Robert Black (via Twitter)
The Texas Freedom Network notes that Gov. Rick Perry, who confirmed Thursday that he’s running for president, has tapped Robert Black to serve on his campaign communications team.
Black is a former Perry spokesman who’s currently an Austin consultant. He’s also the former communications director for the Texas Republican Party.
In 1998, after the party famously refused to grant Log Cabin Republicans a booth at the state convention in Fort Worth, Black called LCR a “deviant group” and likened them to the Klu Klux Klan.
“We don’t allow pedophiles, transvestites and cross- dressers, either,” Black said at the time, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Black didn’t back down from the statement when asked about it a few months later, according to the Austin Chronicle:
Black, still the party’s communications director, hasn’t budged much from his position in June: “Considering the traditional Republican principles against the homosexual lifestyle, we do not consider the gay vote to have that much of an effect on Republican politics.” What if a gay group wanted to back Republican candidates? Black: “I would guess, by and large, that most Republicans would not embrace an endorsement from a homosexual organization.”
What do you expect from Rick Perry anyway. He’s just “another” TexASS IDIOT…….making a FOOL of himself!!
Just a marketing strategy to get “Profit Perry” elected. Legendary GOP consultant, Arthur Finkelstein, could probably shed some light on this Political strategy! Do Rick and Anita have any gay friends like George and Laura?
Uneducated statements like those from Black and commenter Michael harm all of us.
I don’t get the Log Cabin Republicans. No matter who the Republicans pick they will be against you. If they weren’t, there is no way they could get elected – at least in the primary. They’re just not that into you. Wouldn’t you be better served working within the Democratic party towards your goals of fiscal conservatism and whatever else your agenda is?
Their loud and increasingly hateful anti-anything rhetoric is typically aimed at a topic of established controversy and of which is known to polarize people. Most that resort to anti-gay talk in their sanctimonious sermons/speeches are the very worst of political con-artists for creating controversy to deflect attention from issues that would reveal them to be profoundly unqualified for the office being sought.