BLACK DEMOCRATS URGE BLACKS TO VOTE BY RACE, FOR OTHER BLACKS

Right wing 'Dems' out to beat progressives Pasch and Zamarripa in Aug. 14 primary

Written by Louis Weisberg, Staff writer
Aug 9, 2012

[Most of the long article describes the forthcoming Democratic primary for some Wisconsin Assembly Districts, which because of the new census, have been redrawn.  Pasch, a white liberal Democrat in the Assembly, had her district redrawn, and now she faces opposition from Black Democratic opponents in a district where most voters are Black.  Her opponents are using the race card.----Hugh Murray]

…Millie Coby is one of two African-American women running against Pasch in the 10th Assembly District. Pasch currently represents the 22nd District, which was eliminated by Republicans when they redrew the state’s political boundaries following the 2010 U.S. Census. The new 10th District combines the heavily African-American neighbor- hoods of Milwaukee’s West Side with the white, affluent community of Shorewood.

Some black leaders have branded Pasch, who currently resides in Whitefish Bay, as a “carpet- bagger” and urged African-Americans to support, as state Rep. Beth Coggs put it, “someone that looks like you.”

The other candidate in the race is Ieshuh Griffin. She made national headlines in a prior campaign when she fought to get “NOT the ‘white man’s bitch’” listed as her statement of purpose on the ballot. (A fourth candidate in the race dropped out and threw her support to Coby.)

Coby, who is involved in youth leadership development and outreach as executive director of the Commission on Education and Doctrine for the Church of God in Christ, has the support of Coggs, state Sen. Lena Taylor and other African-American leaders. Taylor has said she fears losing the small presence that African Americans currently have in the Assembly.

My comment:

Hugh Murray

Millie Coby supporter, Democratic Rep. Beth Coggs tells a mainly Black audience to vote for someone who looks like them. Coby is Black and her main opponent, a liberal Democrat, is white. Lena Taylor, a Black Democratic leader in the Wisconsin Senate, who was often interviewed on national television after she and other Democrats fled to Illinois to obstruct Gov. Walker's reforms, basically urges Blacks to vote for a Black also.
Perhaps, these Black Democrats are right. And even more especially this November when we vote for President. We should vote by our race, for someone who looks like us. Then we can be assured of the best candidates winning, Romney, Ryan, and the Republicans.