Republicans Too Busy For Hispanics And Blacks

Unlike Jared Woodfill of the Harris County GOP, who has time once a year to give bikes to Hispanic kids, the lead Republican GOP presidential contenders have such busy schedules that they can't attend Black and Latino sponsored debates:

"What's the win?" said the adviser, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. "Why would [the candidates] go into a crowd where they're probably going to be booed?"

Giuliani, Romney and McCain also declined to appear at events sponsored by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials and the National Urban League, which Smiley said suggests a pattern of ignoring minority voters. He said debate organizers will set up lecterns showing the names of the absent candidates.

"When you reject every black invitation and every brown invitation you receive, is that a scheduling issue or is it a pattern?" he asked. "I don't believe anybody should be elected president of the United States if they think along the way they can ignore people of color. That's just not the America we live in."

They also aren't aren't attending a Tavis Smiley sponsored debate, nor will they agree to attend one sponsored by Univision.

Yet, Jared Woodfill is convinced the GOP here in Harris County is home to Hispanics.

I think we need to sponsor a "Give a Bike Back to the GOP Day" in Harris County.