Rand Paul In Ferguson–Another Jack Kemp Zombie?
Rand Paul is meeting with NAACP leaders in Ferguson, Missouri with another master plan for the Republicans to win the black vote.
The Kentucky Republican, who said his meeting went “very well,” said he laid out his views on demilitarizing police, reforming the criminal justice system and boosting urban economies.“I don’t want to characterize how everybody else feels about what I said, but I think it was a good opening to the conversation,” Paul said in an interview set to air Friday. “I think in the Republican Party, the biggest mistake we’ve made in the last several decades is we haven’t gone into the African American community, into the NAACP and say you know what, we are concerned about what’s going on in your cities and we have plans. They may be different than the Democrats, but we do have plans and we do want to help.”According to his office, participants in the meeting included members of the NAACP, the Urban League and several local business and church leaders.Paul was one of the most outspoken Republicans about the police response to protests that followed the August shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager who was killed by a police officer in Ferguson.[What Rand Paul thinks is the 'biggest mistake' for GOP, by Ashley Killough, CNN, October 10, 2014]
And what is this master plan? What is the thing that will transformblack neighborhoods into the equivalent of Hong Kong?
Tax cuts. ...
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