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Showing Original Post only (View all)GOPer Caught On Tape Explaining How She’ll Redistrict Black Democratic Colleague Out Of Office [View all]
GOPer Caught On Tape Explaining How Shell Redistrict Black Democratic Colleague Out Of Office (AUDIO)Author: Jameson Parker September 23, 2015
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/09/23/goper-caught-on-tape-explaining-how-shell-redistrict-black-democratic-colleague-out-of-office-audio/
For years now, people have been noticing that to win elections, Republicans havent just bent the rules, they seem to have abandoned the democracy game altogether. Apparently unable to win elections fair-and-square, conservatives have increasingly relied on redistricting areas that they would have no chance of winning into more favorable seats. And while the practice should be considered an affront to the very idea of an open democracy, it has apparently become so commonplace for lawmakers that one was just caught on tape dryly explaining how she planned to use the technique to defeat her African-American Democratic colleague.
Rep. Janet Adkins was at a private gathering during a meeting of the Republican Party of Florida. Rather than focus on things like plugging the numerous holes in the Republican sinking ship, Adkins was hatching a plan to steal the election instead. According to tapes secretly recorded and leaked to POLITICO, Adkins wanted to kick long-time liberal congresswoman Corrine Brown out of office by carefully redrawing her district to include as many prisons as possible. Prisoners, you may recall, cannot vote. But first, she made everyone swear that there were no reporters in the room that would rat on her.
Before saying:
Adkins concluded by saying the fact that so many minorities are in prisons where they are listed in the census but arent actually allowed to vote is the perfect storm to beating a Democrat if the district was redrawn just so.
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Rep. Janet Adkins was at a private gathering during a meeting of the Republican Party of Florida. Rather than focus on things like plugging the numerous holes in the Republican sinking ship, Adkins was hatching a plan to steal the election instead. According to tapes secretly recorded and leaked to POLITICO, Adkins wanted to kick long-time liberal congresswoman Corrine Brown out of office by carefully redrawing her district to include as many prisons as possible. Prisoners, you may recall, cannot vote. But first, she made everyone swear that there were no reporters in the room that would rat on her.
Let me give you inside ball game. Are there any reporters in here? she said. Any reporters? OK. So, inside ball game.
Before saying:
You draw [Browns seat] in such a fashion so perhaps, a majority, or maybe not a majority, but a number of them will live in the prisons, thereby not being able to vote, said Adkins, a Nassau County Republican, referring to black residents.
Adkins concluded by saying the fact that so many minorities are in prisons where they are listed in the census but arent actually allowed to vote is the perfect storm to beating a Democrat if the district was redrawn just so.
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GOPer Caught On Tape Explaining How She’ll Redistrict Black Democratic Colleague Out Of Office [View all]
L. Coyote
Sep 2015
OP
True. But this just goes to show that redistricting should NEVER be left to the
1monster
Sep 2015
#8
You are accusing a Dem Congressperson of gerrymandering Florida for the Republicans.
L. Coyote
Sep 2015
#37
The Rs did the gerrymandering, and now post facto you want to blame a Dem. That's absurd and wrong.
L. Coyote
Sep 2015
#53
So, now you are admitting you were wrong. Well, keep backtracking until you are right.
L. Coyote
Sep 2015
#61
You blame Dems Reps in racially aggregated gerrymandered districts. That's just ludicrous.
L. Coyote
Sep 2015
#48
You are conflating two distinct issues. Don't blame Dems for the gerrymandering by the Rs.
L. Coyote
Sep 2015
#52
You blaming someone is a lot different than the facts you falsely assert. Stick to facts instead of
L. Coyote
Sep 2015
#63
Whatever. Peep can read my posts and links, and see you're obviously wrong.
HooptieWagon
Sep 2015
#65
Lani Guinier tried to explain how the prison-census-voter link worked and I have been explaining
kelliekat44
Sep 2015
#21