{"id":12058,"date":"2012-12-17T15:55:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T19:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=12058"},"modified":"2013-01-04T15:55:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T19:55:58","slug":"payne-the-weiser-hit-job-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/payne-the-weiser-hit-job-part-2","title":{"rendered":"Payne: The Weiser hit job, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Weiser is drawing &#8220;objections from critics who say he disrespected and stereotyped Detroit because of its large African-American and low-income population. . . . The Rev. David Bullock, Michigan chairman of the Rainbow Push Coalition, said Weiser&#8217;s comments are racist, classist and disheartening,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.michiganview.com\/article\/20121216\/MIVIEW\/212160345\/Payne--The-Weiser-hit-job\">smeared The Detroit Free Press<\/a>\u00a0this weekend in its attempt to marginalize ex-Michigan GOP Chair Ron Weiser for spearheading Michigan right-to-work legislation.<\/p>\n<p>But in their gleeful, 800-word hit job, the Freep and their Democratic Party allies forgot a couple of important points: The Jewish Weiser is himself an ethnic minority &#8211; and a major giver to black causes.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Weiser is not just a prominent philanthropist who has been involved in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jewinthed.com\/2012\/06\/07\/ambassador-ron-weiser-acquires-detroit-science-centers-bank-debt\/\">Detroit&#8217;s resurrection<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; but he is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zli.bus.umich.edu\/meet_zell_lurie\/bios_weiser.asp\">former chairman of the board<\/a>\u00a0of the United Negro College Fund in Washtenaw County (where he lives).<\/p>\n<p>Details, details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a major Republican figure in Michigan and nationally who is making racist stereotype remarks about voters in Detroit,&#8221; Michigan Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer told The Freep.<\/p>\n<p>Does the Democratic Establishment really believe that? Or is it so desperate to smear RTW that it will ruin the reputation of anyone associated with it &#8211; even one of Michigan&#8217;s most respected Jewish citizens?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Weiser is drawing &#8220;objections from critics who say he disrespected and stereotyped Detroit because of its large African-American and low-income population. . . . The Rev. David Bullock, Michigan chairman of the Rainbow Push Coalition, said Weiser&#8217;s comments are racist, classist and disheartening,&#8221;\u00a0smeared The Detroit Free Press\u00a0this weekend in its attempt to marginalize ex-Michigan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12059,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12058\/revisions\/12059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}