Challenger Asks if Corrine Brown Stands with Obama or NAACP on Tea Party

Conservative activist and businessman Chris Nwaskie is running in a crowded Republican primary to take on U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, who has been in Congress since 1992. Nwaskie who, like the rest of the Republican field, is not doing well in terms of cash on hand, went after Brown for being silent on recent contentions from the NAACP that the tea party movement is racist.

"As an African-American who has also been active from the beginning with the tea party movement, I am horrified and deeply offended at this blatant political ploy by the NAACP, said Nwaskie. I joined the tea party movement because, like thousands of my fellow citizens in the 3rd Congressional District, I am tired of the nonstop spending and higher taxes that the current leaders in Washington have foisted upon our country.

Just yesterday, the White House came out and stated that the tea party movement is not racist, he added. Our representative to Congress, Corrine Brown, has thousands of constituents who are concerned about the runaway spending in Washington, D.C. She has thousands of constituents who are active in the tea party movement and yet she has allowed her friends to brand those she is elected to serve as racist. Today, I am asking her to choose where she is on this issue with President Obama or the NAACP. Her constituents have a right to know and she has an obligation to tell us.