reports the public affairs party candidate for the mayor s office says, women s political influence is growing. why not show we are women who aren t afraid of being sexy? a popular women s magazine in that country even had a miss parliament contest. there are some doubts that a mr. or miss congress contest could be as appealing here in the u.s. in the beauty pageant that is american politics, the popular new girl is the tea party. now one of the old guard is throwing around a pretty inflammatory accusation. correspondent molly henneberg has the story. reporter: no cameras are allowed for the vote, but members of the national association for the advancement of colored people, or naacp, seen in earlier sessions are expected to approve a resolution today slamming the tea party movement for including, racist elements that are a threat to our democracy. according to a spokeswoman.
said tea partiers shouted racial epithets at them. time to stop, pause and focus seriously on the tea party, who they are, where they came from. but dennis says while tea partiers were upset about the vote, they didn t use racial slurs. we know if there was video evidence or any other kind of proof, it would have been on the news and congressional investigations for quite a while now. shelton says the naacp wants tea party leaders to denounce racial elements within the group. but he counters the naacp is trying to use the issue to fire up the base and raise money. bret? we ll follow this one. molly, thank you. bret: kentucky republican senate candidate rand paul says he could not have won the nomination without tea party support. paul said today here on fox news that the movement criticizes democrats and republicans equally. paul is facing democratic state attorney general jack conway in november. paul will do it without a key campaign strategist. david adams said he is
the london telegraph reports the public affairs party candidate for the mayor s office says, women s political influence is growing. why not show we are women who aren t afraid of being sexy? a popular women s magazine in that country even had a miss parliament contest. there are some doubts that a mr. or miss congress contest could be as appealing here in the u.s. in the beauty pageant that is american politics, the popular new girl is the tea party. now one of the old guard is throwing around a pretty inflammatory accusation. correspondent molly henneberg has the story. reporter: no cameras are allowed for the vote, but members of the national association for the advancement of colored people, or naacp, seen in earlier sessions are expected to approve a resolution today slamming the tea party movement for including, racist elements that are a threat to our democracy. according to a spokeswoman.
a top naacp leader says the tea party movement created fertile ground for racist and their belief. extremists are members, tied to david duke, tied to the nazi party. tied to other extreme racist groups throughout the country, are now making the home within the tea party. that infuriates tea party leaders who say they would not tolerate such racist groups and who call those allegations, ludicrous. naacp makes their living crying racism and dropping the race card at every turn. he says the tea party movement is not about race. tea party does not focus on the pigment of people s skin and focuses on fiscal responsibility, limited government, national sovereignty and personal responsibility and the rule of law. the naacp says the resolution stems from an incident they say happened in march on the day of the healthcare vote. when some black lawmakers
for the overall economy and of course it s all really coming down to jobs and whether or not people are employed and therefore can go out and buy so this will be a very interesting time. a very interesting quarter to see these numbers contessa. a lot of ice figuring out whether those companies will feel confident enough to start hiring people. so glad that you joined me. thank you. any time. the nation s unemployment rate remains high, 9.5%, it s been in the double digits for african-americans since august of 2008. the latest report, 15.4% down slightly from may but that number could be one reason some black leaders expressed frustration with president obama s commitment to the black community. the president s approval rating among african-americans remains very high in the 90% range but democrats worry that loyalty won t translate into votes in midterm elections come november. the convention for the national association for the advancement of colored people, naacp, is