Republican Gets Electoral Comeuppance for Sleazy Slur on Black Voters
http://www.alternet.org/one-republican-gets-his-electoral-comeuppance-sleazy-slur-black-voters
November at a GOP event, Ron Natinsky, a candidate who ran for Dallas County judge in the recent election cycle, thought it would be a good idea to jab at a national Democrat's voting base with a common GOP slur.
“We don’t want to motivate her voters,” Natinsky said of Democrat Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson during his appearance at the Coppell Republican Club. “What we want them to think is: ‘There’s no reason. She doesn’t have an opponent. I don’t need to go to the polls. I’ll go spend my food stamp money at the grocery store, or whatever, you know, on Election Day.’”
Natinsky ended up losing to his challenger Clay Jenkins, and Rep. Johnson won her reelection bid by a landslid.
Using stereotypes about food stamp recipients stretches back decades, but we don't need to take a stroll down Bigoted Memory Lane to hash out the obvious stereotypes in Natinsky's loaded remarks (which he happens not to recall making). He was clearly making the assumption that, if Johnson's African-American base didn't show up in large numbers at the polls, it would strengthen his and other Republicans' chances of winning their respective campaigns. Ironic, given how much Republicans claim to want more African-American support for their party. Republicans have administered a drubbing on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also called food stamps. In February, Congress passed a nearly $1 trillion farm bill that was designed to cut more than $8.6 billion from the federal food stamp program over a decade, according to Slate.
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