CPAC Has Communications Issues With... A Lot Of People

Outreach efforts to women and minorities are pitiful.

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You may have heard that the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) happened, and the GOP is still trying to appear inclusive. To that end, there was a panel about outreach to minorities — “Reaching Out: The Rest of the Story” — in which a couple of panelists proceeded to insult the very people they were meant to reach out to.

According to Talking Points Memo, Jason Roe and Elroy Sailor said the problem Republicans have with attracting minority audiences is that they don’t offer “goodies” like Democrats.

“Our guys aren’t exactly in the offering goodies business so it’s harder for us to go in and say what can we do to help the African American experience,” said Sailor, who clearly had no business being on this panel.

Robert Woodson, an activist for low-income

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