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Uh-oh, it looks like the GOP is a little concerned about what it looks like when their top candidates are skipping out on minority-sponsored candidates’ forums.

This really hit the fan when Tavis Smiley, moderator of PSB’s Republican debates, called the leading candidates on the carpet for their supposed “scheduling conflicts”. Oddly, they had similar conflicts the kept them from the NAACP Republican forum and Spanish-language network Univision’s Republican candidates’ forum.

From my previous post, you might have already surmised my view on it so, instead, I’ll share the views of Republican leadership:

“We sound like we don’t want immigration; we sound like we don’t want black people to vote for us,” said former congressman Jack Kemp (N.Y.), who was the GOP vice presidential nominee in 1996. “What are we going to do — meet in a country club in the suburbs one day? If we’re going to be competitive with people of color, we’ve got to ask them for their vote.”

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“For Republicans to consistently refuse to engage in front of an African American or Latino audience is an enormous error,” said former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.), who has not yet ruled out a White House run himself. “I hope they will reverse their decision and change their schedules. I see no excuse — this thing has been planned for months, these candidates have known about it for months. It’s just fundamentally wrong. Any of them who give you that scheduling-conflict answer are disingenuous. That’s baloney.”

Oh, well…be prepared for dirty tricks. They obviously are making no moves to win our votes legitimately so, they’ll try to get by hook or by crook, I suspect.

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