Race Boating: Swift Boat Backer Funds Racist Mail

by: GlennWSmith

Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 11:41

Swift Boat funder Robert Perry, a top national Republican donor, is funding overtly racist attack mail this cycle. It's not Swift Boating. It's Race Boating.

A group called "Empower Texans," chaired by Tim Dunn of Midland, an associate of Republican Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick, attacked Democratic state House candidate Joel Redmond of Pasadena with a direct mail piece featuring fuzzy images of black and Hispanic lawmakers (plus Barack Obama), several black birds resembling crows, and a picture of the white Redmund. The tag line: "Birds of a feather flock together."

Anyone with any racial sensitivity gets the meaning of the mailer: Redmond has betrayed whites by befriending people of color. He can't be trusted.

This is happening in the Houston area, down the road from Tom DeLay. George Bush's hometown. While an African-American, Barack Obama, is the Democratic nominee for president.

Today's Race Boaters aren't like the Swift Boaters. They ARE the Swift Boaters. Bob Perry. Tom DeLay. Tom Craddick. The same people whose 2002 campaign funding scheme led to Tuesday's guilty plea from the Texas Association of Business, another organization with close ties to the Race Boaters. That plea came from the same investigation that led to the indictment against DeLay.

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wow that's subtle (4.00 / 1)

what are Redmond's chances and is there a link to contribute?

by: tremayne @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 11:10:01 AM CDT

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Here's the donate page (4.00 / 1)

Thanks for asking. Redmond's chances are good. Here's the donate.

http://www.joelredmond.com/don...

by: GlennWSmith @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 11:35:17 AM CDT

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A Naive Question (4.00 / 1)

Are all Republicans raciest or just most?

There are two die hard Republicans in our family and they clearly are racist. The also are very inwardly frighten people. And, yes they own guns.

With one if you bring up politics he leaves the table. The other one used the family e-mail list to send out his propaganda. Families are funny and I ain't blood. After the third e-mail I blasted him and sent my reply to everyone on the list. I got lots of private e-mails from family members thanking me. I also got lots of e-mails from his hater friends.

by: steve katz @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 11:48:17 AM CDT

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No, not all (4.00 / 1)

It's true that in the South, post-Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts, racism fueled the rise of the Republican party. I count as racist someone who acts on their bigotry, not someone who still carries the worm. Many have overcome it. Some never had it.

Mail like this is aimed at overt racists. It's really GOTV mail, not persuasion mail.

by: GlennWSmith @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 12:11:03 PM CDT

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I'd been hoping (0.00 / 0)

I'd been looking for a silver lining in the terrible collapse of home values and the dramatic effects of the crisis on the housing industry, frankly hoping to see Bob Perry go bankrupt like so many other builders and developers. But I guess I have to keep waiting.

by: Woody @ Wed Oct 22, 2008 at 12:31:43 PM CDT

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