House Republicans may be critical of diversity and inclusion programs within the federal government and elsewhere, but they see recruiting women and minority candidates, along with veterans, as key to expanding their slim majority in November.

Rep. Richard Hudson, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, recently listed for reporters a slew of candidates that he described as fitting the “formula” for the GOP expanding their ranks in November.

There was Prasanth Reddy, a cancer doctor who immigrated to the U.S. from India and joined the military after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He’s running for a congressional seat in northeast Kansas. Then there was Alison Esposito, a gay former police detective running for a seat in New York.

Another example Hudson cited was George Logan, whose parents came to the U.S. from Guatemala and is running for a seat in Connecticut. Also, there’s Kevin Lincoln, an African-American and Hispanic mayor in Stockton, Calif., and Mayra Flores, who is making another run. She made history by becoming the first Mexican-born congresswoman, but she subsequently lost in the 2022 mid-terms.

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    921·
    10 months ago

    That’s because minorities are just tools to them- to work in fields, to help with optics, and to serve as punching bags, prison labor, and bogeymen.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      272·
      10 months ago

      Also. Women have tits and tits win votes.

      For some reason manboobs don’t seem to cut it.

      • JayEnglish
        201·
        10 months ago

        manboobs don’t seem to cut it.

        They do seem to like to suckle the orange ones though.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        12·
        10 months ago

        I think it’s a lot less about the attractiveness and more about the fact that they have a well earned reputation of misogyny so they’re needing to use women to sell anti woman policies, and as a bonus moms are great for using “family values” and “protecting the children” to take away rights.

        Everyone wised up to an old man opposing abortion, now they’re using a 30 something mother of 20.

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          it’s not just that they have a “reputation”… they are misogynists.

          which is why you got people like the Howler Monkey Twins; with zero competency or apparent understanding of what they’re actually doing but plenty of plastic surgery.

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
            2·
            10 months ago

            Well obviously, but what matters is the reputation of it. Before they were obviously misogynists but were able to brush it off

    • girlfreddyOP
      122·
      10 months ago

      Yup. It’s Republican hypocrisy at its finest.