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Ex-Gop Rep. Tom Davis: Republicans “Scare” Women And Minorities
Submitted by Cheston Catalano
Former Virginia Rep. Tom Davis believes his party scares women and minorities.
“Some of the groups that would have agreed with us on a lot of issues, they don’t even look at us. We scare them,” said former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.).
Davis appeared with retiring Rep. Steve LaTourette at the Capitol Hill Club Friday to discuss poll findings of Main Street Advocacy, a nonprofit managed by Davis. Their main message: partisans on both sides need to stop bickering so much and start compromising on issues like the fiscal cliff.
But both men said the GOP’s problem go beyond partisanship. Republicans, they argued, need to stop looking at voters as members of groups — whether it’s women, African-Americans, Latinos or Asian-Americans — and just look at them as Americans.
