There must be a thread on this already, but I couldn't find it. This makes me angry beyond words. Not that it happened - that's no surprise, but the smug gall with which it was executed and with which the organizers are still being protected.
If it were just a matter of spy vs. spy sabotage, maybe I could file it away as politics as usual. But actually working to prevent people from voting... If that's what it takes, I don't see why the Dems are somehow under an obligation to come up with some sort of Big Message. What's the GOP platform these days, anyway? Shut Up, Get In Line, Don't Ask Too Many Questions, and Pander To The Ignorant, Terrified, and Spiteful Christer Nutjobs?
Just sayin...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060410/ap_on_go_pr_wh/election_phone_jamming
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:10 (twenty years ago)
"As policy, we don't discuss ongoing legal proceedings within the courts," White House spokesman Ken Lisaius said.Earlier today, with respect to another matter...
"White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said he couldn't comment on whether there was an effort to discredit Wilson and Plame, citing Fitzgerald's ongoing investigation."
It's amazing they have anything to speak about at all, given the vortex of scandal surrounding the WH.
― Hunter (Hunter), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:20 (twenty years ago)
Voter suppresion has been the order of the day for, what, decades now?
― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:21 (twenty years ago)
If anything, it's just been interesting watching all the despair on the right bubbling up from people realizing the bad bill of goods they're stuck with and stuck going down with.
Thus, to name one example.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)
Voter suppresion has been the order of the day for, what, decades now?Yes. But voter suppression was taught to me in high school as a shameful practice pursued by Other People in the Racist South that ended spontaneously because people heard MLK's message of love and brotherhood and put down their high-pressure hoses. Hence my frothy-lipped outrage.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 10 April 2006 23:29 (twenty years ago)
Ummm... if people are actually being convicted for tampering with an election in which their side won by a slim margin - shouldn't that be the basis for a by-election?
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 02:44 (twenty years ago)
six months pass...
Democrats Fear Disillusionment in Black Voters.
I know I'm being naive, but this is still absolutely shameful and embarrassingly gotten away with. I mean, how is this still fucking possible?
Mr. Walters said that episodes of voter suppression that were dismissed in 2000 as unfounded recurred in 2004 and were better documented because rights groups dispatched thousands of lawyers and poll watchers. In addition, the first national data-tracking tool, the Election Incident Reporting System, offered a national hot line that fed a database of what ended up to be 40,000 problems.
“All of a sudden after 2004, these weren’t just baseless or isolated incidents,” Mr. Walters said.
The type of misleading letter sent this month to 14,000 Hispanic immigrants in Orange County, Calif., threatening them with arrest if they tried to vote, was hardly a first. In 2004, similar fliers appeared in predominantly black neighborhoods in the Pittsburgh area, on official-looking letterheads. The fliers said that because of unusually high voter registration, Republicans were to vote on Election Day, and Democrats were to vote the next day.
Fliers sent in Lake County, Ohio, told people that if they had registered through the N.A.A.C.P., they could not vote.
― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 27 October 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)