Posted on 09/25/2005 9:33:10 AM PDT by LdSentinal
He's been courted by the likes of Jeb Bush, Charlie Crist and legions of Tampa Bay Republican activists. Last week, Darryl Rouson, the never dull former president of the St. Petersburg NAACP, took the plunge and became a Republican.
"It's our heritage, and it can be our legacy," said Rouson, invoking past Republicans including Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver and Frederick Douglass. "I know it's not a very popular thing among a lot of African-Americans, but I just believe we should be at every table and speak the truth."
The St. Petersburg lawyer and vocal antidrug crusader had already widely been seen as a closet Republican, but he was registered with no party affiliation.
His party switch comes at a time when some Republicans are worried their party's efforts to chip away at a crucial Democratic voting block was badly damaged by the images of many African-Americans left behind in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans. Rouson said that he initially thought racism played a role in the clumsy response to Katrina but that he came to see that the New Orleans mayor and Louisiana governor, both Democrats, shared much of the blame.
Rouson avidly supports Republican Attorney General Charlie Crist for governor, and he has no plans to run for office himself: "I am running for the deposit line at the local bank, and anyone who wants to run with me can."
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Welcome home sir. Now please roll up your sleeves. We have much to do and your help is essential.
He left the plantation to become a Republican. Other African Americans would do well to reassess the big nothing they have gotten from the big democrat lies for 40 years. The only thing they get from the democrats is continued poverty.
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"I am running for the deposit line at the local bank, and anyone who wants to run with me can."
I love that!
-Rouson said that he initially thought racism played a role in the clumsy response to Katrina but that he came to see that the New Orleans mayor and Louisiana governor, both Democrats, shared much of the blame.-
Sounds like another crossover to further weaken any remaining conservative aspects of the GOP to me. "I just believe we should be at every table and speak the truth." Maybe that's the entire goal - to be at the table, asking for money?
He was, until - what, a week ago? - ready to call us all racists, and now we're going to embrace him. I prefer to use caution.
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Man, that's no lie. Some posts have me checking to make sure I'm still on FR.
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