More blacks run for Congress on GOP ticket

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WASHINGTON, May 5 (UPI) -- At least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, party officials said.

Party officials and the candidates said they recognize they have uphill battles in the primary and general elections, but they also note that black Republicans are running with confidence, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Leaders and candidates point to two reasons -- dissatisfaction with the Obama administration and the fact that Barack Obama was elected president.
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http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010...or-Congress-on-GOP-ticket/UPI-85171273081967/

Just as predicted, The socialist president would re-vitalize the GOP. :good4u:
 
But if these guys and gals do get elelcted they may make the republican party stop working to keep black people from voting?

How can the republicans win elelctions without caging black voters?
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caging_list#1980s


1980s
In 1981 and 1986 the Republican National Committee (RNC) sent out letters to predominately African-American neighborhoods. When tens of thousands of them were returned undeliverable, the party successfully challenged the voters and had them deleted from voting rolls. Due to the violation of the Voting Rights Act, the RNC was taken to court. Its officials entered a consent decree which prohibited the party from engaging in anti-fraud initiatives that targeted minorities or conducting mail campaigns to "compile voter challenge lists."[5]

[edit] 2004 US Election
BBC journalist Greg Palast obtained an RNC document entitled "State Implementation Template III.doc" that described Republican election operations for caging plans in numerous states. The paragraph in the document pertaining to caging was:

V. Pre Election Day Operations New Registration Mailing
At whatever point registration in the state closes, a first class mailing should be sent to all new registrants as well as purged/inactive voters. This mailing should welcome the recipient to the voter rolls. It is important that a return address is clearly identifiable. Any mail returned as undeliverable for any reason, should be used to generate a list of problematic registrations. Poll watchers should have this list and be prepared to challenge anyone from this list attempting to vote.[6][7]

Shortly before the 2004 election, Palast also obtained a caging list for Jacksonville, Florida, which contained a high number of African Americans and registered Democrats. The caging list was attached to an email which a Florida Republican party official was sending to RNC headquarters official Tim Griffin.[7][8][9]
The Republican National Committee sent letters to predominately urban minority areas in Ohio. When 35,000 letters were returned as undeliverable, the party employed poll watchers to challenge the voters. Voting rights groups challenged the RNC in a case that went to the Supreme Court, but the RNC was not stopped from challenging those voters. Similarly, the RNC sent out 130,000 letters in Philadelphia hoping to cage voters there. Philadelphia is a city with a majority African American population that votes heavily Democratic. The Republicans were attempting to cage votes by people who were likely to vote for the Democratic candidates.[10]
In the Ohio court challenge, the RNC submitted a caging list that targeted urban and African-American areas in and around Cleveland.[11]
Journalists found evidence that the Republican National Committee (RNC) attempted to use caging to suppress votes in five states in the 2004 US presidential election. For example, in New Jersey RNC officials used caging lists to challenge absentee ballots and absentee ballot requests.[11]
[edit] 2008 US Election
As noted earlier, the Republican Secretary of State in Michigan was found purging voters from voting rolls when voter ID cards were returned as undeliverable. In the court challenge, the federal judge ordered the state to reinstate the voters.[12] The judge ruled that the state's actions were in violation of the NVRA. His decision noted that there was no way to prevent qualified voters from being disfranchised as their cards may be returned as undeliverable due to postal error, clerical error, inadvertent routing within a multi-unit dwelling, and even simple misspelling or transposition of numbers in an address.[13]
In December 2007, Kansas GOP Chair Kris Kobach sent an email boasting, "[T]o date, the Kansas GOP has identified and caged more voters in the last 11 months than the previous two years!"[14]
Republicans sent out fundraising mailers to voters in five Florida counties: Duval, Hillsborough, Collier, Miami-Dade and Escambia, with 'do not forward' on the letters. The mailers included inaccurate Voter ID numbers and ostensibly confirmed with voters they were registered as Republican. The RNC declined to discuss the mailer with the St. Petersburg Times. A representative denied the mailing had anything to do with caging. "Two top Florida elections officials, both Republicans, faulted the GOP mailing, calling it "confusing" and "unfortunate" because of a potential to undermine voter confidence by making them question the accuracy of their registrations." Some officials expressed concern that the RNC would try to use a caging list derived from the mailers.[15]
In Northern California reports of voter caging emerged when letters marked 'do not forward' were sent to Democrats with fake voter ID numbers. The description of the letters matches the letters that were sent out in Florida.[16] See the caging letter that was sent out here. Many details on the letters were false; for example, the letters referred to a Voter Identification Division but RNC personnel said they had no such department. The RNC did not return calls from a news organization regarding the letters.
On October 5, 2008 the Republican Lt. Governor of Montana, John Bohlinger, accused the Montana Republican Party of vote caging to purge 6,000 voters from three counties which trend Democratic. These purges included decorated war veterans and active duty soldiers.[17]
The New York Times found in its review of state records that unlawful actions in six states led to widespread voter purges, which could have impact on the 2008 elections. Some of the actions were apparently the result of mistakes by the states' handling voter registrations and files as they tried to comply with a 2002 federal law related to running elections. While neither party was singled out, because the Democratic Party registered more new voters this year, Democratic voters were more adversely affected by such actions of state officials.[18]
 
The Democrat Party has a long history of racism, including terrorism against blacks. Shall I provide a summary for you?
 
yeah right, republicans are for locking up thousands of minorities for pot possession while allowing rich whites with a pound of coke to go to rehab. Gotcha
 
Socrtease said:
At the end of the primary races all over the US I wonder will you come back and brag about how many of those 32 actually won their primaries?
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How many are actually in a Primary battle?

Ryan Frazier has no challenge in the primary. I'm hoping he beats Perlmutter...

http://www.frazierforcolorado.com/

This is, so far, the only candidate I've given money to this year, as our Congressman doesn't even have to campaign in order to get elected.
 
Topspin said:
The laws were started with racism as a fear backdrop in the 30's. Most cops are republicans. prohibition benefits cops and jailers the most.
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Police don't make the laws, elected politicians do. Which party had the country by the balls in the 1930's? :pke:
 
Southern Man said:
The Democrat Party has a long history of racism, including terrorism against blacks. Shall I provide a summary for you?
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And the people of color in this country used to vote for republicans then , they did so right up until the republicans began to fuck them.

Then being the smart people they are they began to vote democratic.

Now they hate the republican party because for the last thirty years they have tried to keep them from voting when they can.

They do thingslike distroy Acorn with lies and smears.

You can pat yourselves on the back for distroying ACORN but what you dont even think about is that ACORN has helped inner city poor of all colors get housing and get involved in elections for YEARS. They KNOW Acorn was lied about even if you refuse to face these facts.

You still wonder why blacks hate the republican party?
 
evince said:
And the people of color in this country used to vote for republicans then , they did so right up until the republicans began to fuck them.

Then being the smart people they are they began to vote democratic.

Now they hate the republican party because for the last thirty years they have tried to keep them from voting when they can.

They do thingslike distroy Acorn with lies and smears.

You can pat yourselves on the back for distroying ACORN but what you dont even think about is that ACORN has helped inner city poor of all colors get housing and get involved in elections for YEARS. They KNOW Acorn was lied about even if you refuse to face these facts.

You still wonder why blacks hate the republican party?
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Actually, blacks started voting for the Democrat Party when they changed tactics to more insidious policies, such as affirmative action forever, welfare and public housing. These tactics have decimated black families much more successfully then the KKK had ever hoped for.
 
Socrtease said:
At the end of the primary races all over the US I wonder will you come back and brag about how many of those 32 actually won their primaries?
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This statement is racist. To even entertain the idea that a black man would have troubles winning under the conservative ticket is blatant liberal racism.
 
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