The Black Conservatives Fund, a political action committee that aims to boost African American conservative candidates, called on Republican congressional candidate Carl DeMaio (CA) to quickly fire his campaign manager.
That call came in response to a story in The Washington Examiner that reported that Tommy Knepper, DeMaio’s campaign manager, suggested a way to spot a opposition research tracker is if they are young or African American.
“We just want the campaign manager. And we want that done very very soon. I think if it’s not done by Monday you’ll see the PAC get active and I don’t know what we’ll do,” Ali Akbar, a senior advisor to the advisory board for the group told TPM on Friday. Akbar added that the group doesn’t support DeMaio’s Democratic opponent.
“But I think you’ll see us get very vocal,” Akbar said.
The group also tweeted that Knepper should be fired.
BCF is officially calling for the termination of DeMaio’s CM, Tommy Knepper. #CA52 @woodruffbets @ali @blackrepublican @nrcc @freddoso
— Black Conservatives (@BlacksFund) October 17, 2014
No conservative believes that a person’s color reduces them to a particular political ideology. What #CA52 GOP staffer did, not reflective.
— Black Conservatives (@BlacksFund) October 17, 2014
Yeah. Wouldn’t want to mess up BCF’s notion that the GOP is a welcoming party to Black people.They need to hold on to that pretense.
And with this, the Black Conservatives Fund will become as relevant as the Log Cabin guys in 3,2,1,0… Nevermind. At least we knew the Log Cabin guys existed.
The Black Conservatives Fund-----representing all five black conservatives—is going to go all “angry Negro” on the GOP if they don’t fire this guy.
I’m waiting to see if the same members on the right get their panties in a massive wedgie bunch over the “Black Conservative Fund” like they do about Black History Month or BET.
Not holding my breath on that though.
I know…at least we all knew about Log Cabin and GOProud…who are these guys and haven’t they figured out that Republicans are ready, willing and able to do whatever it takes to disenfranchise Blacks?