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The California Republican Party needs young, attractive college-age women to do youth outreach, said a GOP official to a mostly elderly and white crowd in Anaheim on Saturday. Producer Michael Emerson told the crowd that a man working the GOP booth at a state fair wont have much success getting any interest. The Sacramento Bee reports Emerson advised finding people in their twenties and thirties instead
but not just anyone. They better be attractive.
You bring in some 25- and 30-year-old good looking college students, men and women, and watch how fast you get young people to stop by the booth, the Bee reports Emerson told the crowd. Usually attractive female college students. Emerson was taken aback when the crowd enthusiastically responded to being seen as racist and homophobic, among other things. The partys image problem is that people view Tea Partiers as racist, homophobe, xenophobe, gun-toting radicals thats who we are.
The crowd apparently thought that was great. Yeah! a woman responded, and the audience broke into spontaneous applause. Emerson seemed taken aback, according to the Bee. He paused and responded with, That was a response I didnt expect. I got to tell you, I like the gun-toting, but not the radicals.' Emerson also encouraged the audience to create videos that younger people can watch and share but added that sons, daughters and grandchildren would probably have to do it for them. http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/aging-ca-tea-party-looking-for-hot-female-college-students-to-help-recruit-younger-followers/
Matariki
(18,775 posts)and... applause. Wow.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)how are they going to get them to show up in real life?
eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)I think this is the first time I've *seriously* wondered about that.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)how about some of the Faux News anchorettes?