Steele vows to represent 'the 'hood'

[KingFlorez]

He's really trying to use race to win this election. I find this to be sort of patronizing to black voters, giving the notion that all blacks use that sort of terminology.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20060711-103044-7927r.htm

Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele yesterday said his U.S. Senate campaign aims to bring "the 'hood" with him to Capitol Hill.
"The 'hood is going to show up on the Hill," said Mr. Steele, a black Republican. "That is what this campaign is all about, and that scares some people when I say stuff like that -- on both sides of the aisle, God bless them."
He said he delivered a similar message to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican supporting Mr. Steele's candidacy.
"I told him, 'Be careful what you wish for -- a brother shows up, I bring people,'?" Mr. Steele said to about 70 supporters at the opening of his state campaign headquarters in Temple Hills. "You have all had one of those picnics, right?"
The remark drew laughter and cheers from the crowd.
Former Prince George's County Executive Wayne K. Curry attended the event and said the speech echoed Mr. Steele's "philosophy of opening doors to opportunity" for all races and economic classes.
"There is still disparities between races and classes," Mr. Curry said. "He is saying that he plans to tackle that. I think these are noble ideas and I think the attention is long overdue."

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Great idea. This ought to sink his campaign.

What a low class whore................

[TrueFunkSoldier]

2. He may as well have said...

"I'll bring the watermelon, fried chicken and 50 Cent videos with me, too!"

This is disgusting. This is what I feared would happen. It's o.k. for black Repugs to charge that Dems use race to get elected, but here he is doing the same dispicable thing!! This is absolutely deplorable. My hope that other blacks don't fall for it. I'm praying that they don't.

Steele couldn't go to Hartford County and speak like that. Why would he patronize us like this?

Lynn Swann is doing the same thing in PA. It's just disgusting, these black Repugs!

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Swann struggles in rookie political season By PETER JACKSON, Associated Press Writer
Wed Jul 12, 4:32 PM ET

Lynn Swann was known on the football field for making his most spectacular catches with the game on the line. It won him four Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers, a spot in the Hall of Fame and a celebrity that has catapulted him to the Republican nomination for governor.

But in his rookie season in politics, the smooth-talking Swann often has failed to find his footing, struggling to articulate his vision beyond the bumper-sticker shorthand of tax cuts, spending caps and government reform.

And while he is still greeted on the campaign trail by football-toting fans seeking his autograph as well as a handshake, it has yet to translate into the kind of support he will need to become Pennsylvania's first black governor.


He visited 19 counties, but made his most concentrated push in black neighborhoods in heavily Democratic Philadelphia. His campaign strategists say making even small inroads among blacks — and winning back Republicans in the Philadelphia suburbs who helped elect Rendell in 2002 — are key to a Swann victory in the Nov. 7 election.

An early convert was Frederick Cooper, who owns a short-order restaurant with an outdoor eating area on a street corner in West Philadelphia. There, Swann and his wife, Charena, helped scoop sweetly flavored water ice into tiny cups for a line of sweltering customers.


More here:

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[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Very good points. Pandering 101. And welcome to DU.

[donsu]

3. Steele is a neo con

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