the judge joe brown show, produced by valerie denise jones - ISAIAH WASHINGTON

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GUEST: ISAIAH WASHINGTON AND CORRIN RANKIN (LRA)

Champion Women Profile: Corrin Rankin

When former Grey’s Anatomy star Isaiah Washington was wrestling with whether to leave the Democratic Party and sign up as a Republican, one of the people from whom he sought for advice was Corrin Rankin.  She’d been there, done that.

She knew that being a black Republican can be hard. Rankin, founder and president of Legacy Republicans Alliance (LRA), which aims to expand the GOP’s black membership, could sympathize with Washington’s dilemma. After all, it was just a high-profile edition of the struggle she had faced earlier.

In 2008 Rankin voted for President Barack Obama, but shortly afterwards she began re-evaluating certain Democratic policies, especially with regard to how they affected black Americans. She believed that high taxes and regulations were harming businesses, including her own. Rankin owed a bail bond agency in Redwood, Ca. She was an active, second generation bail bondsman—or was before the state of California enacted a ban on the industry.