As if the Republican Party was the bastion of civil rights.
Avman is on a roll over at Louisiana Conservative. See, he tries to spin the Cazayoux robocall issue into an issue of racism. He also grasps for straws (yet again), by attacking ”Act Blue” for being “biased” in this election. However, according to the Act Blue website:
Contributions made via the ActBlue website are just like contributions through other means (e.g. on a candidate’s web site, through the mail, at a fundraiser). ActBlue just helps deliver your contribution to the candidate.
So there you go. The fact that more funds came from Act Blue means that Cazayoux had more supporters. Call me crazy but it seems to me that if someone has more supporters they tend to win elections. Perhaps Avman should not comment on things he does not know about. He then continues to assert racism by stating:
With friends like the Democrat party, minorities don’t need a KKK. Who needs the KKK when you’ve got the DNC? No wonder why minorities feel so oppressed, trusting guys like these Democrats?
Yeah, because the KKK tends to support Democrats.. right? That is why David Duke ran for Governor as a Democrat, right? OH YEAH, thats right. He ran as a Republican! Many former “states rights southern Democrats” left the party after the Democratic party picked up the mantle of civil rights. Nixon and Reagan used the “southern strategy” to target the racists in order to win. But if Avman wants to make the rest of us laugh while trying to equate the DNC with the KKK, he is free to make a fool of himself.
Avman aslo gives us this gem:
Michael Jackson ought to run as an independent, Darrell Glasper should stick to his guns, and the Democrat party really needs to quit taking black people for granted.
He is 1/3 right. Darrell Glasper should refrain from saying that his messages are supported by a candidate if they are not. Michael Jackson, if he runs as an independent, could help the Republicans win in the fall. (No wonder why Avman wants that to happen). I do feel that the Democratic voters in LA06 are smarter than Avman gives them credit for. They will realize that voting against the Democrat will be cutting off their noses to spite their faces since it would allow the Republican to win.
However, Avman is right in that Democrats definitely should not take any members of their party for granted. I do think that some members of our party do take certain voting blocks for granted. We need to make sure that we are loyal to those who bring us to the dance.
May 6th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
His article is somewhat misleading in that it implies the Party apparatus favored one candidate over another during the primary election.
Remember, ostensibly, the reason Glasper was compelled to make the robocalls is because Jackson was somehow rebuffed by the Party. Unfortunately for Glasper and Avman, that’s just not true.
ActBlue has nothing to do with the Party. It’s a reflection of INDIVIDUAL donors in the grassroots.
Anyway, I am not sure what the heck the KKK has to do with anything or why some people even raise the specter of the KKK so flippantly.
He uses some really loaded language: “whip up on a black guy,” etc. Maybe he thinks this will attract some attention, but I doubt it can inspire a meaningful dialog.
Moreover and more importantly, THE FIRST BLOG ENTRY ABOUT DARRELL GLASPER’S RACE WAS AT LOUISIANACONSERVATIVE.COM. It wasn’t me at CenLamar. It wasn’t Ryan at the Daily Kingfish. And it wasn’t the folks on the list serve who broke this story.
Glasper defected to the Republican Party! This isn’t about racial politics; it’s about party politics.
May 6th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Avman likes to try and play the race card whenever possible, bringing up the false idea that the Democratic party is not the better of the two parties when it comes to equal rights for all people.
Sometimes Republicans amaze me though. I have seen them tell white racists in the 2006 LA01 election to not vote for Democrats because Democrats are “N****R LOVERS” and then turn around and tell black people to not vote for Democrats because they take black people for granted.
May 6th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
It’s troubling to me how hyperbolic they think they can be in acceptable conversation.