NAACP leaders: Fight tea party with voter outreach

[Ed Barrow]

Source: Naples News

The tea party movement sweeping the U.S. political landscape has benefited from voter mobilization techniques pioneered by the NAACP, and the nation's oldest civil rights organization needs to rely on that outreach to fight back in the midterm elections, two NAACP leaders said Saturday.

"I think they took a page out of our own play book, and we have to beat them at their own game. We ought to know how to meet them on the front line," board chairman Roslyn Brock said in a town hall meeting at the NAACP's annual youth leadership summit.

Brock and Benjamin Todd Jealous, the organization's president and CEO, urged their members not to become complacent about their achievements or dissuaded by media attention on small, but loud, gatherings of conservative protesters.

"What they're angry about is we won," Jealous said.


Read more: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/may/29/naacp-leaders-fight-tea-party-voter-outreach/

[Maccagirl]

1. "What they're angry about is we won."

Couldn't have said it better myself. Ironically, race was/is at the core of Clintonhate.

[Kahuna]

2. I agree. Since Clinton, the repukes have been refighting the civil war.

Clinton was about equal opportunity for everyone. The better blacks and latinos did under Clinton, the more they hated him.

[boomerbust]

3. We could have a Teabagger

Going against Feingold here in Wisconsin

[UTUSN]

4. K&R #3 for hear-HEAR!1 The Civil Rights generation zeroed in and are experts in this.

Sorry to say it, but while all minorities benefit from Democratic policies, a large majority of Hispanics just DON'T VOTE, along with other constituent groups of the Dem coalition. If everybody eligible to vote WOULD vote, there wouldn't be a Rethug in office anywhere.

[PSPS]

5. "sweeping the U.S. political landscape"?

The tea party movement sweeping the U.S. political landscape has benefited from voter mobilization techniques pioneered by the NAACP, and the nation's oldest civil rights organization needs to rely on that outreach to fight back in the midterm elections, two NAACP leaders said Saturday.

I think this article shows it's the "media landscape" that it's "sweeping."