This Oughta Be Good… Allen West Will Join Congressional Black Caucus

Republican Allen West announced yesterday that he is interested in joining the Congressional Black Caucus.
Breitbart TV reported:

It looks like the Congressional Black Caucus currently has 42 members.

Republicans Allen West and Tim Scott are split on joining the Congressional Black Caucus.
The Politico reported:

Allen West is coming to Washington with a message for the all-Democratic Congressional Black Caucus: He wants in.

West told POLITICO he’d “absolutely” be interested in joining the CBC. “That has been a monolithic voice in the body politic for far too long. There is a growing conservative black voice in this country,” West said, that needs to be represented in Washington.

West, of Florida, and Tim Scott of South Carolina will be the first two black Republicans to serve in Congress since J.C. Watts, who refused to join the CBC, and the first black GOP members from the Deep South since Reconstruction, but the two have different ideas about whether they should join the CBC, which hasn’t had a Republican member since Connecticut Rep. Gary Franks, who lost his seat in 1996.

“I haven’t really decided. I’m probably leaning against it at this point,” said Scott, whose 89-year-old grandfather was with him Tuesday night when he won a seat in South Carolina’s 1st District. “My experience has been the whole notion of one nation — so I really shy away things that create some kind of boundaries. … It highlights the divisions I’ve been pushing forward to erase.”

Scott served in the South Carolina Legislative Black Caucus, he said, and “had some great relationships for the first year. But we were so often on a different page that — it was a good time, but besides building bridges in relationships, which was incredibly important — it didn’t serve my legislative objectives. So I didn’t join the second year.”

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