THESE BLACK ATTACK DOGS ARE WELL FED
"The sham of GOP Black voter outreach is over and the true Republican mission has begun: suppress the African American vote, by any means possible. To that end, the Bush men have enlisted the mercenary services of Black front groups invented by rightwing foundations in the Nineties to push for school vouchers and other elements of the Republican agenda. These bought-and-paid-for servants of the Hard Right took to the airwaves in August calling themselves People of Color United and spending a rich white Republican man�s money to attack Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry as �rich, white and wishy-washy.�
Virginia Walden-Ford, the operative who placed the attack ads on Black-oriented radio stations in the �battlefield� states of Pennsylvania, Missouri, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, is for all practical purposes a paid agent of the Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is a founding board member of the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO), the pro-school vouchers group conceived, birthed and jump-started with at least $2 million in 1999 by the far-right Bradley and Walton Family Foundations (Wal-Mart). Since George Bush assumed office, BAEO and a host of its vouchers/privatization siblings � each the incestuous spawn of the Right�s foundation funding network � have collected over $77 million dollars in grants from Secretary Rod Paige�s Education Department. In effect, Virginia Walden-Ford�s BAEO � which received $1.3 million in federal funds � has been �graduated� to a Bush administration functionary, while continuing to be subsidized by the Walton family, Bradley, and other far-right moneybags. These Black attack dogs are well fed.
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Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the Black Democratic Congresswoman from Cleveland and co-chair of the Democratic National Committee, declared:[...]�The reason they�re running these ads�is that Bush has no record with regard to African Americans he can run on, so what he�s going to do is go to the negative side. They are denigrating to African Americans, to think that African Americans would be stirred by an ad such as this to suppress the Black vote. The ads are paid for by white, rich Republicans.�
Republicans do not exist in statistically significant numbers in Black America, despite Armstrong Williams� high profile in the corporate media and Clarence Thomas� odious presence on the Supreme Court. Bush will certainly get more Black votes than he deserves, based on actual commonality of opinion � somewhere around the 8 percent he got in 2000. But the inferential data are more dismal for the Republicans than in any election since 1964."
The Black Commentator 02.Sep.04
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