{"id":7775,"date":"2015-01-07T17:10:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7775"},"modified":"2015-01-07T17:10:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:10:58","slug":"love-brings-diversity-to-black-caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7775","title":{"rendered":"Love brings diversity to Black Caucus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Well, how about this? The Congressional Black Caucus — normally an echo chamber comprising progressive Democrats — is going to have a Republican<\/em> join its ranks.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Mia Love of Utah will become a member of the CBC, a group she once vowed to “dismantle.” She now hopes to change it from within.<\/p>\n

Good for her. Good for the CBC.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2015\/01\/06\/mia-love-joins-the-cbc-the-group-she-vowed-to-dismantle\/<\/p>\n

It’s not that the CBC has been devoid of Republican members. The most recent member had been Rep. Allen West of Florida, the TEA party blowhard who — in my view — disgraced himself by suggesting that most Democrats were closet communists. Voters tossed him out after a single term.<\/p>\n

Black Republicans in the past have been reluctant to join the CBC. The late former Sen. Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, the first African-American elected since Reconstruction, didn’t join; neither did former U.S. Rep. J.C. Watt of Oklahoma; current Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina hasn’t joined.<\/p>\n

It’s good for the caucus to hear from Rep. Love. She clearly is going to sing from a different<\/em> hymnal than her CBC colleagues.<\/p>\n

That’s OK. A group that preaches “diversity” is now going to have\u00a0some within its own ranks.<\/p>\n

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Well, how about this? The Congressional Black Caucus — normally an echo chamber comprising progressive Democrats — is going to have a Republican join its ranks. U.S. Rep. Mia Love of Utah will become a member of the CBC, a group she once vowed to “dismantle.” She now hopes to change it from within. Good … Continue reading Love brings diversity to Black Caucus<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[264,661,849,1113,1528,2179,2425,3015,4813],"class_list":["post-7775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-allen-west","tag-black-republicans","tag-capitol-hill","tag-congressional-black-caucus","tag-edward-brooke","tag-house-gop","tag-jc-watt","tag-mia-love","tag-tim-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775","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=7775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}