Cochran Asking Blacks to Rescue Him in Republican Primary
Source: NY TIMES
JACKSON, Miss. Bishop Ronnie C. Crudup stood before roughly a dozen of his colleagues at a weekly Baptist fellowship meeting last week and asked for their help in a fight that, until now, would have been unthinkable for a black pastor in Mississippi: Lets send Senator Thad Cochran back to Washington, he urged.
That Senator Cochran is a Republican and African-Americans here are overwhelmingly Democratic did not go unmentioned. But, Mr. Crudup noted with a wry smile, in tough times, youve got to do some unusual things.
And if that meant supporting Mr. Cochran against State Senator Chris McDaniel in a Republican runoff on Tuesday, it was worth the risk. Mr. Cochran had helped Mississippis blacks during his six terms, Mr. Crudup said, and it was now time to repay him with their support in the political fight of his life, especially against an opponent who was known to have made racially insensitive remarks when he was a talk-show host.
Youve got to be willing to cross the line sometimes, and go over to some strange places for our interests, said Mr. Crudup, the senior pastor at New Horizon Church International.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/21/us/politics/cochran-asking-blacks-to-rescue-him-in-republican-primary.html?hp&_r=0
Just when I thought nothing would surprise me.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Todays_Illusion
(1,209 posts)I don't think it is going to work, but they may switch up a few more votes and claim it did.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)much, much easier to get them to say yes again when the selection comes for the seat, even if there is an opponent.
Perhaps the bishop can say.....vote Democrat in the actual election this year
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)can get someone to not just agree, but to act, - put on a button, sign a petition, put up a yard sign, now vote perhaps, it increases the odds that some will join you going forward. More than a few people who sell things, influence or vacuum cleaners, which includes many politicians, I think, have this in their training.
Been shown often enough that one can get paid for doing it. It's a good investment if you have the money.
But sure.
Exultant Democracy
(6,594 posts)While there are a few well meaning leaders in the black church for the most part they are just looking out for themselves. Even during the days of the SCLC the church leaders active in the movement were the exception not the rule.
The biggest problem the SNCC cam across when trying to organize in the deep south was black church leader who didn't want their flock out there stirring up the pot.