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Today on The Herman Cain Show, Louisiana State Sen. Elbert Guillory talked about his decision to switch from Democrat to Republican last month. The move made him Louisiana’s first black Republican state senator since Reconstruction, and it’s got the Democrat leadership in the state mad as hell.
Guillory has a fairly conservative voting record, and he often finds himself allied with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. But the move was still controversial, writes Robert Laurie on CainTV.com. Here are some highlights from today’s conversation:
On why he left the Democrats:
“I couldn’t stay where I was any longer. [In] the last two years, the Democrat Party, on issues that are very close to my heart – family issues, marriage, life, prayer, guns of course, big government spending – they just moved too far away from me. I couldn’t stay there any longer.”
Top three reasons he made the switch:
- “Marriage. The Democrat party in Louisiana is attempting to push homosexual marriage. Telling a church that you have to marry Larry and Bob is something that’s beyond me.”
- “Guns. I’m an old Southern boy, hunter, shooter, Navy veteran. I’m pro-gun.”
- “Big government spending. When you spend like our president is doing now, spend us into defacto bankruptcy… the people who are hurt worst of all are the people at the bottom rung of the ladder.”
On the black community:
“We put ourselves in the hip pocket of the Democrats. They don’t have to kiss us. They don’t have to take us out and shine us up. They just leave us sitting in the back pocket, because we’re there. They know they can count on us, and they ignore us completely.”
On closet black conservatives:
“A large number of our ministers, our deacons, our church folks… The values that we’re talking about right now are the values that they hold: They’re frugal in their own family budgets. They wouldn’t think of participating in a gay marriage… In an America that’s a Christian nation… [Democrats] want prayer out of our schools. They don’t want the Ten Commandments in our courthouse.”
On the NAACP:
“They’ve gotten away from our basic focus. I think that they’re following the president, and that’s unfortunate. We close our eyes and turn our heads to so much that this president does. I have criticized every president – the ones that I loved and the ones that I didn’t love – because they’re always wrong sometimes. But this guy, we turn our heads whatever he does. If it’s spying on Americans, if it’s the IRS harassing conservative organizations, minority employment… Doesn’t matter what it is, he gets a free pass [from blacks].”
Here’s Sen. Guillory’s video:
Related articles
- GOP embraces opportunistic party switcher Elbert Guillory (beaumontenterprise.com)
- Truth to Power: Party Switcher Elbert Guillory: “Why I Am a Republican” (commoncts.blogspot.com)
- Elbert Guillory Explains Why He Left the Democrats (moonbattery.com)
