Rand Paul Blew It On Baltimore
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Politico gives the lowdown on how Rand Paul blew a chance to be as good as he was on Ferguson.
…three weeks into a campaign where he’s promised to broaden the GOP’s base of support in some of those places, he’s missed critical opportunities to change the party’s dialogue with minority communities…
“I came through the train on Baltimore last night,” Paul told host Laura Ingraham. “I’m glad the train didn’t stop.”
The senator’s breezy response came just before he blamed the violent uprising there on “the breakdown of the family structure, the lack of fathers, the lack of sort of a moral code in our society.” He also expressed his sympathy for “the plight of police,” all without speaking to the circumstances surrounding the troubling death of Freddie Gray in the custody of Baltimore Police.
His camp now acknowledges the lost chance.
“We recognize how it may have sounded to some people,” said Elroy Sailor, a senior adviser to Paul who has helped orchestrate more than two years of sustained outreach by Paul to the African-American community. “We’re listening and learning every day and we learned from this. We’re also leading this conversation.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/how-rand-paul-blew-it-on-baltimore-117538.html#ixzz3YtV7jFQb
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FatRat May 1st, 2015 at 4:31 pm
(“I came through the train on Baltimore last night,” Paul told host Laura Ingraham. “I’m glad the train didn’t stop.”)
We can safely assume Rand Paul wasn’t on either the Soul or Peace Express. lol
Cat Stevens- Peace Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6mKMV0d2cs
Soul Train intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCnKFM3hXEk
Roctuna May 1st, 2015 at 6:26 pm
You could shorten that headline to just “Rand Paul blew it” since it applies to everything he says.
majii May 2nd, 2015 at 12:02 am
He was just expressing how he really feels about the protesters in Baltimore. For him, it’s no biggie to dismiss their concerns because after all, they’re mostly POC, and he’s all for allowing some Americans to discriminate against others because of Freedumb.
William May 2nd, 2015 at 9:32 am
“The senator’s breezy response came just before he blamed the violent uprising there on “the breakdown of the family structure, the lack of fathers, the lack of sort of a moral code in our society.”
allison1050 May 2nd, 2015 at 10:13 am
Ya beat me to it William ’cause I was going to mention the breakdown of the family structure being such a strange suggestion coming from Paul since he has a history of problems with this very son. THAT’S rich! 😉