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A Texas tea party \u201cpatriot\u201d says he misspoke about Republicans\u2019 desire to keep African Americans from voting.<\/p>\n

Just when I thought the tea party crowd was revealing its true colors \u2026<\/p>\n

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Ken Emanuelson admitted that he made a mistake when he said the GOP doesn\u2019t want African Americans to vote because they usually vote overwhelmingly Democratic, according to the Texas Tribune. <\/p>\n

The Tribune reported it this way: “That was a mistake,” he said in an email. “I hold no position of authority within the Republican Party and it wasn’t my place to opine on behalf of the desires of the Republican Party.”<\/p>\n

Emanuelson\u2019s initial comment drew a strong rebuke from Texas Democrats and state Republican leaders sought to distance themselves from his remarks.<\/p>\n

I truly want to believe him when he says he misspoke. But something deep down makes me wonder if the tea party wing of the Republican Party actually harbors some kind of desire to inhibit voting among demographic groups that favor those dreaded Democrats. <\/p>\n

African Americans aren\u2019t the only such group. Labor unions lean Democrat; so do Hispanics, the fastest-growing minority in the country and in Texas potentially the most powerful group of voters. Suburban women? Sure thing. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m struck by the struggles that the late Sen. Barry Goldwater\u2019s press flack used to wage whenever the fiery Arizona Republican would spew some of his more passionate rhetoric. \u201cWhat the senator meant to say\u201d became something of a mantra for Goldwater\u2019s PR team.<\/p>\n

In most cases, it\u2019s not that the person who says such things disavows precisely what he or she has said, it\u2019s that he or she simply regrets being careless enough to say it.<\/p>\n\n

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A Texas tea party \u201cpatriot\u201d says he misspoke about Republicans\u2019 desire to keep African Americans from voting. Just when I thought the tea party crowd was revealing its true colors \u2026 http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/06\/04\/gop-distances-itself-tea-party-leaders-remarks\/ Ken Emanuelson admitted that he made a mistake when he said the GOP doesn\u2019t want African Americans to vote because they usually vote … Continue reading Well, that explains it, yes? Not entirely<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}