The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
Posted on 01/14/2012 9:52:02 AM PST by Baynative
If Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love wins her bid for Congress, she will be the first black Republican congresswoman in history. But don’t try to put her in that box.
~snip~ If she does receive significant media attention, Love hopes to use the opportunity to express a conservative message that has too few African American champions.
“Any time I’m in front of that camera … I’m going to champion those conservative causes. I’m going to let people out there know that we exist, and that … there are conservative black Americans everywhere that believe in fiscal discipline, limited government and personal responsibility,” she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
bttt
I think you’re right. GOOD CATCH!
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
I wish her candidacy well.
Not until she proves who she says she is. I will not waste my money and time on any more who pretend.
Nice lapel pin. Oh yeah!
(History break!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans_in_the_United_States_Congress
“Blacks were a majority of the population in many (post civil war) congressional districts across the South. In 1870, Joseph Rainey of South Carolina was elected to the US House of Representatives, becoming the first directly elected black member of Congress. Freedmen were elected to national office also from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia.”
“All of these Reconstruction era black senators and representatives were members of the Republican Party. The Republicans represented the party of Abraham Lincoln and of emancipation. The Southern Democrats represented the party of planters, slavery and secession.”
“From 1868, southern elections were accompanied by increasing violence, especially in Louisiana, Mississippi and the Carolinas. In the mid-1870s, paramilitary groups such as the White League and Red Shirts worked openly to turn Republicans out of office and intimidate blacks from voting. This followed on the earlier years of secret vigilante action by the Ku Klux Klan against freedmen and allied whites.”
“After the disputed Presidential election of 1876 between Democratic Samuel J. Tilden, governor of New York, and Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, governor of Ohio, a national agreement between Democratic and Republican factions was negotiated, resulting in the Compromise of 1877. Under the compromise, Democrats conceded the election to Hayes and promised to acknowledge the political rights of blacks; Republicans agreed to no longer intervene in southern affairs and promised to appropriate a portion of federal monies toward southern projects.”
(Seemed like a good place to post this. History break over!)
Career liberal politician Matheson needs to go, he’s spent his entire life sucking off the govt. tit, living the good life off of his Daddy’s name, and gotten more than a little rich at the expense of taxpayers. Broom this assclown out, Utah!
Where is Saratoga Springs? Is this in Florida?
Utah - just south of Salt Lake City
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