Top Black Staffers Leave The Republican National Committee

[Lakhota]

The RNC, which has made broadening its base a priority, just lost its head of black outreach.

The Republican National Committee is losing the person who leads the GOP’s outreach to black communities, as first reported by NBC News and confirmed by The Huffington Post.

Kristal Quarker-Hartsfield, the national director of African-American Initiatives at the RNC, is leaving the organization to work for Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) as his director of intergovernmental affairs. Her last day is set to be Friday, and she is the second black top staffer to depart the RNC this month.

Quarker-Hartsfield and the RNC did not return repeated requests for comment on her reasons for leaving.

Quarker-Hartsfield joins several other staffers of color who have departed the RNC recently. Orlando Watson, communications director for black media, left earlier this month. Tara Wall and Raffi Williams, son of Fox News political analyst Juan Williams, both left their press positions at the RNC late last year.

RNC Chair Reince Priebus has said that expanding the party and reaching out to groups of people who don’t usually vote Republican are priorities. After the 2012 elections, he famously released an autopsy report concluding that the GOP needed to broaden its base if it wanted to survive a changing country.

More: Top Black Staffers Leave The Republican National Committee

Well, this isn't a good sign for the RNC trying to broaden its base. Not surprising...

 

[Lakhota]

From the OP:

A recent USA Today poll showed that if Trump faces off against Democrat Hillary Clinton in November, voters of color would overwhelmingly reject the business mogul. Black voters were the most pronounced, backing Clinton 67 percent of the time.

 

[martybegan]

The RNC, which has made broadening its base a priority, just lost its head of black outreach.

The Republican National Committee is losing the person who leads the GOP’s outreach to black communities, as first reported by NBC News and confirmed by The Huffington Post.

Kristal Quarker-Hartsfield, the national director of African-American Initiatives at the RNC, is leaving the organization to work for Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) as his director of intergovernmental affairs. Her last day is set to be Friday, and she is the second black top staffer to depart the RNC this month.

Quarker-Hartsfield and the RNC did not return repeated requests for comment on her reasons for leaving.

Quarker-Hartsfield joins several other staffers of color who have departed the RNC recently. Orlando Watson, communications director for black media, left earlier this month. Tara Wall and Raffi Williams, son of Fox News political analyst Juan Williams, both left their press positions at the RNC late last year.

RNC Chair Reince Priebus has said that expanding the party and reaching out to groups of people who don’t usually vote Republican are priorities. After the 2012 elections, he famously released an autopsy report concluding that the GOP needed to broaden its base if it wanted to survive a changing country.

More: Top Black Staffers Leave The Republican National Committee

Well, this isn't a good sign for the RNC trying to broaden its base. Not surprising...

So the first one left one Republican job for another Republican job. What about the others?

People leaving their jobs for other jobs is now news?

 

[Lakhota]

So much for the RNC minority outreach program. What a joke!

 

[martybegan]

So much for the RNC minority outreach program. What a joke!

Are those positions all unfilled?

 

[Iceweasel]

It's news if they aren't white?

 

[Lakhota]

It's news if they aren't white?

Yeah, it's always good to have white racists reaching out to minorities - for political gain...

 

[ogibillm]

The RNC, which has made broadening its base a priority, just lost its head of black outreach.

The Republican National Committee is losing the person who leads the GOP’s outreach to black communities, as first reported by NBC News and confirmed by The Huffington Post.

Kristal Quarker-Hartsfield, the national director of African-American Initiatives at the RNC, is leaving the organization to work for Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) as his director of intergovernmental affairs. Her last day is set to be Friday, and she is the second black top staffer to depart the RNC this month.

Quarker-Hartsfield and the RNC did not return repeated requests for comment on her reasons for leaving.

Quarker-Hartsfield joins several other staffers of color who have departed the RNC recently. Orlando Watson, communications director for black media, left earlier this month. Tara Wall and Raffi Williams, son of Fox News political analyst Juan Williams, both left their press positions at the RNC late last year.

RNC Chair Reince Priebus has said that expanding the party and reaching out to groups of people who don’t usually vote Republican are priorities. After the 2012 elections, he famously released an autopsy report concluding that the GOP needed to broaden its base if it wanted to survive a changing country.

More: Top Black Staffers Leave The Republican National Committee

Well, this isn't a good sign for the RNC trying to broaden its base. Not surprising...

So the first one left one Republican job for another Republican job. What about the others?

People leaving their jobs for other jobs is now news?

be honest, does that move aound like smart career progression to you?

 

[easyt65]

The GOP has made broadening its bas a top priority? In what Universe? The only priority they have, as they made clear, is holding onto their power.

When the TEA Party's power was at it's peak and they threatened the WE-GOP leadership just as much as they did anyone for acting like liberals (refusing to listen to and represent the people) O'Connell walked out on a stage carrying a rifle and proceeded to declare there was no room under the WE-GOP's huge umbrella for 'those' Conservatives.

Since then they have made it all but perfectly clear that there is only room enough under their golf umbrella for anyone willing to shut up, hold their nose, and vote for and support whatever the WE-GOP leadership wants.

In doing so they unintentionally created the insurgency that is threatening their rule. In retaliation the WE-GOP leadership has declared war on their base, openly plotting on how to steal the nomination - circumventing the will of the people - at the contested conventions they intend to force to happen. They do not care that in doing so they will completely destroy the Republican party, as they are underestimating their base's frustration and outrage.

Liberals are trying to screw their people through the use of superdelegates, that include such people as the 72yo Pro-Hillary ex-disbarred lawyer facing 130 years in jail yet gets to keep and use his superdelegate vote. The WE-GOP is not trying to keep their efforts as quiet - they are trying to force a very public contested convention where they plan to screw their base in a very public fashion.

Career politicians on both sides have no use or concern for their bases' wishes - only their own ability to hold on o power.

 

[martybegan]

The RNC, which has made broadening its base a priority, just lost its head of black outreach.

The Republican National Committee is losing the person who leads the GOP’s outreach to black communities, as first reported by NBC News and confirmed by The Huffington Post.

Kristal Quarker-Hartsfield, the national director of African-American Initiatives at the RNC, is leaving the organization to work for Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) as his director of intergovernmental affairs. Her last day is set to be Friday, and she is the second black top staffer to depart the RNC this month.

Quarker-Hartsfield and the RNC did not return repeated requests for comment on her reasons for leaving.

Quarker-Hartsfield joins several other staffers of color who have departed the RNC recently. Orlando Watson, communications director for black media, left earlier this month. Tara Wall and Raffi Williams, son of Fox News political analyst Juan Williams, both left their press positions at the RNC late last year.

RNC Chair Reince Priebus has said that expanding the party and reaching out to groups of people who don’t usually vote Republican are priorities. After the 2012 elections, he famously released an autopsy report concluding that the GOP needed to broaden its base if it wanted to survive a changing country.

More: Top Black Staffers Leave The Republican National Committee

Well, this isn't a good sign for the RNC trying to broaden its base. Not surprising...

So the first one left one Republican job for another Republican job. What about the others?

People leaving their jobs for other jobs is now news?

be honest, does that move aound like smart career progression to you?

I have no idea, I don't know how good each job actually is.

This isn't news, It's fluff.

 

[jknowgood]

It's news if they aren't white?

Yeah, it's always good to have white racists reaching out to minorities - for political gain...

Racist liberals reach out to blacks by keeping them uneducated and on welfare all for a vote. If they don't tow the line liberals call them house ni*gers. Yeah no hatred there.

 

[deltex1]

From the OP:

A recent USA Today poll showed that if Trump faces off against Democrat Hillary Clinton in November, voters of color would overwhelmingly reject the business mogul. Black voters were the most pronounced, backing Clinton 67 percent of the time.

No shit...if Trump is elected jobs will be available and the people of color...including red people...will have to go to work.

 

[TooTall]

It's news if they aren't white?

Yeah, it's always good to have white racists reaching out to minorities - for political gain...

In your mind all white Republicans are racists.

 

[Lakhota]

It's news if they aren't white?

Yeah, it's always good to have white racists reaching out to minorities - for political gain...

In your mind all white Republicans are racists.

The RNC provides all the proof we need.

 

[S.J.]

In your world, unless the GOP is advocating for more freebies to blacks, they're not reaching out.

 

[Iceweasel]

It's news if they aren't white?

Yeah, it's always good to have white racists reaching out to minorities - for political gain...

It's racist to appeal to people by their skin color. Like Hillary. Libs are the biggest racists around.

 

[Lakhota]

In your world, unless the GOP is advocating for more freebies to blacks, they're not reaching out.

Please name ONE credible thing that the Republican Party has done for blacks since President Lincoln.

 

[S.J.]

In your world, unless the GOP is advocating for more freebies to blacks, they're not reaching out.

Please name ONE credible thing that the Republican Party has done for blacks since President Lincoln.

Free jobs training as a condition for welfare, for which they were called racist.

 

[BULLDOG]

So much for the RNC minority outreach program. What a joke!

To be honest, if the right wing attitude toward blacks is an indication of the effectiveness of their black outreach program, they should have fired him a long time ago.

 

[Iceweasel]

Please name ONE credible thing that the Republican Party has done for blacks since President Lincoln.

Why does your skin color need special consideration?