Paul Ryan Finds God

[Valin]

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McKay Coppins

12/20/13

 

On Oct. 24, 2012, Paul Ryan slipped into a high-ceiling backstage room at the Waetjen Auditorium on the campus of Cleveland State University with a small gaggle of advisers and secret service agents. No reporters.

 

Ryan was there for a meeting that the Romney campaign brain trust had seemed, for months, intent on stopping. Since joining the presidential ticket in August, the Wisconsin congressman had been lobbying to spend more time campaigning in diverse, low-income neighborhoods. Ryan, a protégé of the late, big-tent GOP visionary Jack Kemp, argued the visits would show the country that Republicans cared about the poor. The number-crunchers in Boston countered that every hour spent on inner-city photo-ops was a lost opportunity to rally middle-class suburbanites who might actually vote for them. Eventually, they reached a compromise: Ryan could give one big speech about poverty in Ohio and hold an off-the-record roundtable with community leaders who work with the poor but the campaign would have to vet them all.

 

To help organize the event, Ryan enlisted the help of Bob Woodson, a 75-year-old civil rights leader and conservative community organizer. Woodson went to work compiling a list of black ministers, homeless shelter volunteers, and halfway house managers he thought Ryan should meet. Most of them, Woodson later acknowledged with some pride, were ex-something: ex-drug addicts, ex-alcoholics, ex-convicts.

 

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McKay Coppins sounds shocked and amazed at this.

 

[Geee]

Paul Ryan is known for talking to ALL of his constituency. There are many areas of this district that are way to the other side of his political views, and they are much more populated than the conservative areas. He visits them as much as the more conservative areas and takes the heat and answers the questions politely, logically, and thoroughly. There is a reason he has been re-elected so many times with no trouble in a very mixed district.

[Valin]

Paul Ryan is known for talking to ALL of his constituency. There are many areas of this district that are way to the other side of his political views, and they are much more populated than the conservative areas. He visits them as much as the more conservative areas and takes the heat and answers the questions politely, logically, and thoroughly. There is a reason he has been re-elected so many times with no trouble in a very mixed district.

Memo To Republican Candidates! Hello! Here's your clue!