Caught On Audio: Texas Tea Party Leader, “The Republican Party doesn’t want black people to vote”

[Triana]

NOTE: I realize this is not new or news (not to anyone on DU). It's from June 4, 2013. I post it here as a confirmation of what we already know, and in case anyone has good use for the audio or wants to share it! Frankly, the DCCC and DSCC ought to be putting this audio, along with other clips and images in some GOP- and USSC-slamming ads in 2014. But...they won't.

At a Dallas event featuring Steve Munisteri, the Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, Ken Emanuelson, a leader in the Tea Party, said: “I’m going to be real honest with you. The Republican Party doesn’t want black people to vote if they are going to vote 9-to-1 for Democrats.” No kidding? What gave it away? Thank you Captain Obvious.



To hear Emanuelson’s side, Battleground Texas, who published the audio on their website, did a ‘hit piece.’

Emanuelson explains on his Facebook wall, “What I meant, and should have said, is that it is not, in my personal opinion, in the interests of the Republican Party to spend its own time and energy working to generally increase the number of Democratic voters at the polls, and at this point in time, nine of every ten African American voters cast their votes for the Democratic Party.”

SOURCE of article: http://freakoutnation.com/2013/06/04/audio-texas-tea-party-leader-the-republican-party-doesnt-want-black-people-to-vote/

AUDIO: https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F94483448

[ladjf]

1. Wow! What a newsflash! nt

[hobbit709]

2. Or brown people, women, and especially liberals of any stripe.

[truebluegreen]

3. His attempt at clarification was SO much better.

NOT.

[Cirque du So-What]

4. Look! A prick with ears!

How convenient that these racists choose to reveal themselves by sporting the skinhead look.

[jsr]

5. Did the GOP promote him from the skinheads?

[CanonRay]

6. At least he said "black people" instead of something worse

in Texas, that's real progress.

[Triana]

8. +1 n/t

[Berlum]

7. There you have it

Repbulicon Family Hate Values. At the rotten core.

[NastyRiffraff]

9. I missed this originally

but I'm not surprised other than I'd have thought he'd use the N word.

[Martin Eden]

10. "Don't want blacks to vote" is one thing; "Prevent blacks from voting" is another.

And that's what state governments controlled by Republicans are doing -- suppressing the votes of blacks, students, and Democrats any way they can.

[stg81]

11. the problem is theses a-holes are spending their time and energy to PREVENT blacks from voting

[Jamaal510]

12. Time for

the GOP to turn in their freedom-fighters card, then, if they're intent on denying a group of Americans a basic Constitutional right.