Ep. 658 - Why does Louisiana have a lifelong ultra conservative Republican white woman leading the Democratic Party?
The Breakdown with Shaun King
The North Star
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Her name is Katie Bernhardt. She is literally a lifelong ultra conservative Republican that campaigned and donated to the worst conservatives in Louisiana and she is now somehow leading the Democratic Party in one of the Blackest states in America.
And now she single handedly tanked the Democratic Party's endorsement of Gary Chambers - against the wishes of the majority of Black voters and party members that actually make the majority of the party. This woman needs to be removed from her position immediately.
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| 0:19.6 | I need somebody to tell me why in the world does the state of Louisiana have a life-long, |
| 0:32.8 | Republican white woman, literally leading the Democratic Party there? I need to inform you, |
| 0:41.6 | the Democratic Party in Louisiana is a majority black party and somehow they have a blonde hair, |
| 0:51.3 | blue-eyed, lifelong Republican white woman who literally donated to Republicans just a few years ago. |
| 1:02.5 | Leading the party and now blocking the endorsement of Senate candidate Gary Chambers, |
| 1:09.5 | I am so frustrated that it's not always conservatives that work against us. |
| 1:16.4 | Sometimes as Democrats, let me unpack and explain it. This is Sean King and you are listening to... |
| 1:31.7 | This week our dear friend and brother Gary Chambers was supposed to be endorsed by the Democratic |
| 1:49.5 | Party of Louisiana for his Senate race where he is running against the conservative that he can beat. |
| 1:55.5 | And something crazy and scandalous happened. Gary, who was approved by the executive committee |
| 2:08.4 | and a majority vote, showed up to receive the endorsement only to literally have the rules |
| 2:19.1 | changed right before they were scheduled to endorse him. I'm going to play two clips from Gary |
| 2:25.3 | that I need you to hear. You can also go now to Instagram to see them, read them, watch them. |
| 2:33.6 | Let me play this first clip of Gary breaking it down and explaining it. What you're going to hear |
| 2:40.9 | first is Gary and then other people on the floor of the state house in Louisiana saying, |
| 2:49.3 | hey, why are we not allowed to endorse Gary Chambers and what you'll see is Katie Bernhardt, |
| 2:59.2 | the lifelong Republican conservative white woman that somehow became chair of the Democratic |
| 3:06.8 | Party in Louisiana. I've got questions, intervenes and stops the process. Let me play this clip from Gary. |
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