Frist should have had a list of goodies to buy votes with. Nope. The Republican Party needs blacks that can't be bought off.
That's what we're all about.
The 'path of lea$t resistance' is what the Ds are about.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Michael Zak
Grand_Old_Partisan@hotmail.com
Republicans honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on his Birthday
Washington, DC – January 15, 2003 – In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Conference for a Republican Majority, Black Republican Women International, Republican Youth majority, and other Republican organizations met at the National Press Club to commemorate Dr. King’s legacy and explore ways the Republican Party can contribute toward full implementation of his dream of freedom for all Americans.
The master of ceremonies was William Coleman, former Secretary of Transportation and President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Mr. Coleman called upon Republicans to remember their party’s commitment to civil rights, pointing out that most civil rights laws throughout our nation’s history were Republican initiatives. Among the honored guests was Senator Lincoln Chafee, who expressed great pride in having been named in honor of the Great Emancipator.
The keynote speaker was Michael Zak, author of Back to Basics for the Republican Party, the acclaimed history of the GOP from the Republican point of view (see www.republicanbasics.com). In highlighting Martin Luther King’s career, Mr. Zak recounted Republican achievements, such as:
· the Republican Party was founded as a civil rights movement, in opposition to the Democrats’ pro-slavery policies
· the 13th Amendment freeing the slaves, the14th Amendment extending the Bill of Rights to the states, and the 15th Amendment extending voting rights to blacks had been enacted by the Republican Party against fierce Democrat opposition
· the judge who had ruled in favor of Rosa Parks and then championed Dr. King at Selma, Alabama and elsewhere was a Republican and had been Eisenhower’s state campaign manager
· Republicans supported the 1957 Civil Rights Act, the 1960 Civil Rights Act, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act much more than did the Democrats
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