NEW YORK CITY REPUBLICANS FOR OBAMA?
The unanticipated success of Senator Barack Obama’s campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination has positioned the new generation party leader as the presumptive candidate in November. The meteoric rise of the young legislator from Illinois to national prominence and presidential stardom, is generating political pandemonium as new voters engage the elective process and opposing partisans are facilitating a bandwagon effect.
Among the new converts to Obama’s political express is Gary James, a leader of the grassroots activist wing of the Republican Party in New York. James voted for Senator McCain in the presidential primary, and endorsed the Senator in his capacity as national chairman of TheGrandOldParty.org, a website to be formally launched in the fall. James announced that he has reconsidered his presidential endorsement of McCain and is now in support of Obama for president during a directors meeting of the GOP initiative.
James said, “After serious consideration I have decided to work on behalf of Senator Obama’s election to the presidency of the United States. I have discussed my resignation as national chairman with members of the executive committee, and it has been tendered effective immediately. I intend to write on behalf of the candidate on a voluntary basis, speak, organize and work directly with Democrats, independents and like minded Republicans.”
James continued, “I remain an advocate of a 30 / 70 (Republican/Democratic) percent split of the Black vote as a means to establish political leverage power in the community. However, I realize that 30 / 70 is a goal to be achieved in the near future because it is not achievable is presidential election 2008, as a practical political matter. Therefore, I will work for Obama’s election because his candidacy represents a political paradigm shift as well as a fundamental realignment in the Democratic and Republican Parties.”
He concluded, “I still like Senator McCain and continue to believe that he is an exceptional presidential nominee for the Republican Party, such as it is… Unfortunately, the Republican Party district leadership infrastructure in New York City in particular is compromised to the Democrats, and the Republican Party brand is effectively hi-jacked by a sophisticated conservative political splinter group. McCain the political maverick and independent political vote getter has the right stuff, but he is unable to walk on the political water given the current atmospherics.”
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James reiterated his unequivocal support for Keisha Morrisey, a new generation Harlem resident now considering to run as a Republican candidate for the New York State Assembly. Ms. Morrisey is a former GOP candidate for the New York State Assembly and the New York City Council in 2002 and 2003 respectively.
Keisha Morrisey said, “I support Senator McCain and I hope to be able to campaign in Harlem with him, if I am successful in getting the Republican Party nomination.”
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Alton Chase, former Republican Party district leader in the Bronx, and chairman of the New York City Chapter of TGOP said, “Gary was inspired by the Obama tsunami but he was motivated by the fact that the local GOP leadership continuing to ignore the challenge and opportunity for political investment banking in the Black community. The party resists a forward moving political trajectory.”
Chase continued, “Gary raised the fact of Republican Party intransigence at an executive committee meeting and proposed the idea of ‘New York City Republicans for Obama,’ but the vote split. Supporters of Gary’s idea said that they may form an Obama support group called ‘purple people,’ a concept of blending red state and blue state dichotomy as a national election initiative.
“But apart from the internal dynamic relative to the Obama phenomenon,” Chase concluded, “there were existential forces influencing Gary that may have pushed him over the top politically. He was being lobbied consistently by an old and respected friend by the name of Ron Myers. As I understand, Ron is associated with the Obama campaign and is raising money on his behalf. I think that his friend Ron may have closed him. I suspect that others will follow Gary’s lead.
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