State Treasurer Richard Mourdock said Wednesday in Fort Wayne he “would walk through fire” for Gov. Mitch Daniels.But Daniels took a firm stand the same day for Mourdock’s foe in the Republican primary election for a U.S.WASHINGTON – The tea party is not a racist group, says Vice President Biden, although he believes that some of those involved in the movement have expressed racist views.
“Very conservative, very different views on government and a whole lot of things,” Biden said in an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “But it is not a racist organization.”
The NAACP approved a resolution last week calling on tea party activists and others to “repudiate the racist element and activities” within the political movement. Tea party organizers say racism does not have any place in their activities. Critics have pointed to signs and other actions at tea party gatherings as evidence of racist elements.
In defending the National Tea Party Federation, spokesman David Webb said Sunday the coalition of local and regional tea party groups has expelled the Tea Party Express from its ranks for refusing to remove its spokesman, conservative talk radio host Mark Williams, after he posted a blog that satirized the NAACP and referred to its president, Benjamin Jealous, as “Tom’s nephew and NAACP head colored person.”
The blog post was “clearly offensive,” Webb said.
