Keeping Arizona safe from minorities is how Chief Justice Rehnquist made his bones.

[Octafish]

Here's the Original Arizona White Power Vote Suppressor Supreme, in all his Sgt. Pepper glory:

[font size="5"]Just our Bill[/font size]

By Dennis Roddy
Saturday, December 02, 2000

Lito Pena is sure of his memory. Thirty-six years ago he, then a Democratic Party poll watcher, got into a shoving match with a Republican who had spent the opening hours of the 1964 election doing his damnedest to keep people from voting in south Phoenix.

"He was holding up minority voters because he knew they were going to vote Democratic," said Pena.

The guy called himself Bill. He knew the law and applied it with the precision of a swordsman. He sat at the table at the Bethune School, a polling place brimming with black citizens, and quizzed voters ad nauseam about where they were from, how long they'd lived there -- every question in the book. A passage of the Constitution was read and people who spoke broken English were ordered to interpret it to prove they had the language skills to vote.

By the time Pena arrived at Bethune, he said, the line to vote was four abreast and a block long. People were giving up and going home.

SNIP…

Party leaders told him not to get physical, but this was the second straight election in which Republicans had sent out people to intellectually rough up the voters. The project even had a name: Operation Eagle Eye.

CONTINUED…

http://old.post-gazette.com/columnists/20001202roddy.asp

It's important to remember when calling Democrats names: The GOP can't win unless they cheat.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. Bill would be proud to see how the GOP is now doing his job for him in

very effective ways.

Any and all voter ID laws are the work of people like this.

[Octafish]

2. Exactly.

The concepts were hammered out long ago by Rehnquist's superiors running Operation EAGLE EYE:

Challenge the minorities at the polling place because they "look" foreign.
Make them stand in long lines till most are ready to give up or lose their jobs.
Lose their names in the voting rolls.
Scratch their names from the voting rolls.
Make them go home and bring back documentation.

There are more.

[DURHAM D]

3. iirc that type of voter suppression was called "caging" nt

[Octafish]

4. Thanks, DURHAM D!

Here's a handy guide from the Brennan Center:

A Guide to Voter Caging

Things can get complicated, fast, making the paperwork for health insurance seem simple.

[Gothmog]

5. Rehnquist was part of Operation Eagle eye

Suppressing the vote of minorities has been part of the GOP gameplan even before the Southern Strategy. Rehnquist got his start in a program called Operation Eagle Eye, Here is some history about CJ Rehnquist and a GOP program called operation eagle eye http://www.salon.com/2014/09/12/its_disgusting_and_its_still_about_race_southern_republicans_simply_dont_want_minorities_to_vote/

It used to be strictly African Americans about whom these fine folks were worried but the modern GOP has been pretty concerned about the Latino vote for some time as well. As long ago as the early ’60s, Arizona Republican activist (and future chief justice of the Supreme Court) William Rehnquist was involved in something called Operation Eagle Eye. This document in the LBJ library which Rick Perlstein found for his book on the Goldwater campaign called “Before the Storm” lays out the strategy:

John M Bailey, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, charged today that “under the guise of setting up an apparatus to protect the sanctity of the ballot, the Republicans are actually creating the machinery for a carefully organized campaign to intimidate voters and to frighten members of minority groups from casting their ballots on November 3rd.

“‘Let’s get this straight,’ Bailey added, ‘the Democratic Party is just as much opposed to vote frauds as is the Republican party. We will settle for giving all legally registered voters an opportunity to make their choice on November 3rd. We have enough faith in our Party to be confident that the outcome will be a vote of confidence in President Johnson and a mandate for the President and his running mate, Hubert Humphrey, to continue the programs of the Johnson-Kennedy Administration.

“‘But we have evidence that the Republican program is not really what it purports to be. it is an organized effort to prevent the foreign born, to prevent Negroes, to prevent members of ethnic minorities from casting their votes by frightening and intimidating them at the polling place.

Republicans who buy the nonsensical insistence by vacuous right-wing operatives that Democrats are the real racists because the Southerners used to vote for them will be very confused by this. Obviously, the parties switched places over civil rights. But then you knew that, of course. In any case, these vote suppression tactics have been going on for a very long time. A certain type of conservative voter really does not want racial and ethnic minorities to vote for some reason.

Rehnquist and a squad of uniformed goons would challenge non-white voters at the polls for the sin of not being white enough for Rehnquist. This was being done way before Nixon's GOP southern strategy and the GOP continues to be the party of racial division today.

[Octafish]

6. Thanks! Rehnquist is puro BFEE.

Eagle Eye Rehnquist
dons Sgt. Pepper madness
to impeach a Dem.



Know your BFEE: Vote Suppressor Supreme, the Turd Bill Rehnquist

[Gothmog]

8. The tactics used in Operation Eagle eye were enjoined in 1982

The DNC has maintained the same injunction in effect to stop RNC voter suppression efforts since 1982. Every time this injunction gets ready to expire, the RNC cannot help itself and tries to suppress the vote. https://www.brennancenter.org/legal-work/dnc-v-rnc-consent-decree Only the DNC can enforce this C&D and they have to file the lawsuit in New Jersey but we keep this option ready every election

[bobthedrummer]

7. He certainly paved the road for Scalia the "swarthy Nazi" that passed on in his sleep at the hunting

lodge. Your "swarthy Nazi" thread still makes me laugh-with all due respect to those who are no longer with US, Sir.

K&R

[mmonk]

9. Yep. Recommended.