Black Republicans: Meet Romney’s New Communications Advisor Tara Wall

May 28th, 2012 - By Charlotte Young

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is pulling in a new strategy to reach African American voters. According to The Root, Romney recently hired Tara Wall, a former reporter and Republican National Committee senior adviser George W Bush appointee. Wall will now act as Romney’s senior communications adviser for relations with African Americans.

In her new position, Wall represents the most senior African American on Romney’s team. Before joining Romney’s team, she spent 13 years as a news reporter, anchor and host for ABC, NBC and CBS affiliates in Michigan. She was the mastermind behind CBS Detroit’s Street Beat, a weekly half-hour political talk show. As a reporter she was the first to report the Mayor’s Memo scandal involving former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and governor-elect Jennifer Granholm in 2002. She was also the conservative columnist and deputy editorial page editor for the Washington Times.

“Mitt Romney’s campaign team has been quietly laying plans for an outreach effort to President Obama’s most loyal supporters — black voters —” wrote Nia Malika Henderson and Philip Rucker from the Washington Post. “Not just to chip away at the huge Democratic margins but also as a way to reassure independent swing voters that Romney can be inclusive and tolerant in his thinking and approach.”

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  • SumpsiMus

    I like Tara Wall and I hope she succeeds in helping Romney be president. Obama has not helped black people so why support him? He takes money from rich Wall Steet people but then bashes rich people. Doesn’t everybody want to have more? Maybe become rich someday? Obama makes it sound like having money is a bad thing, something taht people need to apologize for and be penalized for. Romney might not be loved by the black community but I think he will do more for black people than Obama has.

  • I am

    Mitt Romney was a horrible governor of Massachusetts and he will be an even worse president. I wonder why he never really talks about him being governor of Massachusetts. This lady can have a seat because the young people voted for Obama in 08 and we are going to do it again.Get ready!

  • Crabs In Barrel

    Glad to see more of us branching out we need to get involved in the Republic and Independent parties now instead of investing in only one. Black folk need to stop looking at the DEMS as our savior becuase they count on us being gullible, uneducated and voting for them no matter what. We need to let both parties compete for our votes instead of justing blindly  following the DEMS and doing whatever they tell us to do which they take full advantage of.

    • MrKeepinitReal

      well spoken but, for now, I’m just voting for me

    • MrKeepinitReal

      well spoken but, for now, I’m just voting for me

  • A.J.

    Wow, he must be desperate.  I don’t know where Republicans get the idea that if they get a few Black people on their campaign, Black voters will automatically support their campaign. First of all, Mitt Romney is a bigot. He’s made it plain that he doesn’t care about people from different racial and economic backgrounds. Second, one Black person does not represent all Black people.  The fact that she is a Republican means that she is already distanced from most Blacks politically and socially.  I don’t see how she, as an African-American and a woman, could support his campaign.

    • Guest

      So he’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.

      Can you imagine if he got a white person to try to reach out to blacks? And that’s what it says he’s doing…trying to reach out, not assuming that “Black voters will automatically support their campaign”.

      And how do feel about all the racist ish black conservatives get from tolerant liberals? Is it okay because they deserve it?

  • Anonymous

    Romney has no charisma. He has no idea what he’s talking about, he has no connection to average Americans, he doesn’t want to talk about religion, he doesn’t want to talk about anything except economy. What are his policies? Unfortunately, he doesn’t even know how to appeal to middle class Americans let alone minority. He has nothing to offer to run against President Obama. Obama is still the best man for the job. 

  • Nehemiah53

    Nobody got my vote so I am willing to listen!

  • http://www.facebook.com/barbara.codner Barbara Codner

    I wish I had more hands so I can give this 4 thumbs down!!  GTFOH!!

  • FromUR2UB

    Well, here’s where people get to test the theory that blacks support someone ONLY for being black.  Of course,  If all it took were a black face, Herman Cain should’ve done well with blacks.  Tara Wall will do no better, drawing blacks to Mitt Romney.  She and other black republicans end up preaching to a choir of black republicans.  Many of them think so much like white republicans, and all they represent (tea party), that it’s difficult for the rest of us to tell the difference between them.  They attribute their successes only to the sweat of their brows, but deny that Affirmative Action laws opened any doors for them.  Most of them weren’t born wealthy and connected, so had it not been for laws forcing entities to diversify, their hard work alone would not have been enough to create the opportunities they enjoy.  However, to preserve their precarious statuses, they set themselves apart from other blacks by joining white republicans in trying to dismantle any such laws.    The tea partiers and the republicans who cater to them, are doing a pretty good job on their own, fighting against the president, blacks and everyone else they dislike.  Since black republicans don’t represent faces that look like their own, that pretty much makes them unnecessary, as far as I’m concerned.

    • LezMiz

      The problem is the candidate, not the message, imo. Romney is cold. It’s clear he doesn’t even even like talking to poor and middle class white folks. How are blk people supposed to relate to him? If a Republican presidential candidate seemed like a nice guy who was comfortable talking to blk people, like a conservative Bill Clinton, I could see that guy doing better among blk people. W did better than Dole and McCain among blks (though still not great, it was like 15%) and the policies were the same the whole time – it’s personality.

      • FromUR2UB

        I can’t even conceive how that would be possible.  If a republican candidate appeared comfortable talking with black people, I think that would alienate his party.  His party would accuse him/her of not being a true conservative, sensitive to liberals and everything else they can think of, and because of that, that candidate wouldn’t win the nomination.  The reason they’ve never won the support of blacks, is because they don’t really want it.  They’ve never wanted it enough to even woo us during the campaign. 

        • Guest

          How does that make any sense in light of the front-runner status of Tea Party favorite Herman Cain in the primaries, before personal issues derailed his campaign?

          Despite all the ridiculous liberal propaganda to the contrary, being conservative has NOTHING AT ALL to do with race. It is mainly about a belief in fiscally responsible limited government.

          • FromUR2UB

            Right.  And you seem to be addressing another topic…one I guess you just felt like getting off your chest.

            • Guest

              Addressing another topic? Uh, didn’t you read your own post? I directly addressed your topics.

              Topic 1: Republicans/conservatives would not support anyone who is even comfortable talking to blacks.

              This clearly flies in the face of all the evidence to the contrary such as  Herman Cain, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, J.C. Watts, Michael Steele, Lynn Swann, Ken Blackwell, etc.

              Topic 2: “His party would accuse him/her of not being a true conservative”

              I reiterate…being
              conservative has NOTHING AT ALL to do with race.

              • FromUR2UB

                1)  I don’t need to read my own post: I wrote it.
                2)  You don’t comprehend what you read, because in response to LEZMIZ’s post, I was suggesting that a republican candidate who works the crowd and mingles among blacks, would not be well accepted among your base.  You are naming black republicans within the party.
                3)  Being conservative, when you’re white, has everything to do with race.  But, they’re not stupid enough to reject  blacks who want to help them with their agenda.

                • Guest

                  2) You’re right, I don’t comprehend what I read… when it makes no sense. So while conservatives will nominate, vote for and elect blacks, they will not support someone who mingles with blacks?!? No really, that makes all kinds of sense. smh
                  3) You win, I’m done. I got nothing more in response to that kind of stark bigotry.

                  • FromUR2UB

                    Oh, so NOOOOW you recognize bigotry, hunh?  Well, apparently your ability to do so is selective.  If white conservatives don’t want to be thought of as ducks, so to speak, then they should stop quacking and waddling.  It’s really almost comical that many of your conservative friends go out of their way to be so hateful on so many issues, yet most of you back shuffle from the notion that it’s borne out of racism. This defense you offer that it has nothing to do with race is nothing more than artistic speech.

  • TFree

    Chile, please. He got to do a lot more than that to attract Black Voters!!! I have an idea, Romney should  select a Black Woman as his running mate. I amuse my ownself sometimes!!!

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  • Gotmilk

    im a bw,an independent.  im not sure who i will vote for or if i’ll vote at all

    • Smilely

      Too many sacrifices have been made by those who are no
      longer with us so that WE can VOTE. Please, please, please vote in November
      2012. Thank you

  • TT

    Call me ignorant IDC I’m going to still vote for the man that looks my color. Caucasian people had office for a long time and this opportunity might not come back around for a black person.

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