Standing before a packed ballroom of fellow black Republicans on Wednesday, Ohio's lieutenant governor told the story of a reporter who half-jokingly asked this week if all the black members of the GOP could fit in one elevator.
Looking around the standing-room-only crowd in The Waldorf-Astoria, Lt. Gov. Jennette Bradley didn't need to tell the audience how she replied.
"We do not have to apologize for being Republican," she told the crowd. President Bush "does have support within the African-American community."
Bradley laughed about the episode, noting this Republican National Convention is her fourth as a delegate, and she's been serving as the country's first black female lieutenant governor since January 2003. Still, the anecdote touched a chord of frustration with many at the weeklong event in New York.
"The media blacks out what we do, and we literally have to beg the media to come cover us," said Roxanne Petteway, a Temecula Republican on the African-American Coalition for the Bush-Cheney campaign. "They believe the lie that we can all fit into an elevator." [...]
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