Dear Republican Party...

UPDATE BELOW


This is NOT how to attract minorities to the GOP.

Also, this is the reason African-American voters vote with the Democratic Party.  HINT:  It's not because the Democrats give African-Americans "free stuff," or, as so many GOPers and Teapublicans claim, because the Democrats keep them "enslaved."   

No.  None of that.

This is the reason, and it's pretty ugly:



Texas tea party leader: GOP doesn’t want black people to vote 
 By Eric W. Dolan 
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 

EDTA tea party leader in Dallas is facing a backlash after saying the Republican Party doesn’t want African-American voters to show up at the polls. 

 “I’m going to be real honest with you,” Tea Party leader Ken Emanuelson said at a Dallas County Republican Party event on May 20. 

“The Republican Party doesn’t want black people to vote if they are going to vote 9-to-1 for Democrats.” 

 An audio recording of his comments were published online Tuesday by the pro-Democrat group Battleground Texas.


And this is NOT how you get women to vote Republican:

"The Washington Post reported yesterday that, “Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) said Tuesday that America’s educational troubles began when women began working outside the home in large numbers.” Bryant was participating in a Washington Post Live event focused on the importance of ensuring that children read well by the end of third grade. 

In response to a question about how America became “so mediocre” in regard to educational outcomes, he said: I think both parents started working. And the mom is in the work place." 


UPDATE:

Here's another example of how the GOP turns off minorities.  This time, the bigoted remark comes from a GWBush-appointed judge.  How would you like to have your case come before a judge who publicly denigrates minorities, and is comfortable about doing so?  Again, this is not some backwater pol shooting off her mouth, this is a SENIOR FEDERAL JUDGE, for gawdsake!


"Civil rights organizations and legal ethics experts filed a judicial misconduct complaint on Tuesday against a senior federal judge, alleging that she made inappropriate statements against minority groups and people with mental disabilities, the New York Times reported. 

According to the San Antonio Express-News, the complaint alleged that Judge Edith H. Jones, of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said in a speech in February at the University of Pennsylvania Law School that African-Americans and Hispanics are "predisposed to crime" and that defendants facing capital punishment who claim "mental retardation" disgust her. 

Jones was a potential Supreme Court nominee during the Bush Administration. Until October, she was the chief judge on the conservative 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. The current chief judge on that circuit, Carl E. Stewart -- the first African-American to fill that post -- will decide whether to dismiss the complaint, speak privately with Jones or order an investigation into the allegations."