I am still on vacation on the island of Kauai but trying to catch up on all the emails. This article really stands out and should be taken very seriously. Pease share with your email lists.
Click on the Jet Pac, Inc. (mentioned in article below) link to fully understand what this Muslim activist organization plans to do. Nancy
www.jet-pac.com/pressrelease/ – JET-PAC, INC JETPAC INC KNOWS WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN CAMPAIGNS, AND WE’RE TRAINING COMMUNITY LEADERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY! NOW IT’S YOUR TURN, TO LEARN THE SKILLS NECESSARY TO MAKE REAL CHANGE:
Muslim Candidates Aim for House, Senate and a Governor’s Mansion in 2018
Even though he is a Muslim running in a state that is given credit for helping to put President Trump in office, with a two-term Republican governor and a state legislature controlled by the GOP, Democrat Abdulrahman “Abdul” El-Sayed believes he can be Michigan’s next governor.
Deedra Abboud, an attorney who converted to Islam shortly after moving to Arizona 20 years ago, is running for U.S. Senate in the Arizona 2018 Democratic primary, hoping to unseat Sen. Jeff Flake (R).
Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, a state seen as being on the other side of the political universe from Michigan and Arizona, Nadeem Mazen shares a goal similar to El-Sayed. Mazen wants to become the third Muslim in the U.S. Congress, joining Reps. Keith Ellison (D) of Minnesota and Andre Carson (D-Ind.).
Mazen not only wants to win the 2018 Democratic primary, then the November election, and go to Washington, but he wants to help more Muslims win elections across the U.S. with the Justice, Education, and Technology Policy Advocacy Center (Jetpac Inc.), an activist group he started in February.
El-Sayed’s religion won’t be his only problem in Michigan’s 2018 Democratic primary for governor.
Hesupportsuniversal healthcare, legalizing marijuana, paying everyone a living wage of a minimum of $15 an hour, and “sanctuary state” status for Michigan.
Dorothy Rabinowitz writing Tuesday in the Journal’s Political Diary e-newsletter:
The pundits busy divining the reasons Herman Cain won that Florida straw poll so handily can’t be blamed—it was a compelling spectacle and a distinctly satisfying one as straw poll results go. To have listened to the candidate’s prescriptions in his speech to the delegates Saturday was to see why. Everything he told the audience had been said, in one way or another, by most of the leading Republican candidates. The difference here was—is—Mr. Cain’s unfailing capacity to speak as though from a core of fire deep inside him. An irresistible strength—as is the mordant humor he brings to the battle.
So it happens that he can deliver a steely jibe about defense cuts (“You don’t put a bull’s-eye on the backs of our men and women in uniform”) or the way America’s wars must be fought (“The mission is victory. . . . If we are not in it to win it, we will not be in it”) and make audiences feel they’d never heard anything so bracing. . . .
An early response to the Florida poll results came from a friend, historian Alan C. Kors, who observed in mock puzzlement: “So, the ‘Tea Party racists’ in a Republican straw poll chose the self-made black Herman Cain—mathematician and successful businessman—son of a cleaning woman and a janitor, as their choice of nominee for the presidency of the United States. Well! What a bigoted group, what a caste society!”
It’s an observation whose point wouldn’t be lost on Herman Cain.
EXCERPT FROM MARCO RUBIO’S SPEECH: ” I do not believe you have to demonize people in order to win elections. Quite frankly, I think that many of these people in Washington who are making bad policy are generally well intentioned. But I think they have two things wrong: a fundamental misunderstanding of how our economy functions and a fundamental misunderstanding of America’s role in the world. And those two things are what led to these policies.
Number one—The economy functions like this: Jobs are not created by politicians, they are created by people that start businesses or expand existing businesses. And the job of government is to create the environment where doing that becomes easier, not harder. Number two—America’s role in the world is pretty straightforward. The world is safer and it is better when America is the strongest country in the world. (more…)
Lost in the GOP’s euphoria over its landslide midterm victory is the fact that the Republican Party has almost become a whites-only party. Its strategy may win seats now, but it will lose over the long run.
Republicans won big in 2010 primarily because they won big among white voters. The 60% of the white vote that Republicans garnered last Tuesday is, by most estimates, the highest proportion of the white vote that the GOP has won in any national election since World War II.
Relying on white support is not a new strategy for the party. In 2008, 91% of the votes that John McCain received in his presidential bid came from white voters.
Voters at a polling station during the closely contested election between Democratic Sen. Harry Reid and Republican challenger Sharron Angle last month.
The problem for Republicans is two-fold. First, whites may currently be the majority but they are a declining demographic. The proportion of all voters who are white has already declined to 75% today from 94% in 1960. By 2050, whites are no longer expected to be a majority of the U.S. population. (more…)
Tim Scott at his office in Charleston. Scott will be the first black Republican congressman from the Deep South in more than a century Photo: AP
Campaigning a few miles from Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861, Tim Scott described last week how he was born into poverty and a broken home, much like Barack Obama.
“My dad was gone by the time I was seven,” the black candidate for the House of Representatives told a mixed group of students at Fort Dorchester High School in North Charleston. “I was flunking out of high school. I failed geography, civics, Spanish and English. When you fail Spanish and English, you are not bilingual, you are bi-ignorant.”
But the conclusions that Scott, 45, drew were very different from those of Obama. When he was 15, a man who ran a Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant taught him “that there was a way to think my way out of the worst conditions”. Scott went on to became a small businessman and a proud “conservative Republican”.
Barring a cataclysmic upset, Scott will be elected to Congress on November 2nd. There, he will be a ferocious opponent of Obama, to whom he gives a withering “failing grade” for his presidency. (more…)
