A Republican strategist says GOP voting reform bills are about 'providing cotton candy' to the Trump

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

obsessed wing of the party

Al Cárdenas, a longtime Republican strategist who once led the organization that oversees CPAC, said Sunday that GOP bills to curtail voting rights are Republican leaders' attempt to appeal to the Trump-obsessed wing of the party.

"These 20 some voter reform laws being proposed in all of these states are all about providing cotton candy to the far-right base that believed the Donald Trump big lie about the election being fraudulent," Cardenas, the leader of the American Conservative Union from 2011 to 2014, said during an appearance on NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday.

"Most of the voter suppression that takes place is run under the radar of laws and so forth," he added. He referenced ProPublica data that showed voters in predominantly white areas of Georgia waited to vote eight times less often than voters in communities that were majority Black during the June 2020 primary election.

Cardenas, now a senior partner at the Ohio-based Squire Patton Boggs law firm, pointed toward the number of polling stations, poll workers, and polling machines as examples of how minority voters can be supressed.

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[brewens]

1. Voter fraud claims were rampant after Obama was elected. Right-wingers could not

believe a black man was elected president. I think there have always been voter fraud allegations, but that was the year it was really ramped up. It's been easy to fire them up about it ever since.

[JHB]

2. No sh*t, Al. What are YOU doing about it?

You're Mr. Conservative, right? What are you doing to pull the plug on your party doing this?

Don't give us a "the Republican party left me" line. You weren't a nobody. You had a hand in bringing this about.

[gratuitous]

3. Also, did chucktodd perhaps learn something?

Or is he going to just leave it there before venturing into the very dangerous waters of recounting Republicans' sins and failures without concomitant blame for Democrats?

[JHB]

6. I assume that's a rhetorical question, because the obvious answer is "No, he didn't learn anything."

Chuckie's doing what he's paid to do. Which ain't journalism.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. Soooo ... A RePuQ strategist ... strategizes ...

How surprising.

Not.

It's certainly not the only reason for this bullshit, Mr MAN, and you know it.

I do understand why you THINK this 'it's all just a silly game' storyline sounds better than 'they are trying to f*** voters over' though ... as a strategist, this sort of thing is 'your job'

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Wait, it's cotton candy ? But they think it's red meat!

I guess that's what happens when you have no taste.

[empedocles]

7. The 'cotton candy' phrase seems so fitting