WaPo: GOP Plans More Outreach to Blacks, Mehlman Says [View All]

[Penndems]

Goal Is to Broaden Party Base, Help Swing Future Races

By Michael A. Fletcher
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 7, 2005; Page A05

ATLANTA -- Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman stood before a roomful of black journalists last week fielding pointed questions about his party's mostly shaky relationship with black voters.

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"I can't go to the party with Democrats right now because they are playing some strange music," said Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr., a registered Democrat and pastor of Hope Christian Church in College Park. Jackson said he opposes abortion rights and same-sex marriage.

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Often, Mehlman speaks in deeply personal terms. He told the black journalists that he views open housing, voting rights and civil rights bills passed in the 1960s as the most important laws of the 20th century. He also invoked his late grandfather, a Baltimore shopkeeper, who was a member of the NAACP.

He then went into his pitch, asking black voters to give the GOP another look: "The Republican Party will not be whole again until more African Americans come back home."

Link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/06/AR2005080601165.html
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Split up unions, infiltrate black churches. All part of the plan to destroy the base of the Democratic Party.

I posted a link early this year to a story in Salon.com that spelled out the GOP's plan to do just that. If I can find that link, I'll post it.




(on edit: add WaPo story link)