Senate Democrats are under pressure to bring more diversity to their offices, after a report came out accusing the party of “soft bigotry.”Imagine that.
Despite sounding the clarion call for more diversity and aggressively pursuing even the slightest whiff of racial bigotry over the last year, Dems are apparently scrambling to mix up the whiteness in their offices, Politico’s Playbook covered today in a short blurb.
On top of having no minority chiefs of staff, less than three percent of blacks and Latinos have senior staff positions in Senate Democrats’ offices, according to a 2015 report from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
Now, Senate Democrats are under pressure to fix their diversity issues as activists and civil rights groups mobilize against them. Some civil rights groups plan to hold a conference call Thursday to campaign for more diversity in Senate Democrats’ offices.
Friday, December 09, 2016
Senate Dems Scramble After Report Shows The Most ‘Diverse’ Staff Is Actually Republican
The Daily Caller reports: