Swift Boat Backer Funds Racist Direct Mail Campaign Attacking Obama
and Others
AUSTIN, Texas (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) October 22, 2008 --
Texas Progress Council, a non-profit research organization, announced
today that homebuilder Bob Perry, a prominent Republican donor and a
funder of the “Swift Boat”
attacks against Senator John Kerry, is now funding an overtly racist
direct-mail campaign attacking presidential candidate Barack Obama and
other nonwhite lawmakers.
A group called “Empower Texans,”
chaired by Tim Dunn of Midland, an associate of Republican Texas House
Speaker Tom Craddick, attacked Democratic statehouse candidate Joel
Redmond of Pasadena, Texas, with a direct mail piece featuring fuzzy
images of Senator Barack Obama and other black and Hispanic lawmakers.
The mail piece also includes an image of several crows perched in a
tree, along with the tagline “Birds of a
feather flock together.”
The mail piece appears to have been distributed throughout the Houston
region, and perhaps beyond.
“Anyone with any racial sensitivity gets the
meaning of the mailer,” said Glenn Smith,
consulting manager of Texas Progress Council. “Bob
Perry and his political allies are saying that Redmond, who is white,
has betrayed other whites by befriending people of color. This isn’t
Swift Boating—it’s
Race Boating. Bob Perry and Tom Craddick should be held accountable.”
About Texas Progress Council
Texas Progress Council, Inc. is a Texas non-profit corporation that will
conduct and coordinate public policy research, encourage and support
cooperation among various individuals and organizations on public policy
issues, and promote citizen involvement on public policy issues,
including promotion of free, open and responsive government at all
levels. See txprogress.org
for more information.
See the original story at: http://eon.businesswire.com/releases/texas_progress/progress_council/prweb1513884.htm
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