When Playing the Race Card, Deal From the Bottom of the Deck
The Marion County Democratic Party’s internal polling must not be looking to good these days. The party is dropping several thousand flyers in predominantly black neighborhoods insinuating that Mayor Greg Ballard is a racist. I’ve embedded a copy of the flyer in this post (both the front and back). I got it from my barber this morning.
I find it hard to see how someone who is racist would see that millions of dollars were spent in black neighborhoods to repair streets and sidewalks that have been neglected for years, increased the number of minority contracts and reduced the backlog of city racial complaints.
Also, the man’s wife is from the Philippines. It’s hard to call that racist. If you want to fight over policy, that’s fine. But insinuating that Greg Ballard’s bed sheets have two holes in them is just over the top. If anyone is going to use a racial slur, it will probably be Marion County Democratic Chairman Ed Treacy directed at me.
