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Black GOP Groups Woo Mfume to Back Steele
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Sep 21, 2006 11:43am |
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| Category | Strategy |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Thursday, September 21, 2006 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Black Republican groups emerged from the political margins yesterday, launching a campaign to persuade African American voters to support Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele's bid for the U.S. Senate.
The push was evident in a Baltimore radio advertisement targeting African American listeners that was sponsored by the Washington-based National Black Republican Association. The ad identifies Martin Luther King Jr. as a Republican and pins the founding of the Ku Klux Klan on Democrats.
One woman says: "Democrats passed those black codes and Jim Crow laws. Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan."
"The Klan?" her friend replies. "White hoods and sheets?"
First woman: "Democrats fought all civil rights legislation from the 1860s to the 1960s. Democrats released those vicious dogs and fire hoses on blacks."
Second woman: "Seriously?" |
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