Larry Elder Time Has Arrived?
By Bob Small
One of the more well-known second-tier candidates for the upcoming presidential race is African-American Larry Elder, aka Lawrence Allen Elder, the 72-year-old California radio talk-show host of The Larry Elder Show. In the “crime” section of his campaign web site, he says that one reason he’s running is to support “the Enforce-the-Law Act” to rein in the George Soros-backed prosecutors and hold them “accountable”.
He’s known for his candidacy in the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election, in which he garnered an astounding 48 percent of the vote!
Elder grew up in South Los Angeles and is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Michigan Law School. This article lists 14 links at the end, including one to an article stating that Elder’s ex-fiancée has become his biggest critic, and another one entitled “Elder and Newsom: A Special Relationship”.
He opposes college-admission racial preferences as “hurting more qualified students” and says that “the people that supposedly benefit end up dropping out. You put somebody on a campus where the pace is too fast, and they’re not going to be able to keep up.”
When he was first offered a job as a talk show host, he discussed it with his then-wife, Cynthia, a physician. According to him, the conversation went like this:
Larry: “I think of talk radio as stupid, shallow, and glib”.
Cynthia: “It is, you’d be good at it”.
Elder later stated that this “gives you an idea of that marriage”.
His private life has taken several twists and turns since then.
For another view of Larry Elder, see Opinion | The Off-Mic Moment That Changed My View of Larry Elder
Larry Elder is also a prolific author.
Note: Only a Black man could get away with titling a book Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card — and Lose.
Lastly, Larry Elder is challenging the RNC debate limits.
RNC debate limits are bad for the party and the American people
“Restricting speech is the way of the regressive left, obsessed with censorship on college campuses and in corporate boardrooms. Republicans have long championed free speech.”
Hopefully, some of the second-tier GOP candidates will be included in the upcoming debate(s).
Larry Elder Time Has Arrived?
If Elder is still on the ballot when we have our primary here in PA, I’ll vote for him.