I took the exerpts of a New York Times/Huffington Post article about the attempts to enact voter suppression in Ohio, one of the key battleground states on this issue. What is revealing is the racist devil worshippers who are behind the supression, why they are behind it, and their mindset that lies and confidential pat-on-the-backs that sometimes can't conceal them. Note the following:
Racial Comment by Republican Official in Ohio Rekindles Battle Over Early Voting
By RAY RIVERA
Published: August 22, 2012
CLEVELAND — A battle over early voting hours in Ohio is flaring again after a top adviser to Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, this week made remarks that Democrats cast as racist, and the Republican secretary of state suspended two local election officials who voted to extend balloting hours in one county.
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Anger over rules on early voting in this presidential battleground state appeared as if it might ease last week when, under pressure from voters’ rights groups, the secretary of state announced that all Ohio counties would follow a uniform policy over the five-week early voting period that begins Oct 2.
But tensions have done anything but cool. The new policy excluded weekends, and Democrats have accused the secretary of state, Jon Husted, of trying to scale back voting opportunities in urban areas that had longer voting hours during the last presidential election, when Barack Obama won the state. Before Mr. Husted issued his directive, the state’s 88 county election boards, each made up of two Republicans and two Democrats, issued their own rules, and weekend and evening hours varied by county. The new policy allows voting from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays during the first three weeks of the period, and 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. during the final two weeks.
The friction detonated this week when Doug Preisse, the influential Republican Partychairman of Franklin County, which includes the state capital, Columbus, was quoted in The Columbus Dispatch newspaper as saying, “I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter turnout machine.”
"And now we have the truth. And the truth will set you free. We now (but should have long ago) know that "urban" means "those niggas" - NO NO NO NO sugarcoating, you silly negroes have had enough lying and fronting to yourselves. Face who you are and who they think you are and what you gotta do to get respect - not theirs, YOURS! Be proud of who YOU are!"
Democrats and black leaders lashed out. State Senator Nina Turner, a Democrat from Cleveland, told The Plain Dealer of Cleveland on Wednesday that the comments were “flat-out racism.” The Rev. Al Sharpton said on his MSNBC talk show, “You just can’t make this stuff up.”
Mr. Preisse has sought to tamp down the fury, saying in a statement that his comments, which The Dispatch said were e-mailed to the reporter writing the article, were “misconstrued, and in some cases misquoted entirely.”
"i.e. I meant for the lie to be the story, not my off-the-record true thoughts and how I hate."
“However,” he added, “if my comments, either in their original form, or as repeated in other ways, have caused anyone discomfort, I regret that.”
"that means, 'fuck iiiiitttttt!"
Matt Borges, the executive director of the state Republican Party, stoked the controversy when he was quoted in The Plain Dealer as saying that Mr. Preisse thought his comments to The Dispatch were off the record.
Democrats seized on the comment. “Incredibly, Borges’ remarks suggest Doug Preisse’s gaffe about suppressing African-American voters would somehow be more appropriate in a conversation not for attribution,” the state party said.
In an interview on Wednesday, Mr. Borges said, “I’ve known Doug Preisse for 22 years, he gave me my start in politics, he’s one of my closest friends, and I can tell you he doesn’t have a racist bone in his body.”
Isn't that the lifeline every racist bastard has had since the beginning of America? That they are NOT RACIST? Isn't that the lie that always reveals the truth the more it's said? Yes it 'tis.
In a signal of the growing controversy, the governor, who is preparing to speak at the Republicans’ convention next week in Tampa, Fla., distanced himself from the comments for the first time Wednesday after days of remaining silent. “The governor does not agree with what Doug Preisse said,” said Robert Nichols, the governor’s press secretary, “and Doug Preisse does not speak for the administration.”
Just a few days ago, Mr. Husted suspended two officials in Montgomery County, home to Dayton, after they voted to extend early voting to weekends.
The officials insisted that the policy did not specifically prohibit weekend voting. Mr. Husted said the vote directly violated the new regulations and, after they refused to rescind it, ordered the officials to attend a hearing on Monday to show why he should not fire them. A decision is expected this week.
In addition, Democrats and President Obama’s campaign are awaiting a decision in a federal suit seeking to restore in-person voting for all people in the three days before the election.
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No matter. Husted and Kasich have shown their hands, just as surely as the good ol' boyz of Penn State University brushed over the slide that was Jerry Sandusky. How did that turn out for ya? In fact, there's something very troubling about white clueless devils trying to make decisions for the rest of us. It keeps showing itself as a problem over and over again. But many of these attitudes stem from a belief of entitlement that they feel belongs only to them in pure form, less so to the rest of us and even less to those they don't like anyway or at all. That sometimes includes "urban" people, doesn't it? It does in this voter suppression situation going on out here in Ohio.
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