Sen. Talent’s accomplishments for the African-American community include:
- Writing the Sickle Cell Disease Treatment law, the most comprehensive law to help Sickle Cell patients in a generation.
- Sponsoring the law to help African-American small business people compete for federal contracts.
- Passing legislation to invest in research and technology for Historically Black Colleges like Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis and Lincoln University in Jefferson City.
- Enacting legislation to designate the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City as America’s National Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
- Passing the Medicare Prescription Drug law, including screenings for diseases that disproportionately impact African-Americans such as diabetes, hypertension and asthma.
“When the people elected me to the Senate, it was on my heart that the African-American community needed a champion on issues that would benefit them. Other communities have champions who have fought effectively for them and I wanted to help the African-American community. The ideas for the legislation I’ve fought for came from this community on issues like fighting Sickle Cell Disease, helping minority entrepreneurs compete, passing the Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act and investing in Historically Black Colleges. I’m encouraging African-Americans to examine my record and I believe they will find that I’m the only candidate for Senate who has worked effectively with people in both parties on issues that are important to them.”
-U.S. Senator Jim Talent
“Senator Jim Talent is the best kept secret of the Republican Party. I’m supporting him not only for his leadership for the African-American community, but for his work in helping communities become self-sufficient. I’m supporting him for his honesty and for his effectiveness in passing important legislation such as the Sickle Cell Treatment bill and legislation to help strengthen families by supporting healthy marriage and responsible fatherhood. We need to send Jim Talent back to the United States Senate.”
-Halbert Sullivan, CEO of the Fathers’ Support Center
“I’ve been a Democrat all of my life, but then I started to realize that I needed not to vote for a Party but vote for a person who was making a difference, who was doing the job, and that’s Jim Talent. Senator Jim Talent created the Sickle Cell Treatment Act to create centers across the country to help adults and children who have Sickle Cell Disease. Jim Talent cares about what is happening with the people in this state and I think the people should send him back to the Senate.”
-Caroline Douglas, the mother of a child with Sickle Cell Disease