darrmad
12-01-2012, 11:50 AM
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-08-30/republicans-dream-of-a-not-so-white-party#r=lr-fs
On the first night of the Republican National Convention, a 37-year-old black woman delivered a spirited speech to the audience of largely white, largely middle-aged delegates. Mia Love, the GOP mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, and a candidate for Congress, was born to Haitian parents who came to Brooklyn with $10 and who, Love proudly said, “never took a handout” from the government. She was followed on stage by a succession of speakers who also didn’t fit the white-guy-in-a-tie Republican mold: Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina, who is Indian American; Governor Susana Martinez of New Mexico; former Barack Obama supporter Artur Davis; Brian Sandoval, governor of Nevada; Sher Valenzuela, who’s running for lieutenant governor in Delaware; and Ted Cruz, a Harvard-educated Tea Party candidate from Texas. They told of coming to America, overcoming adversity, and finding a home in the GOP.
On the first night of the Republican National Convention, a 37-year-old black woman delivered a spirited speech to the audience of largely white, largely middle-aged delegates. Mia Love, the GOP mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah, and a candidate for Congress, was born to Haitian parents who came to Brooklyn with $10 and who, Love proudly said, “never took a handout” from the government. She was followed on stage by a succession of speakers who also didn’t fit the white-guy-in-a-tie Republican mold: Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina, who is Indian American; Governor Susana Martinez of New Mexico; former Barack Obama supporter Artur Davis; Brian Sandoval, governor of Nevada; Sher Valenzuela, who’s running for lieutenant governor in Delaware; and Ted Cruz, a Harvard-educated Tea Party candidate from Texas. They told of coming to America, overcoming adversity, and finding a home in the GOP.