Posted on 10/27/2014 2:43:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
Prospects that three term Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu will return to the US Senate to represent Louisiana for a fourth term are looking increasingly bleak. Senator Landrieu has good reason to be concerned.
One reason is disenchantment among Louisiana’s black population, which amounts to 32 percent of the population of the state – the nation’s second largest black population percentage-wise.
Justification for black disillusionment is eloquently and explosively captured in the ad being run by Republican State Senator Elbert Guillory’s FreeAtLast PAC.
Guillory shook things up in 2013 when the then conservative black Democrat announced he was switching to the Republican Party.
In the ad, Guillory stands on Academy Street, in a poor black neighborhood in Opelouses, Louisiana, delivering his message, graphically powerful as the camera pans across the poverty of the neighborhood, that nothing has changed during the 18 years that Mary Landrieu has represented Louisiana in the US Senate.
“Mary Landrieu ran for the Senate in 1996, promising to be a champion for the black community,” says Guillory. “Eighteen years later, little has changed.”
The neighborhood is plagued by the same high poverty and unemployment rates that existed when Landrieu was first elected in 1996.
The ad is really an extension of Guillory’s message since he announced his switch to the Republican Party.
And the ad is unique in that it is about ideas rather than about specific programs.
Most politicking is about attacking a candidate’s position on one program or another or how they voted on one bill or another.
But this ad doesn’t mention one program, one piece of legislation.
It attacks a mindset – a mindset that is hurting America and has been devastating black America for years.
It’s a mindset that looks to politicians and government to solve our problems, rather than assure conditions that allows us to solve our own problems.
“Politicians are not trying to solve our problems,” says Guillory. “They are trying to solve their own problems. Getting elected and re-elected.”
Using the power of government – taxing, borrowing, and spending – under the pretense of solving other people’s problems is very lucrative for the political class.
There are huge disparities in the wealth, fueled by government, in the nation’s capital, compared to poor states like Louisiana.
According to the Census Bureau, median household income in the region of the nation’s capital is the highest in the country. Median income in 2012 in the District of Columbia was $65,246, in Maryland $71,836, and Virginia $64,632.
This compared to the nation’s median household income of $51,017 and a median household income in Louisiana of $39, 085.
As Elbert Guillory points out in his ad, despite all the big government, the economic state of affairs of low-income blacks has changed little over the years.
In a state like Louisiana, which is one of the blackest and poorest states in the country, Elbert Guillory’s message is particularly critical.
The Washington Post recently reported that over the 42 years that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been reporting unemployment data broken out by race, black unemployment has been much higher than white unemployment every year, averaging 115 percent higher over this period.
Why are blacks willing to live with this? Why are blacks willing to accept black household income and wealth languishing?
Why do liberal Democrats, like Mary Landrieu, get a free ride with black voters, election after election, regardless of the results they produce?
It is of critical importance for blacks, and for the rest of the nation, that this dismal state of affairs change.
Mary Landrieu is living the good life, while Louisiana blacks languish, says Elbert Guillory.
Programs and policies are important. But they reflect a mindset. If the mindset is misguided the policies surely will be misguided.
Mary Landrieu should be concerned. Blacks are tired of being taken on a political ride to nowhere.
After she loses....is it to the lobbyist racket for Mary?
I will also add that Mary’s re-election strategy is touting how she has “fought” Barack O’Bama on the big issues ... all while voting the O’Bama-line 97% of the time.
every 6 years this woman is supposed to be in peril of losing her Senate seat and a chunk of Republicans end up helping her easily win reelection.. I’ll believe it when I see it
TALKING POINTS---A (DHS) Intelligence Information Report (focusing on one small region of the vast US-Canadian border) reveals that as of September 9, 2014, there have been 155 encounters in the area “involving African nationals---344 Somalis, 21 Ethiopians, five Kenyans, two Djiboutians, and so on....
DHS SIGNS OFF ON Obama admin's law to let
into the US, immigrants with 'limited' terror contact
The Daily Caller | 2/5/14 / FR Posted by Nachum
The Obama administration has issued new exemptions to a law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose no threat from the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department published the new exemptions Wednesday in the Federal Register to narrow a ban in the Immigration and Nationality Act excluding refugees and asylum seekers who had provided limited material support, no matter how minor, to terrorists.
“These exemptions cover five kinds of limited material support that have adversely and unfairly affected refugees and asylum seekers with no tangible connection to terrorism: material support that was insignificant in amount or provided incidentally in the course of everyday social, commercial, family or humanitarian interactions, or under significant pressure,” a DHS official explained to The Daily Caller.
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry signed the exemptions. DHS contends that the law change is “commonsense” and that immigration procedures will remain the same in other respects. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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Days after the Canadian soldier was shot dead at the military shrine, a hatchet-wielding man, a member of the hallowed "religion of peace," savagely attacked and wounded NYC police officers. Later, kind and compassionate progressive City Officials said they "didn’t believe" the axe-killer had any connection to terrorism......
Of course not...only an intolerant racist would think this kindly man with an axe is (horrors) an actual "terrorist." In fact, the peace-loving axe-wielder meant no harm....he was here at the express invitation of the progressive Obama administration.
sleazy, lowlife, scumbag, vile gutter whore registered Democrat alert...........
It's the same with another well known rat moron, Harry Reid.
Blacks are like the Jews.
Obammy continues to crap,on both groups and they still suport the bastard wholeheartedly.
I suspect she can count on voter fraud... democrats are filth after all... liars - cheats...
You insult Miss Piggy, sir!!
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That’s more like it! Though Babe there still has good reason to be offended. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
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