Why All ReThugs Are Racist

This post is for the anoymous commenter who, as one other anonymous commenter noticed, assumes quite a bit. S(he) claims certain local ReThugs are not racists because of the ethnic background of wives, or son-in-laws. I will address this foolishness shortly, but first some facts for our factless commenter.

Go here for some information on voting. Note that the Ohio Secretary of State is a black man, who, for reasons one can only imagine, delighted in denying people of color their right to vote.

“The year 2004 saw an unprecedented number of new voter registrations among African Americans, and a record voter turnout was anticipated. The Bush campaign saw this as an obstacle to securing a critical win in Ohio. Thus began the construction of what one witness called "Ohio's first poll tax."

Tens of thousands of new registrations were not entered at all or not entered properly on the rolls. Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell withheld Help America Vote Act funds needed to maintain a current and accurate database and to train poll workers, whose job was further complicated by a new procedure on provisional ballots.”
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“Blackwell, who also chaired the Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio, didn't act alone. Ahead of the elections, the Ohio Republican Party, in collusion with the Republican National Committee, illegally profiled Black voters, seeking to have tens of thousands of urban voters disqualified. When that failed they secured a court's permission to have one challenger per precinct, or several at every poll, intimidating voters. “

Go here to see how African-American voters were denied the right to vote in Mississippi.

Here our a. c. (anonymous commenter) can see how the ReThugs intimidated Native Americans in South Dakota. Jeez I wonder if SueHank or any of the other local ReThugs have a Native American connection, other than SueHank taking credit for all the jobs at the Great Lakes Agency of the BIA, when, in fact, all SueHank did was build a fairly crappy looking building.

Jeb Bush's indifference to voting rights in Florida start to show up at the polling booth with insufficient or faulty voting machines, long downtimes, and disenchanted early voters - not to mention self-contradictory absentee ballot instructions. Additionally, Duval County where Jacksonville is located had only one early voting site open, far from African American precincts - and some group was videotaping voters. [Via Geheimbundler at Dailykos, St. Petersburg Times. Some more examples of Jeb! cheating & trying to cheat. That would be the Jeb! Bu$hCo who’s is married to a Latino woman, just like Sean Duffy. But more of that later.

“Voter fraud and high-handed vote suppression in Florida by Jeb Bush (personally) and the GOP continue unabated [via Various Sources]: Not content with his dirty tricks in 2000, GOP Governor Jeb Bush builds on his shameful legacy this year. Six major incidents so far:
(a) Vote suppression using fake ex-felon list that virtually and conveniently excluded Hispanics (who tend to vote Republican in Florida) but included lots of Blacks (who tend to vote Democratic).
- After a maelstrom of criticism the decision to use this list in 2004 was scrapped
- News has also emerged that Jeb Bush ordered that the list be used (originally) even though his Law Enforcement Department's own computer experts advised against it because of concerns about the accuracy of the list
(b) Attempt to further suppress ex-felon voter registration by eliminating paper applications for felons seeking to recover their civil rights
(c) Intimidation of Democratic voters and Kerry supporters using state law enforcement
(d) Attempt to suppress voting of new citizens (immigrants) by claiming that they didn't check a box! ( It's not enough to swear or affirm otherwise that one is a U.S. citizen - one needs to have ticked a box in the voter registration form in certain counties or face disqualification from voting!) - even when the forms were fixed, some were not processed in a timely fashion.
(e) Florida's GOP Secretary of State Glenda Hood (nickname: Katharine Harris II) issues election rules barring manual recounts (via machine log printouts) for electronic voting machines in close elections, even though Florida law requires a manual recount of ballots in close elections - after a court order against her stance, she issues new ruling which is barely different from her original ruling.
(f) Florida adopts an extremely rigid standard for counting provisional ballots in order to suppress voting -- a voter has to have cast his ballot at his home precinct in order to have his provisional ballot counted.”

I believe the final number was 9 ReThugs not signing on to the apology concerning lynching. Can there be any more proof that the ReThugs are racist & that the GOP is a racist party? I think not. Here is the tally of 15, before 6 decided, after the fact, to support the legislation. A.C., how can you continue to live in a fantasy land? I wonder what SueHank’s son-in-law thinks of these ReThug Senators?

This post could go on & on, but what's the point? I doubt a.c. will change her/his mind. It's probably too damaged by the kool-aid anyway. What is sad, however, is the simplistic & immature notion that the local ReThugs are not racist because of their relatives. I find it amusing & paternalistic that a.c. feels competent to speak for SueHank's other daughter & her husband. I suppose, well, we will leave it at that for now.