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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean made a quick trip to Atlanta Thursday to speak at a private reception at the National Black MBA Association convention – so quick, we only found out about it about an hour before Dean spoke.
He was making a point of being there, Dean said, to send the message that the party isn’t taking African-Americans like them for granted.
He wasn’t worried about African-Americans who were “65 to 70 years old, go to church every Sunday and don’t believe in same-sex marriage,� Dean said, because those voters have a long, deep connection to the Democratic Party. Instead, he said he was concerned about holding younger African-American professionals who want to know what the party has done for them lately.
“You have the right to ask for more than a pass,� Dean said, and promised his party would deliver more in terms of assistance to small business, health care and education.
Asked about the fall elections, Dean said that if they were held tomorrow, Democrats would regain control of both the House and Senate and pick up four or five governorships. But he said he expects “an enormous amount of negative campaigning� from Republicans.
“I’m optimistic, but we’ve got a lot of hard work ahead of us,� he said.
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By Hunter
September 29, 2006 7:35 AM | Link to this
Wonder if How-wierd took a raised hand count of black Republicans in the room?…now THAT would be news!
By Ed
September 29, 2006 8:35 AM | Link to this
Democrats have very few strong candidates and no strong leadership. If it takes king Bill getting mad in an interview to “galvanize” the party, as quoted by Dean, they were in trouble to begin with. It wasn’t that long ago that nobody in the party wanted to have anything to do with Clinton.
By Joe
September 29, 2006 9:45 AM | Link to this
The fact we didn’t know about Deans vist to Atlanta is directly related to the importance we gave it, no one cares.
By rustylynn
September 29, 2006 10:32 AM | Link to this
Same old Democrats… telling those same 65 to 70 year olds what they (the 65 to 70 year olds) think.