Black Republican group loses half its members.....only had 15 of them.

[madfloridian]

I had heard of this group previously, and I am so glad to see CNN telling it like it is about them. I would say they do not speak for too many folks in endorsing Bush's Katrina efforts and in endorsing John Roberts.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/20/sr.tues/index.html?section=cnn_latest

"This is one of several events this week which deal with the issues of race and poverty that have become forefront, and politicized, in the wake of Katrina. While Democrats from Bill Clinton to Howard Dean have leveled charges of racism against the Administration, there are still a few African Americans with higher profiles who contend that local mismanagement, rather than class or race, is to blame for the hundreds dead, and the homeless and jobless diaspora of thousands.

Frances Rice, chair of the National Black Republican Association says, "The NBRA applauds President Bush for his leadership, compassion and bold initiatives to help the people and rebuild New Orleans. It is shameful how the Democrats are using a natural disaster and the sufferings of African Americans to inflame racial divisiveness and further their partisan political agenda of keeping blacks poor, angry and voting for Democrats."

Ms. Rice's organization, the NBRA, was started about a month ago - and had reached a membership of approximately 15 individuals before the Hurricane struck. After disputes over whether or not to endorse Judge John Roberts, and then later, to endorse President Bush in the wake of the hurricane, the organization lost nearly half of its members, including three Executive Committee members."

[KingFlorez]

1. HA HA

15 members? That's not an organization, there are high school clubs larger than that.

[Arkana]

2. How can you lose half a member?

:evilgrin:

What, are they down to 7.5 members now?

[AspenRose]

3. "Chickens for Col. Sanders"

eom

[calico1]

7. My feelings exactly. What on Earth are

people like this thinking?

[madfloridian]

4. Their website is down, but a link leads to a blog by its leader, Rice.

http://www.edico.org/nines.htm

"it has been no secret that the GOP has minorities on it’s mind…KenMehlman has not minced words with his objective to reach out to the minorities that are wavering about the baggage heavy Democratic platform…quietly last week the fruit of this labor, The National Black Republicans Association, has unveiled a website www.nbra.info that is geared to wrapping it’s arms around the urban-conservative movement. With a simple message of promoting the traditional values of black communities; strong families, personal responsibility, quality education and hard work…pretty basic goldwater-esque ideals…with a surge of prominent Republican black candidates in the mix for Senate, Congress, and in our own backyard with Otto Banks city council bid and Lynn Swann’s run for the Governor, this is not a whim on the GOP’s part, this is a defining part of their identity…they know that they have been sadly lacking in reaching out to the black community in the past. Wisely Mehlman has not writen this off and is not going to walk away from this dynamic block of vote, the writing is not in the paper, it is on the wall for the Dem’s with their assumption that the black vote will always be a gimmie for their candidates…"

It leads to this blog.
http://newleadership.blogspot.com/2005/09/real-grassroots-organizing.html

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Wow

I didn't even know there was such a group.

[warrens]

6. Hilarious

Three of its executive board? 15 members? Were they all on the board? God, I hate repukes.

[gratuitous]

8. Another astroturf bit of staging

And yet CNN finds the time to report on a 15-member group founded less than a month ago. When will CNN find time to report on Women in Black or Iraq Veterans Against the War? These are two groups with far larger memberships and far longer records of existence than some stage prop group designed solely to buttress a failed administration's sagging poll numbers.

[TlalocW]

9. What are the chances

That the person running this organization is a white male, kind of like Concerned Women for America?

TlalocW

[RandomKoolzip]

10. The real story here is.....

This fringe group with fifteen members STILL gets treated like a legitimate organization and STILL gets airtime on CNN because of their rightist leanings, while dozens of legitimate, well-meaning, well-populated organizations on the left, like MoveOn, DFA, and GreenPeace, get treated like lone wackos in the mainstream press because of their leftist leanings. When was the last time CNN reported the views of some tiny fringe-left group like ELF without some damning commentary?

[GayCanuck]

11. Uncle Toms

what a joke.