Remember that guy who made the misleading videos about Planned Parenthood and got some people shot? Kamala Harris just had his house raided and they seized his laptop. This should take things to eleven.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Every vote matters.
The results of the 2010 election for California’s Attorney General:
Democratic Kamala Harris 4,443,070 46.1
Republican Steve Cooley 4,368,617 45.3
Cooley did not concede the race for 22 days after Election Day. He would not have taken this action today, no damn way.
Harris has been an important protector of the interests of powerless, vulnerable Californians on many issues. I’m extremely happy to see her acting aggressively here as she takes where the evidence is leading her.
tee hee hee.
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA
At booman’s link:
JFHC! This fucking fraudster (like James O’Creep and Hannah Viles, whose fraudulent assassination of ACORN he copy-catted) needs to do hard time, the max, not be let off with a slap on the wrist as they were for virtually identical crimes.
This treatment and lack of serious punishment leaves them to chortle over how successful their “operations” were and laugh in the face of “justice”. (Ask ACORN workers about “justice”.)
Perhaps Harris gets this where her predecessor (and now Gov) Jerry Brown didn’t. One can only hope.
got the goods, i.e., all the raw footage to make the case, then this asshole won’t have the bargaining leverage (i.e., release all the footage/transcripts to prosecutors in exchange for plea-deal wrist-slap only) that O’Creep and Viles had.
That would be a beautiful thing!
My guess is that this guy’s benefactors will provide generous legal support, which complicates things. A proxy war by any other name.
that’s a very good guess!
May the laptop reveal communications that are backed up by revelations in his checking account that involve as much of Rep leadership as the DC madam rolodex.
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How White Georgia Republicans Are Derailing an African-American Candidate
Without the protections of the Voting Rights Act, local elections are a free-for-all.
BY SPENCER WOODMAN
April 5, 2016
Gerald Greene, a white Republican from Georgia, has represented the heavily rural, majority-black District 151 in the state House of Representatives for the past three decades. Because, according to Democrats, 151 is the state’s only minority-dominated district represented by a Republican, the Democratic Party had been eyeing it as a promising pick-up for the next election–a win, Democratic leaders say, that would signify a significant correction to years of the county’s black Democrats lacking legislative representation. In early March, the party finalized the candidacy of James Williams, a retired police officer from Albany, to run what Democratic strategists believed could be a winning challenge to Greene.
Yet on March 26, Williams went from campaigning against Greene to struggling to preserve his right to run in the election at all. That day, Williams says he received a call from the office of Brian Kemp, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, informing him that Greene had challenged his residency–and thus his eligibility to run in the district. Greene’s petition against Williams’s candidacy had found a receptive audience among the state’s top Republicans, who decided that, on closer inspection, Williams did not in fact reside in District 151. Suddenly, the majority-black district appeared to have no Democratic candidate residing within its lines, and the Williams campaign against Greene entered a realm of deep uncertainty.
“It was astonishing that I was being challenged after having voted in District 151 for approximately 18 years,” Williams told me. “I never thought something like this could happen in Georgia.”
This development has infuriated state Democrats, who have previously accused Kemp of deploying tactics to suppress the state’s Democratic-leaning minority vote. Democrats contend that, on March 7, using Kemp’s own residency data, the party qualified Williams to run in District 151. Yet sometime around March 18, the party alleges, the boundary lines of District 151 quietly changed in Kemp’s database, edging Williams just outside of the district. Kemp’s office on Tuesday essentially confirmed this account. An emailed statement from Georgia Secretary of State spokeswoman Candice Broce said that during redistricting, “Dougherty County elections officials incorrectly designated Mr. Williams as living in House District 151. When alerted to their error, county officials corrected their mistake.” Williams, the statement noted, apparently lives in House District 154. “Our office sent the challenge to the Office of State Administrative Hearings as we do with any challenge we receive, and a hearing is scheduled for April 13.”
This is what happens when you don’t turn up to vote in mid-terms and by that non-action cede your elected representation to the party which seeks to suppress your vote. Not only do we need a legislatively reinstated VRA, we also need some real monies thrown into our state Democratic parties. WE do not have the financial resources that the political opposition has and we need a message and candidates who can appeal and attract voters who can make the party competitive in red states.
I will be interested to see how the hearing turns out. District 154 is already represented by an African-American Democrat. If you are really interested, take a look at this map that shows how easy it would have been for the Sectary of State to reconfigure that part of District 151 in Dougherty County to insure that a Democrat couldn’t compete.
http://www.gfb.org/legislative/documents/state_house_map.pdf
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I love this site.
WHITE PRIVILEGE SEEMS LIKE AN ABSTRACT CONCEPT, UNTIL YOU REMEMBER IT KILLS BLACK PEOPLE
Damon Young, 4/5/16
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At this point, you might be wondering how this connects to race, racism, and White privilege. Well, although White privilege is often dismissed as an abstract and academic term with no basis in reality, it doesn’t exist without the perpetual cultural, social, political, and legal reinforcement that White people’s feelings, thoughts, desires, and opinions matter more than the feelings, thoughts, desires, and opinions of non-White people. (Black people, specifically.) This phenomenon also affects how physical pain and discomfort are assessed and treated. White pain is just taken more seriously than Black pain; a fact proven in numerous studies, including this one:
From The Washington Post:
African Americans are routinely under-treated for their pain compared with whites, according to research. A study released Monday sheds some disturbing light on why that might be the case.
Researchers at the University of Virginia quizzed white medical students and residents to see how many believed inaccurate and at times “fantastical” differences about the two races — for example, that blacks have less sensitive nerve endings than whites or that black people’s blood coagulates more quickly. They found that fully half thought at least one of the false statements presented was possibly, probably or definitely true.
Moreover, those who held false beliefs often rated black patients’ pain as lower than that of white patients and made less appropriate recommendations about how they should be treated.
Do I know, with a 100% certainty, that my mom’s lung cancer could and should have been found earlier? No. And do I know, with a 100% certainty, that if my mom happened to be White, her pain would have been treated earlier as a dire and life-threatening concern instead of an annoyance some yoga and a carb-free diet would stem? No, I do not. But I do know that if her race affected her treatment and, ultimately, shortened her life, she wouldn’t have been the first and won’t be the last Black person that happens to.
And that is not an abstraction.
I stumbled onto that site last week and bookmarked it. A lot of great stuff on there.