It is no secret that Bryan Cave attorney Jerry Hunter is a respected African-American Republican. He champions GOP causes and backs GOP candidates with big bucks. The EYE has no problem with him taking up the cause for ultra-conservative Sen. Jim Talent.
However, several other African-American businessmen announced Monday that they are backing Talent and gave his Democratic opponent Claire McCaskill an “F” on the issues. This would be the Jim Talent who annually flunks the NAACP’s civil rights report card – and whose own black campaign staffers never even bothered to send to this newspaper (as they promised to do) an explanation of why Talent always votes against civil rights and issues of special concern to the black community.
Hmmm.
It seems some of the businessmen standing up for Talent had no problem with Democrats when their businesses got their first major contracts from a state government headed by Democratic governors. The EYE never heard most of them say a word about Talent in the past, but now suddenly they’re fronting for the guy? Why?
It is any individual’s right to back whomever he wants in an election for whatever reason, but to say Talent is a better candidate on the issues of importance to black people than McCaskill is laughable.
Speaking of laughing, that’s all one can do when discussing fellow GOP minions Darryl Jones and Tim Person. Folks, this is hustling, plain and simple, and these brothers are not pulling anything over on Republicans. The suckers in their twisted shell game are black residents of Missouri. The pigeons in the three-card monte of Person and Jones are African Americans.
Tim Person played a prominent role in Mayor Freeman Bosley Jr.’s administration. He and others like him were fiddling while City Hall burned around them and opened the door to Room 200 for the pathetic South Side pawn Clarence Harmon. Person then found a paycheck from the 2001 campaign of former Gov. Bob Holden. He would strut with Bob to African-American events like a black peacock.
Once Holden decided Person’s assistance was too pricey, Person suddenly was touched by Republican philosophy, as if by an angel. He now preaches that black people’s best interest lies in building a relationship with a party that holds power in the Senate, House and White House largely because of racist voters in the South. But that’s cool with Person, as long as he gets paid. This is the “I got mine, buddy, you go get yours” ideology at the heart of the Republican Party.