Steele: African-Americans Not Given Good Reason to Vote Republican

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RNC Chairman Michael Steele (Credit: AP)


Chicago Sun-Times
BY ABDON M. PALLASCH
Political Reporter
April 20, 2010



<font size="3">Why should an African-American vote Republican?</font size>

<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">"You really don't have a reason to, to be honest -- we haven't done a very good job of really giving you one. True? True,"</span> Republican National Chairman Michael Steele told 200 DePaul University students Tuesday night.

Steele -- a former Maryland lieutenant governor and seminarian serving as the first African-American head of the Republican Party -- offered a frank assessment of the American political system.


<font size="3">Turning to the Tea Partiers</font size>

A week after his Democratic counterpart, Tim Kaine, told 200 activists at an Ethiopian Restaurant four miles away that the Tea Party movement was causing a "civil war" in the GOP that could help Democrats in November, Steele said he is telling Republicans around the country to work with the Tea Party activists to elect Republicans this fall.

"I have advised our state chairs: Don't turn your nose up, or turn away those who are active in the Tea Party movement. Embrace them. Welcome them. Talk to them," Steele said. "Those activists have now become a very large part of our voting bloc. They represent a third or more of the voting age population, so they're going to have a profound impact on elections and in some cases in the primaries this November and this spring. Both parties had better pay attention."

Steele walked a tightrope on the hard-fought Florida Republican Senate primary election, noting, "In Florida, Marco Rubio has captured the imagination of the Tea Party there to the detriment of the governor, Gov. [Charlie] Crist, but from my perspective, Marco Rubio if he wins is a good candidate to run for the U.S. Senate. Should Gov. Crist win, he's a good candidate to run for the U.S. Senate. It's a win-win."

Steele towed the party line against the Democrats' Health Care plan. A student whose family had to move into smaller house after spending $250,000 on heart surgeries for the student asked Steele what he would do to bring down health costs. Steele said tort reform would help.

Steele seemed to hold the diverse student audience's attention most when he talked about his own experience suffering racial discrimination -- in his first law firm interview for example -- and when he confessed his party's failure to reach out to African-Americans:

<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">"We have lost sight of the historic, integral link between the party and African-Americans,"</span> Steele said. <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">"This party was co-founded by blacks, among them Frederick Douglass. The Republican Party had a hand in forming the NAACP, and yet we have mistreated that relationship. People don't walk away from parties, Their parties walk away from them</span>.

"For the last 40-plus years we had a 'Southern Strategy' that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South. Well, guess what happened in 1992, folks, 'Bubba' went back home to the Democratic Party and voted for Bill Clinton."

Steele did not address a recent controversy about the RNC paying $2,000 to entertain guests at a West Hollywood erotic bondage-theme club.


http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/2181538,african-american-vote-gop-steele-042110.article

 

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Is Steele Right

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Is Steele Behind the Times

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[actinanass]

I think its both que.

One of the reasons why I changed sides because I sat down, and listened to both sides. The problem is, when there's a party that basically says "hey I'm going to give you everything you *think* you want!" it's kinda hard to debate that. Not to mention, many of our people *in some ways I'm a part of it* cannot take constructive criticism well.

The only thing the republicans need to run off of, in concerns of the African-American community, is the fact that they *the republicans* believe in EXPANDING economic opportunities. This will be in contrast to Obama's belief in limited economic growth. *referring to his statement about the economy on his state of the union speech*

It comes down to this, do you want a hand out, or do you want more opportunity for an establish career?

 

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There Are Zero Black Republicans in Congress,
Yet 32 Are Running for Office in 2010?</font size><font size="4">

Michael Steele's admission that the Republicans have explicitly
pursued a race-based 'southern strategy' runs counter to
the strikingly high number of black GOP candidates. </font size></center>

Angela McGlowan, a small-business owner and former
Fox TV political analyst, running to unseat a Blue Dog
Democrat in Mississippi's first district. "They say, 'Angela,
you've made it big. Please go back to Washington and
help us.' When people who have despair ask you for
help, you don't turn them down."


Alternet
By Rich Benjamin
April 24, 2010



File it under one of those "Duh" statements.

In remarks at DePaul University this week, Michael Steele, the Republican leader, declared that his party hadn't "done a very good job" courting black votes. Republicans, their leader charged, had "mistreated" their relationship to blacks over four decades with a "'southern strategy' that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote."

"Why the hell is Steele, chairman of the RNC (!!), talking about a southern strategy from decades past when today's GOP can win 50 seats in the House," one angry GOP operative demanded by email.

Steele's remarks, and this fresh round of controversy entangling the party, shadow a less reported development. Thirty-two black Republicans, a record-high number, are now running for the U.S. House of Representatives. The South and West, the nation's most diverse regions, field the majority of these candidates: 13 (40 percent) are running in the South and six (19 percent) in the West.


<font size="3">32 Black Candidates; Demographics</font size>

Politically speaking, the group is running in a hodgepodge of districts:

• Twenty (63 percent) are running in districts that lean slightly or strongly Democratic,

• while 11 (34 percent) are running in districts that lean slightly or strongly Republican.

What's more, the 32 black candidates are running in districts that vary in racial composition:

• 17 are in majority-white districts,

• while 15 are majority-minority districts.

"People who've lost factory jobs or lost their home, people who approach me after Tea Party events, have asked me to run," says Angela McGlowan, a small-business owner and former Fox TV political analyst, running to unseat a Blue Dog Democrat in Mississippi's first district. "They say, 'Angela, you've made it big. Please go back to Washington and help us.' When people who have despair ask you for help, you don't turn them down."


<font size="3">No Recruitment of Black Candidates</font size>

There is no specific or organized effort to recruit black candidates to run for Congress, says Paul Lindsay, spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), the official party organization working to elect Republicans.

"Our recruitment process in general is colorblind," says Lindsay. "You know, that being said, we have been fortunate to have a successful year that includes a number of African-American candidates running."

<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">"Many black Americans are tired of the political system taking them for granted,"</span> says Timothy Johnson, chairperson of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a black-run organization that promotes the political involvement and election of blacks nationwide. </SPAN>"These candidates represent a small group of individuals who have stepped out on faith and decided to stop yelling at the TV and get involved."</font size>​

This historic showing of black candidates promises more hope than probability.

• Of the 32 candidates, only six stand even a reasonable chance of winning their respective party primary and general election, according to careful calculations, aggregating the analysis of Congressional Quarterly, the Cook Political Report and this author.

• These six viable black candidates include David Castillo (WA-3), Bill Hardiman (MI-3), Lou Huddleston (NC-8), Les Phillip (AL-5), Alan West (FL-22) and McGlowan.

• Of the GOP's top six black prospects, five are military veterans;
  
  
  • five are self-described conservative Christians;
  
  
  • four have advanced degrees;and
  
  
  • one is a light-skinned Caribbean immigrant, a la Colin Powell.

Alan West


Only one of the 32 black candidates is receiving active financial and political support from the national party: Allen West, who faces stiff opposition from well-funded Democratic incumbent Ron Klein. (That contested Florida congressional district swoops up from Broward to the northern tip of Palm Beach County, comprising the epicenter of the heated 2000 presidential recount.) West is the only black candidate in the NRCC's "Young Guns" program, an "elite" group of the party's top-priority candidates. The "merit-based" program provides funds and strategic political support to Republicans challenging Democratic incumbents or running for open seats. Young Guns must meet fundraising, volunteer-recruitment, Internet outreach and other campaign benchmarks to earn their status.

West declined to be interviewed through his spokesperson, Valentina Weis, also a founder of the South Florida Tea Party.

Given the anti-establishment, anti-Washington fervor haunting this election cycle, many Republican candidates publicly keep the national party at arm's length, anyway. (Right Senator Hutchinson?) But, no matter. Discrete political and financial support from the NRCC and the Republican establishment is craved by most GOP congressional hopefuls, including the competitive black ones. McGlowan, the Mississippi candidate, initiated a meeting with the NRCC, seeking party support -- to no avail. "Mississippi's good ol' boys rallied around an establishment candidate," she says, at Trent Lott's encouragement: Alan Nunnelee.

Like their white counterparts, the black GOP candidates are seeking national party support mixed with Tea Party street cred. This tightrope walk offers its own challenges -- and comedy. When a black reporter recently ventured into a big Tea Party rally, a "greeter" confused the reporter for a stadium worker, stopping him stone-cold at the gate: "Are you working tonight?"

Why blame the Tea Party greeter? His impromptu experiment in racial profiling has grounding in fact: A recent CBS/New York Times poll reveals that only 1 percent of Tea Party supporters are black. It's a chicken-egg conundrum, pinpointing an exact sequence of events: the GOP's "southern strategy," its extremely vanilla demographics, and its chronic racial kerfuffles. A bungled Hurricane Katrina response inspired Barbara Bush, inspecting the disaster survivors, to chime: "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."


<font size="3">This GOP's Not Lott, Thurmond or Steele ?</font size>

And never mind Trent Lott's Dixiecrat ode to Strom Thurmond. If only America elected the segregationist in 1948, "we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years." Or the Republican-supported Tennessee campaign ad starring a white woman cooing at a black Democrat: "Call me, Harold." Or Glenn Beck's insistence that Obama "hates" white people. Or, "You lie!" Or, Confederate History Month.

And aggravating the GOP's racial discomfort is the person once poised to soothe it: Michael Steele.

In a recent "Good Morning America" TV interview, Steele complained he is being held to a higher standard than his white predecessors because of his skin color.

Former GOP congressman and TV pundit Joe Scarborough scoffed: "It's just the opposite. When I talk to senior Republicans in Washington and I ask, 'Why is Michael Steele still in the job?' they laugh and say, 'What, you think we're going to fire an African American in the age of Obama? Are you an idiot?'"

A former seminarian, pro-life Catholic, and self-described "Lincoln Republican," Steele was installed by an overwhelmingly white party leadership in early 2009 to "broaden" the GOP base -- ideologically, not racially.

"When people speak of broadening the party's geographic diversity, they are speaking in code. They mean the party needs to welcome more moderates; be more forgiving of departures from orthodoxy; and be less antagonistic to pro-choicers and gays," according to political observer Marc Ambinder. Thus Steele's chairmanship "marks a step away from the balkanized Southern white ethos of the party."

This is not the GOP's first attempt to cleanse its racial image.

In 2005, the GOP wanted to launch a "big-tent campaign" to woo black voters, "If You Give Us a Chance, We'll Give You a Choice." That year, Ken Mehlman, GOP chairman at the time, apologized to blacks at an NAACP national convention for the party's history of exploiting racial tension to court white voters -- aka the "southern strategy."

In reality, Republican efforts to court minority voters also serve to smooth the party's rough, conservative edges. The GOP doesn't woo minorities just for their own sake, but also to reel in the larger, more desired prize: the national mass of moderate white voters. It's like flattering the pizza-face girl leaning on the bar to get to her knockout friend.

The GOP's overwhelmingly white coterie of party bosses elected Steele, immediately after Obama's inauguration, more for the sake of white moderates than for racial minorities. As one wag puts it, Steele provides the Republican Party "default race card insurance," political cover for when Republicans attack the president and need to deflect charges of racism.

When Republicans elect a black leader or extravagantly spotlight minorities at their public events, those gestures partly illustrate the party's racial progress. But they also double as preemptive strikes against inevitable and deserved charges of racial prejudice. These gestures are delivered like Bat Signals to moderate whites to telegraph the party's "tolerance."​

McGlowan, the Mississippi challenger and former TV pundit, says she is better poised than her white male competitors to "get the crossover vote from females, Latinos and blacks." Yet McGlowan also bristles at labels, insisting she is not running as a female or black candidate.

"Oh, heck no," she exclaims. "Harmony knows no color. Taxes know no color. Unemployment knows no color." During one forum in the South, McGlowan recalls, opponents proposed that she, the sole woman, speak first. She declined. "I don't want a special type of handout."

Republicans, and conservatives generally, face a sticky paradox. On the one hand, conservative dogma champions a "colorblind" mantra. Glenn Beck encourages his supporters to boycott the race question on the Census. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says America must end the "sordid business" of "divvying" ourselves by race. On the other hand, a rapidly diversifying electorate requires the GOP to acknowledge race and to racially diversify -- or go the way of the dodo bird.

Put bluntly, how does the GOP square its colorblind daydreams with its unfolding demographic nightmare? How does a party that professes to "transcend race" woo minority voters while clutching its white base?

Racial politics is tricky terrain, anyway, since voters don't vote primarily according to skin color -- the candidates' or their own. The vast majority of Americans cast ballots by weighing the issues close to home: the economy, health care, education, social values, immigration and the like. Race is not the be-all end-all of most Americans' voting choices. That noted, a minority voter's race is extremely predictive of party identification -- as much and more so than any other personal trait (gender, income, education level, etc.). Blacks, Latinos and Asian Americans consistently rate Democrats better than Republicans on their handling of such basic issues.

Race is not the main issue in the 2010 election cycle. But it's not irrelevant either.

Racial anxiety and race baiting cloud this campaign, too. The country's Obama-era racial politics rarely mentions race in debate, though it tucks race just under the surface of "nonracial" issues: taxes, health care reform, public spending, and, pointedly, immigration. One black candidate for Congress even tried to color Obama's cap-and-trade proposals black.

"Environmentalism is a new platform to welcome poor blacks onto the government plantation," charges Star Parker, a black, "small-government" conservative candidate in California's 37th district.

Decades after Reconstruction, the novelty and puzzlement over black Republicans are hardly new. White Republicans have also wondered why the party of Lincoln has historically failed to attract blacks. Departing the 1976 Republican convention aboard a commercial flight, country singer Pat Boone asked Earl Butz, Gerald Ford's Secretary of Agriculture, why more blacks didn't join the GOP. "The only thing the coloreds are looking for in life," the Secretary explained, "are a tight pussy, loose shoes, and a warm place to shit."

Decades later, while swaths of America adulate black sports stars, TV talk queens and even the president, the question lingers whether and how badly the GOP wants to racially diversify, while maintaining its conservative base.

Likewise, the historic batch of 32 congressional candidates navigates complicated election terrain -- no less so by Obama, Steele, those loaded Tea Parties, and their very own party baggage.


http://www.alternet.org/news/146598...ngress,_yet_32_are_running_for_office_in_2010​

 

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The GOP's New Race Card</font size><font size="4">

Republicans have recruited their biggest roster
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Daily Beast blog
by John Avlon

 

[actinanass]

I'm happy that there's more black republicans running. Check out the pastor that's running for *I believe* district 30. Old dude is on the money when it comes to policy...

http://www.brodenforcongress.com/

 

[nittie]

Blacks running as reps could be more self hate than belief in republicanism. That wouldn't be true 60 yrs ago when the rep party was the party of blacks but today it's the elite party that represents rich and affluent. Those values are contrary to mainstream Black America where family, community, jobs are still core issues.

 

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<FONT SIZE="3">Blacks running as reps could be more self hate than belief in republicanism.</FONT SIZE> That wouldn't be true 60 yrs ago when the rep party was the party of blacks but today it's the elite party that represents rich and affluent. Those values are contrary to mainstream Black America where family, community, jobs are still core issues.

Could you elaborate? Seriously.

I don't know any of these individuals and I haven't seriously read anything about their thoughts or thought processes, etc. So, I don't have a clue as to what they could be thinking.

But, what makes you conclude that "self hate" is the motivating factor in their decision to seek public office ???

Give me something more than mere speculation. Something more than just idle . . .

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[nittie]

Because they are moving away from what is important to most Black people. Obviously they don't identify with the people or the community. How can any self respecting Black person represent the tea party, seriously. I will say it is not just a republican thing it more class warfare, you see it with Obama not openly embracing his blackness, Steele crying racism to keep job, Black people using Blackness to get ahead then turning their backs on the community but the rep party is more elitist and openly hostile to Blacks than dem.

 

[actinanass]

Because they are moving away from what is important to most Black people. Obviously they don't identify with the people or the community. How can any self respecting Black person represent the tea party, seriously. I will say it is not just a republican thing it more class warfare, you see it with Obama not openly embracing his blackness, Steele crying racism to keep job, Black people using Blackness to get ahead then turning their backs on the community but the rep party is more elitist and openly hostile to Blacks than dem.

There go the "self-hate" card.

How is it "self-hate" *the term is an oxymoron itself IMO* when most of the candidates *the ones I've actually heard of* preach bringing more economic opportunities to the urban communities? Are you saying that our community disagrees with making more economic progress?

Why do the black community need the Democratic party so much?

 

[QueEx]

Because they are moving away from what is important to most Black people. Obviously they don't identify with the people or the community.

I'm not certain I know, "what is important to most Black people." It seems to me, importance varies by so many hard to pin-down variables, including but not limited to: education, class, background, complexion and locale, just to name a few.

How can any self respecting Black person represent the tea party, seriously.

Now, you might have something here. I too would question loyalty to the Tea Movement. BTW, Allen West is endorsed by Sarah Palin and the Tea. See, Sarah Palin on Allen West: You Betcha!

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[actinanass]

I'm not certain I know, "what is important to most Black people." It seems to me, importance varies by so many hard to pin-down variables, including but not limited to: education, class, background, complexion and locale, just to name a few.




Now, you might have something here. I too would question loyalty to the Tea Movement. BTW, Allen West is endorsed by Sarah Palin and the Tea. See, Sarah Palin on Allen West: You Betcha!

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1. I can guarantee that job opportunity will create everything you just stated that's an issue to the black community. More jobs = more money= more taxes= more power to our communities= better education due to demand. Many just need the leadership to guide to such places, no matter their politics. *sounds like I said Black America is leaderless...might be..*

2. So what? I don't remember hearing anything about Palin being racist. So, what's with the surprise on her endorsement for a black conservative?

 

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1. I can guarantee that job opportunity will create everything you just stated that's an issue to the black community. More jobs = more money= more taxes= more power to our communities= better education due to demand. Many just need the leadership to guide to such places, no matter their politics. *sounds like I said Black America is leaderless...might be..*

What issue did I state ? ? ?

Do you read with comprehension, OR, are you just looking for some place to post your talking points ? ? ? LOL

2. So what? I don't remember hearing anything about Palin being racist. So, what's with the surprise on her endorsement for a black conservative?

<font size="3">But then again, YOU haven't heard anything racist from Rush Limpbaugh, either:</font size>

. . . you know that they always try to group Rush into anything concerning race since the McNabb thing.

I actually like Limbaugh because he is entertaining.

Give me an example of something Rush said that was racist. I'm asking because I've been listening to him since 03, looking for something that he has said that was racist.

The reason I start listening to Rush is because I was trying to find racism in his rhetoric. Personally, I think he only speaks the truth when it comes race, and politics. Most of all, the people he criticize is the dumbass liberals. No wonder you can't stand him....

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<font size="3">Nuff said ? ? ?

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<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px inset; BORDER-LEFT: 1px inset; BORDER-TOP: 1px inset; BORDER-RIGHT: 1px inset" class=alt2>Originally Posted by actinanass
1. I can guarantee that job opportunity will create everything you just stated that's an issue to the black community. More jobs = more money= more taxes= more power to our communities= better education due to demand. Many just need the leadership to guide to such places, no matter their politics. *sounds like I said Black America is leaderless...might be..*



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What issue did I state ? ? ?

Do you read with comprehension, OR, are you just looking for some place to post your talking points ? ? ? LOL



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2. So what? I don't remember hearing anything about Palin being racist. So, what's with the surprise on her endorsement for a black conservative?



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But then again, YOU haven't heard anything racist from Rush Limpbaugh, either:

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<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px inset; BORDER-LEFT: 1px inset; BORDER-TOP: 1px inset; BORDER-RIGHT: 1px inset" class=alt2>Originally Posted by actinanass

. . . you know that they always try to group Rush into anything concerning race since the McNabb thing.​

I actually like Limbaugh because he is entertaining.​

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<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px inset; BORDER-LEFT: 1px inset; BORDER-TOP: 1px inset; BORDER-RIGHT: 1px inset" class=alt2>Originally Posted by actinanass

Give me an example of something Rush said that was racist. I'm asking because I've been listening to him since 03, looking for something that he has said that was racist.​

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<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=6 width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 1px inset; BORDER-LEFT: 1px inset; BORDER-TOP: 1px inset; BORDER-RIGHT: 1px inset" class=alt2>Originally Posted by actinanass

The reason I start listening to Rush is because I was trying to find racism in his rhetoric. Personally, I think he only speaks the truth when it comes race, and politics. Most of all, the people he criticize is the dumbass liberals. No wonder you can't stand him....​

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Nuff said ? ? ?


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GOP chairman: African-Americans
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RNC Chairman Michael Steele (Credit: AP)

<font size="3">I really thought Steele was on to something here.

I had hoped this was going somewhere.

What happened
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[Greed]

How many of the above 32 made it through the primaries and will be on the general ballot.

Probably just the ones that ran unopposed in an already Congressional Black Caucus district.

 

[thoughtone]

How many of the above 32 made it through the primaries and will be on the general ballot.

Probably just the ones that ran unopposed in an already Congressional Black Caucus district.

...and your point?

 

[Greed]

Point, as in waste of time to worry about Republicans.

 

[thoughtone]

Point, as in waste of time to worry about Republicans.

I agree.

 

[QueEx]

How many of the above 32 made it through the primaries and will be on the general ballot.

Probably just the ones that ran unopposed in an already Congressional Black Caucus district.

<font size="">1. Star Parker</font size>

Scripps Howard columnist Star Parker, author of the controversial Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It and a college-campus speaker for the Clare Boothe Luce Institute. She is running in California’s 37th District, which includes parts of Compton and Long Beach.

Republican Primary Results: Ran Unopposed.

Campaign Website: http://www.starparkerforcongress.com/

Star Parker's bio according to Wikipedia:

Parker holds an Associate's Degree in Advertising from Los Angeles City College and a Bachelor of Science in Marketing with a minor in International Business from Woodbury University. [1]

Parker is a conservative African American woman who has stated she spent her teen and early adult years as an unemployed mother on welfare. She also has told of being arrested in her teens for shoplifting, and has publicly disclosed the fact that she has had four abortions.[2]

Parker became a Christian and subsequently became a spokesperson for related political issues. She opposes the welfare system, claiming that welfare is similar to an invitation to a government plantation, which creates a situation where those who accept the invitation switch mindsets from "How do I take care of myself?" to "What do I have to do to stay on the plantation?" She claims that stable families and strong moral values are the key to ending poverty. She believes that abortion is wrong and has hurt black families. In 2007, Parker was a guest at the conservative Value Voters Summit and in 2009 was a guest speaker at this same event.[3]

Parker is the founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, which was formerly based in Los Angeles, but is currently based in Washington, D.C. She is also a syndicated columnist for Scripps Howard News Service and the author of three books: White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay (2006), Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It (2003) and Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats: From Welfare Cheat to Conservative Messenger (1998).

Parker appeared as co-host on the ABC daytime talk show The View on June 19, 2007. She expressed her opposition to abortion, birth control and same-sex marriage. Parker is currently a speaker for the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute's college campus lecture program. On August 27, 2009 Star Parker appeared with Alaskans for Parental Rights to kick off a statewide signature drive to make teen abortions in Alaska illegal without parental consent [4]

In March 2010, Star Parker announced she is running for Congress (Star Parker for Congress). She is running as the republican candidate in California's 37th congressional district, which encompasses most of Long Beach and Compton, as well as Carson, Signal Hill, and parts of other municipalities.​

Opponent:

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(A) Laura Richardson

This district is currently represented by Democrat Laura Richardson, a one-term Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) incumbent, in a district where the demographics have shifted away from the traditional CBC constituency over the past seven years.


(B) Also running is independent candidate Nick Dibs.​

Status: Winner take all, California General Election, November 2, 2010


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2.

Michael Williams</font size>

Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams, the only statewide elected African-American official in the Lone Star State, brought the house down at CPAC with a speech focused on energy independence (the Texas Railroad Commission helps regulate the oil and gas industry). He is running for the U.S. Senate, facing a likely primary against incumbent Kay Bailey Hutchinson, who lost her challenge to Texas Governor Rick Perry this month

Race: U.S. Senate, Texas

Campaign Website: http://www.williamsfortexas.com/

Status: Chickened Out

From his website:

“On December 16, 2008, I began my campaign for the U.S. Senate to succeed Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, as she had pledged to resign her seat. Today, Senator Hutchison announced she will not be resigning her seat in the U.S. Senate.

“I have said from the beginning, I will be a candidate for this seat whenever it comes up. The past 15½ months, we have amassed an unparalleled amount of support for my candidacy for the Senate. I ask those tens of thousands who have signed on to help our campaign to be ready to get to work, helping us elect conservatives in Texas and all across America in 2010.

“With cap and trade looming in the wake of the disastrous health care bill that was recently passed, it is more important than ever that Texans band together to explain to the people in Washington how harmful even more government power grabs will be to our economy and our ability to create jobs. I will continue to be a strong voice on these issues.

"The people of Texas who elected Senator Hutchison also elected me to the Texas Railroad Commission. I have an important job to do, guiding the Texas energy industry. While the timeline for this race has been extended, I will continue going about the job I was elected to do: ensuring Texans have abundant supplies of affordable, clean, reliable and safe energy.”
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3. Reverend Michel Faulkner
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Office: The Reverend Michel Faulkner is running as a Republican in Harlem to replace the ethically embattled Rep. Charles Rangel in New York's 15th Congressional District. An inspirational speaker who has served as a pastor in northern Manhattan for the past 20 years, Faulkner is also known for:

• played a season for the hometown favorite New York Jets;

• He is campaigning on an anti-corruption, pro-growth platform;

• ” I believe that the American Dream has been stolen by greed and corruption, causing hard-working, peace-loving people to become apathetic about democracy and, when that happens, democracy does not work.”

• Won't Go Negative Against Rangel:
  Just about everyone believes Rangel is a lock to win yet another term in Congress representing this district that includes Harlem and Spanish Harlem, making it all the more curious why his rival won't use the ethics issue against him.
  
  "He did it. But there are others that did worse," former NFL player and Harlem pastor Michel Faulkner, a Republican, said in a Thursday interview with CQ-Roll Call.
  
  "They threw him under the bus. They threw Maxine Waters under the bus. The Democratic Party is showing its true colors. I think the Democratic Party is racist. I'll say it."
  
  Faulkner, who is African-American, vowed not to go negative against Rangel in his quest to unseat the 20-term incumbent.
  
  "If I was willing to run a negative campaign, I take this [race] running away," he said. "But I'm not going to do that. He's already got enough stuff out there on him."
  
  The one issue Faulkner doesn't shy away from, however, is the allegation that Rangel had multiple rent-controlled apartments: "That's greed. People in my district say that's the straw that broke the camel's back."​

Website: http://www.faulknerforcongress.com/


Demographics:

For more than a generation, Harlem has been considered the preeminent black neighborhood in America. But depending on how you define the neighborhood, it may no longer be a majority black area.

[The 15th congressional District] reaches from the northern tip of Manhattan island down south of Harlem, is:

• 45% non-white Hispanic,

• 31% black; and

• 21% white, according to U.S. Census estimates for 2006-2008.

• While the core of Harlem is still mostly African-American, the area now
  boasts big-box retailers and new developments that would have been unheard
  of decades ago. “The demographics are changing, there is more opportunity,
  more home ownership,’’ said Calvin Butts, pastor at the Abyssinian Baptist
  Church in Harlem and president of SUNY College at Old Westbury.
  
  Besides the growing Hispanic population, “whites are moving uptown, blacks have
  been living in Chelsea and Tribeca,’’ Butts mused. “If we’re ever going to get to a
  post-racial society, one of the best illustrations is probably going to be Manhattan
  island.’’

Status:

• Ran unopposed in Republican Primary; and

• <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Faces Democrat Charlie Rangel on November 2, 2010</span>

 

[QueEx]

How many of the above 32 made it through the primaries and will be on the general ballot.

Probably just the ones that ran unopposed in an already Congressional Black Caucus district.

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4. Allen West
</font size>

<font size="3">Allen West is a highly decorated retired Army lieutenant colonel who resigned with full benefits after an investigation for misconduct in Iraq. His troops were accused of harshly interrogating an Iraqi police officer they believed had given information to insurgent forces that targeted U.S. soldiers. West was accused of firing a pistol near the man’s head. When asked if he would act the same way during a subsequent inquest, West defended his actions saying, “If it's about the lives of my men and their safety, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.” </font size>

• He campaigned unsuccessfully for Florida’s 22nd District in 2008; and

• Is trying again in 2010.

Website: http://www.allenwestforcongress.com/


Notable Statement: I don’t see myself as African American, Black American. I see myself as an American http://www.therightscoop.com/lt-col...an-black-american-i-see-myself-as-an-american


Opponent: Democrat Joe Klein

Demographics

• As of August 1, 2008, the Miami-Dade portion of the district had 260,561 registered voters of which 110,278 are registered Republicans, 85,635 registered Democrats, 55,147 registered as having no party affiliation, and 9,501 registered with smaller parties.

• As of July 7, 2008, the Broward portion of the district has 60,173 registered voters of which 17,790 are registered Repblicans, 26,988 registered Democrats, 17,790 registered No Party Affiliation, and 2,304 registered Other.

• Overall, Republicans enjoy a slight (less than 5%) registration advantage in the district over Democrats.

Polls: RealClearPolitics <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00"> rates this race a TOSS-UP</SPAN>

 

[QueEx]

• <font size="3">Since the civil-rights era, there have been only three African-American
  Republicans elected to Congress:
  
  
  • <font size="3">Massachusetts' Ed Brooke, </font size>
  
  
  • <font size="3">Connecticut's Gary Franks, and </font size>
  
  
  • <font size="3">Oklahoma's JC Watts,</font size>
  
  while there have been 93 Democrats. </font size>

• <font size="3">In 1956, Dwight Eisenhower won 39 percent of the African-American vote. </font size>

• <font size="3">By 1980, only 10 percent voted for Reagan; </font size>

• <font size="3">Against Barack Obama, John McCain was only able to win 4 percent of the black vote.</font size>

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-18/the-gops-new-race-card/

 

[QueEx]

How many of the above 32 made it through the primaries and will be on the general ballot.

Probably just the ones that ran unopposed in an already Congressional Black Caucus district.

<font size="5">5. Ryan Frazier
</font size>

<font size="3">Ryan Frazier is a highly regarded 31-year old city councilman from Aurora, Colorado, who is seen as a rising star among Western conservatives. He considered running for the U.S. Senate before switching his sights to the 7th Congressional District.</font size>

Website: http://www.frazierforcolorado.com/


Republican Primary:

• Ryan Frazier (R) 26,693 64%

• Lang Sias (R) 14,792 36%

November 2, 2010 Opponent: Democrat Incumbent, Ed Perlmutter

Polls: Real Clear Politics rates the District as Leaning Democrat

However, the last poll has Frazier ahead by 1%

 

[QueEx]

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6. Princella Smith
</font size>

<font size="3">Princella Smith is a 26 year old who won a 2004 MTV public-speaking contest that got her a speaking slot at that year’s Republican National Convention. She is running for an open seat in the 1st District of Arkansas, which is trending Republican.

Status: Lost in Republican Primary
</font size>

• 
  
  Rick Crawford
  14,422
  72%

• 
  
  Princella Smith
  5,671
  28%

<font size="4">Former Joseph Cao aide Princella Smith fails in bid for House seat of her own</font size>

Princella Smith, former communications director for Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao,
R-New Orleans, won't be making history this year.

Smith left her jobwith Cao earlier this year to return home to Arkansas and launch a bidfor Congress from the state's 1st District, now represented by DemocratMarion Berry, who is retiring.

If elected, Smith, 26, would have been the first black female Republican to serve in Congress. But inTuesday's GOP primary, Smith lost the Republican primary to RickCrawford, winning 32 percent of the vote.

In a message to supporters, Smith wrote: "I hope I've been a positive example for young people across the nation that great things are possible when you work hard. The fight of my generation has just begun: We'll be tackling this outrageous debt and correcting the flawed policies of this administration for the rest of our lives. ... I can't wait to begin the next phase of my life and will remain committed to communicating our conservative values of Democracy, good government and personal responsibility. As my mentor, Newt Gingrich, reminded me, it wasn't until his third run for Congress that he won election."

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/05/former_cao_aide_princella_smit.html

​

 

[QueEx]

<font size="5">

7. Vernon Parker
</font size>

<font size="3">Mr. Parker is the mayor of Paradise Valley, Ariz. “There is no denying that one of the things that came out of the election of Obama was that you have a lot of African-Americans running in both parties now,” said Vernon Parker, who is running for an open seat in Arizona’s Third District. His competition in the Aug. 24 primary includes the son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, Ben Quayle. </font size>


Website: http://www.parker2010.com/


Status: Lost in Republican Primary

• QUAYLE, BEN - R
  14266
  22.7 %

• MOAK, STEVE - R
  11333
  18.0 %

• WARING, JIM - R
  10937
  17.4 %

• PARKER, VERNON B. - R
  10584
  16.8 %

• GORMAN, PAMELA - R
  5046
  8.0

• MORRIS, PAULINA - R
  4773
  7.6

• CRUMP, SAM - R
  3127
  5.0

• WINKLER, ED - R
  1057
  1.7

• BRANCH, BOB - R
  882
  1.4

• HULL, LEANN - R
  813
  1.3

 

[thoughtone]

The only so called Black elected republican of the last 20 years I would vote for was J C Watts.

 

[Lamarr]

The only so called Black elected republican of the last 20 years I would vote for was J C Watts.

out of curiosity, why JC Watts?

name recognition or substance?

 

[thoughtone]

out of curiosity, why JC Watts?

name recognition or substance?

You come out of the wood work when you want too. Your Republican stripes are showing!

During the Clinton administration, Watts didn't reject out of hand Democratic ideas, which was/is the Republican's practice. He truly appeared to be interested in solving issues in the so called "Black" community. He finally left congress because the Republicans refused to elect him as a leader to any major committees. Republicans shot themselves in the foot when they didn't tout Watts, Gary Franks and Colin Powell. Instead, they put wackos such as Alan Keyes and Star Parker at the political fore front of their party.

 

[Lamarr]

You come out of the wood work when you want too. Your Republican stripes are showing!

economics, mostly shapes my political views. Those are mainly the topics I post on.

As a contribution to the thread though, if the Repubs would adopt a more non-interventionist foreign policy, I possibly, could support them. It's the position of MLK. Until then, I'll stay a registered Independent

 

[thoughtone]

economics, mostly shapes my political views. Those are mainly the topics I post on.

As a contribution to the thread though, if the Repubs would adopt a more non-interventionist foreign policy, I possibly, could support them. It's the position of MLK. Until then, I'll stay a registered Independent

I possibly, could support them.

That's all you support!

Paul, Armey, Schiff...

BTW, what happen to Senator Schiff?

The people of Connecticut won't make that mistake again!

 

[Lamarr]

That's all you support!

Paul, Armey, Schiff...

BTW, what happen to Senator Schiff?

The people of Connecticut won't make that mistake again!

not necessarily, I supported Harold Ford's run for Senate against Corker, in TN.

Schiff got railroaded by Linda McMahon's $30 million dollar warchest in the primaries. His message is still truthful & he tried and is still trying to tell the public the dangers of all the reckless policies of the last 2 admins.

And who the fuck is Armey?

 

[Lamarr]

not necessarily, I supported Harold Ford's run for Senate against Corker, in TN.

Wow, strictly a coincidence. I just saw a post made at the same time as I was typing this one

 

[thoughtone]

not necessarily, I supported Harold Ford's run for Senate against Corker, in TN.

Schiff got railroaded by Linda McMahon's $30 million dollar warchest in the primaries. His message is still truthful & he tried and is still trying to tell the public the dangers of all the reckless policies of the last 2 admins.

And who the fuck is Armey?

Talk about no integrity! Harold Ford tried to out right wing Corker and got played. Then he went to New York State and claimed to be a liberal. Same result. Good riddance!

Linda McMahon is all about your free market theories.
Schiff was a weak opponent with Wall Street theories. Kendrick Meek in Florida defeated Billionaire Jeff Green for the Democratic Senate seat and Green spent $30 millions of his own cabbage. Didn't help. Try again!
Again, can I get your endorsement for totally publicly funded electrons?

Come on Lamarr: Dick Armey, Freedom Works, Tea Baggers?