Cheney hosts Republican fundraiser at racist country club

[DogPoundPup]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Cheney visited Alabama on Friday for a closed-door Republican fundraiser at an exclusive country club best known for protests over its all-white membership 18 years ago.

Party officials defended the decision to have Cheney appear at Shoal Creek Golf Club, located in a private, gated community near Birmingham. The club, with a price tag of $65,000 to join, now has a few black members.((Club officials now say four of its 600 members are black. Not many people in Alabama can afford to be members of the invitation-only club, black or white. Along with the initiation fee of $65,000, monthly dues are about $500.

Democrats said staging such an event at Shoal Creek showed how little the Republicans care about openness.

"It's a little bit baffling. I know they need the money, but the symbolism of where he's going and what he's doing just reeks of why American voters want change," said Joe Turnham, chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party

http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20080801/APN/808010912

[Cassandra]

1. So?

Just the expected quote from Herr Cheney.

[MidwestTransplant]

2. So with a twist of "go fu*k yourself"

[npk]

3. How is this news?

This what the re pukes do. They host events at private expensive as all hell on earth, so as to be guaranteed to make a shit load of money for their benefactor. They have been doing this for eons. It's not racism some dems do the same shit. Just because the golf club only has 4 black members doesn't mean it's a racists club, it just means a lot of black people are smart enough not to blow $65,000 to hit a fucking ball. Lots of people can afford to go there, but they choose not to.