{"id":12935,"date":"2007-09-19T14:10:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T18:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/12935.html"},"modified":"2007-09-19T14:10:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T18:10:59","slug":"why-the-gop-struggles-with-african-american-voters-part-mmcxxvii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/why-the-gop-struggles-with-african-american-voters-part-mmcxxvii\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the GOP struggles with African-American voters, Part MMCXXVII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Augusta, Ga., a Republican Party official on the city housing authority board sent an email touting a plan to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledger-enquirer.com\/251\/story\/133970.html\">make the downtown whiter<\/a>.&#8221; The ensuing controversy forced the official to resign from the housing board &#8212; but his position with the GOP remains secure. (thanks to reader J.C.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A release from [Augusta Mayor Deke Copenhaver&#8217;s] office said [board member Dave] Barbee expressed &#8220;sincere regret&#8221; for poor wording in the Aug. 7 e-mail &#8211; which urged developers to support a plan to shut down a public housing development and replace it with &#8220;high income folks who will tend to be White.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be making the downtown Whiter with moving 200 whites in and moving 500 blacks out!&#8221; he wrote. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He apologizes to anyone in the Augusta community that he may have inadvertently offended,&#8221; Copenhaver said in the statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<i>Inadvertently<\/i>&#8220;?<\/p>\n<p>The AP report noted that Barbee, who is white, is the Republican Party Chairman for the 10th Congressional District. &#8220;Party officials said he has not been asked to step down from that position.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Good to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Augusta, Ga., a Republican Party official on the city housing authority board sent an email touting a plan to &#8220;make the downtown whiter.&#8221; The ensuing controversy forced the official to resign from the housing board &#8212; but his position with the GOP remains secure. (thanks to reader J.C.) A release from [Augusta Mayor Deke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}