as late as 1964, the Civil Rights Act passed because 90 percent of the Republicans in Congress, as opposed to about 50 percent of the Democrats, voted for it. The affirmative action programs that the Democrats now proudly support were introduced under the Republican Richard Nixon in 1969 as part of the Philadelphia Plan for urban redevelopment. Under this plan, federal contractors had to meet certain goals in hiring black employees.
Nor has the fact that the current Republican administration selected blacks for high cabinet posts meant anything to most black voters. Rice, Powell, and other Republicans who have worked for this administration are judged in polls taken among blacks to be disloyal members of their race. But why is the half-white Obama, who grew up in a non-black society, considered blacker than Clarence Thomas, who grew up in a segregated black society in Georgia?
Short Shrift from Democrats
Nor does it seem to me that Democrats have given blacks more than have Republicans. It was the supposedly pro-black Clinton administration that abolished welfare programs that went disproportionately to lower-class blacks. Clinton was able to do this because blacks would support him unconditionally. By cutting payments to a group that voted in relatively small numbers (the underclass), Clinton could therefore create the impression of being a fiscal conservative to balance his image as a social liberal.
I’ve no idea how such weird judgments are formed, except that Obama is positioned in the far Left of the Democratic Party, while Thomas is a right-of-center Republican.
But those positions have little to do with specifically black interests. Does Obama’s willingness to grant driving licenses to illegal aliens or his support for late-term abortions express identifiably black concerns? Or does Thomas’ opposition to gay marriage or to federal laws preempting state laws concerning the right to bear arms near school buildings show that he is against his fellow-blacks? Although by no means a fan of the Bush foreign policy, I cannot see how Condoleezza Rice’s position on the Iraqi War indicates hostility toward black people. Was Clinton’s bombing of Serbs in 1999 a more black-friendly act?
Kemp Outreach Failure
In the 1980s New York Congressman, Jack Kemp, who later became Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Ronald Reagan, tried to build a career as a Republican who knew how to reach out to blacks. Never did a politician try so hard to live up to a reputation. As a federal official Kemp favored set-asides for racial minorities. His addresses before Republican gatherings often featured long quotations from Martin Luther King and rhetorical questions intended to appeal to white guilt about “Where were Republicans when others were riding the freedom buses?”
But there were two problems with this strategy. First, Democrats like Jimmy Carter never rode Freedom Buses, but instead began their careers as segregationist politicians. Nonetheless, unlike Republicans who had talked out against segregation, such Democrats did very well in picking up black votes. (And so did that onetime famous segregationist George Wallace by the end of his career in Alabama politics.) Second, Kemp’s desperate reaching out to blacks did not benefit his party. Although in 1996 he managed to obtain the vice-presidential slot, the GOP received only 10 percent of the black vote that year. And Kemp got heckled when he spoke before black crowds.
What this failed outreach suggests is that the GOP’s attempts to appeal to black voters have generally not met with success. At the same time, the revulsion of blacks for Republicans, and particularly for black Republicans, seems unrelated to the history of either group. I for one am still searching for an explanation as to why this hostility is as deep and abiding as it seems to be.
RNC asked about African American Congressional Candidates that are scheduled to speak at the RNC
The following email was sent to the RNC today…
It concerns me as Barb Davis White’s Press Secretary and also as a General Manager for a News & Information Corporate Media Outlet that you have not scheduled, nor will confirm that any African American Congressional Candidates have been asked to speak at the RNC, according to the young lady that answers the phone at your office and you. After speaking with you (Ms. Webb), the answer that the information is “confidential” does not work. We already know that Barb Davis White, 5th CD Minnesota and Antoine Members 1st CD Chicago have not been contacted…who does that leave?
On Friday, August 15, 2008 I was approached by a gentleman who told me to “cool down”, don’t go after Ron Carey’s office or the RNC and we will get together later and work things out after the RNC. He went on to threaten Barb’s campaign by saying, “If you don’t, Barb is finished!” The RNC has given money to some local “point people” in the Twin Cities to have party events neglecting the most valued and important thing to attract voter’s of color to the Republican Party…”community engagement and outreach”. No one from Minnesota’s non-profit agencies have been contacted by the GOP/RNC to teach the community about the Constitution of the United States or even to register voters. Remember…Liberty does not have a color, it has soul!
This “slave mentality thinking” i.e.; “Be good you Black Republican’s while our White friends are in town” does not fly with me or the tools I have in place to distribute this message “top-of-mind” to the general public and national news affiliates.
Keith Ellison is not worried and rest assured that the Minnesota GOP will put no effort into an African American Republican candidate for Congress in Minnesota with the current leadership of the GOP.
Again, and for the last time – I will ask, what African American Congressional Candidates have been scheduled to speak at the RNC? What do we really have to loose, besides Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District?
Good day!
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