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Tom Wilson on the NJ GOP and diversity

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Apparently the Democrats pointed out the difference in the racial makeup of those in attendance between the Democratic and Republican conventions prompting this beauty from Tom Wilson:
"When you have a quota system, it guarantees the result you saw in Denver," Wilson shot back. "Look, you have one million Republicans in New Jersey, and 52 New Jerseyans sitting on the floor, representing them. These 52 people are there day in and day out doing the hardcore party activism.

"Our hardcore party activists are predominantly middle class, white New Jersey," Wilson added.

That's right, because there's no one from NJ in the middle class who isn't white.  Welcome to your NJ GOP, where the hardcore party activism comes solely from those white middle class people.  In Denver, the Democrats had 50% women, 24.5% black, 11.8% Hispanic and so on.  Unfortunately, statistics aren't available from Minnesota, but don't worry because Wilson  has developed an intensive strategy to expand the party into more urban areas however: (Emphasis Mine)
"You need ambassadors - people from those communities who reach out to people and tell them 'We're Republicans, we're not bad people', we just don't think government's the answer."
So the official NJ GOP plan for minority outreach is the "we're not bad people" strategy?  And they wonder.

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