Voter Registration Drives in Ferguson Are "Disgusting," Says Missouri GOP Leader
Source: Mother Jones
Over the last couple days, voter registration booths have been popping up in Ferguson. There was one by the ruined site of the recently burned-down QuikTrip convenience store, which has become a central gathering site of the protests, and another near the site where Michael Brown was shot.
Voter turnout was just 12 percent in Ferguson's last municipal election, and in a city that's 60 percent black, virtually all city officials are white. In December, the black superintendent of the Ferguson-Florissant school district was fired by the then all-white school board, and the longtime St. Louis county executive, who is black, recently lost his seat to a white opponent in a race seen as "racially charged." "Five thousand new voters will transform the city from top to bottom," said Jesse Jackson Sr., who told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Monday that he was meeting with local clergy to organize a door-to-door voter registration drive.
But the prospect of more registered black voters has greatly perturbed the executive director of Missouri's Republican Party, Matt Wills, who expressed outrage at the new registration booths to Breitbart News Monday:
"If that's not fanning the political flames, I dont know what is," Wills said. "I think it's not only disgusting but completely inappropriate
Injecting race into this conversation and into this tragedy, not only is not helpful, but it doesn't help a continued conversation of justice and peace."
Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/head-missouri-gop-calls-voter-registration-drives-ferguson-disgusting
I guess it is better to riot and brandish guns, rather than to peacefully vote.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)It's a way to turn corruption, murder and destruction into a peaceful voice of the people. If the dwindling RW don't like it, good. They had their say, now it's time for reality to set in.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)this asshole would have no problem ,what so ever, with anyone registering to vote.
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)and how that will destroy abuse of power.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Republicans absolutelly HATE democracy because they damn well no they have a lot to be UNPOPULAR about with the masses when they only work for the 1%ers and the crazy right wing extremists.
Too f'ing bad buddy! It's time to pay for your SINS and really answer to God!
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)I am glad that they are registering voters in Ferguson
City Lights
(25,171 posts)It speaks volumes that voter registration disgusts him.