(AL) Workers Say Boss Gave Them Marked (Republican) Ballots

[kpete]

Source: CourtHouse News

Workers Say Boss Gave Them Marked Ballots
By TRACEY DALZELL WALSH

(edited to add pic)

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CN) - Five black employees of Birmingham-based Altec Industries say the company owner told them to vote Republican, and gave them pre-marked ballots during a visit by Sen. Jeff Sessions. The workers add, in separate federal complaints, that when Barack Obama was elected president, "an employee drew cross hairs or a target on a picture of President Obama and posted it in the workplace."

In their discrimination complaints, all five employees claim they were "subjected to different terms and conditions of employment because of their race," including denial of promotions and training. They say they were given a different dress code than white workers and denied breaks that white employees enjoyed.

On its company website, Altec describes itself as "a leading provider of products and services to the electric utility, telecommunications and contractor markets. We provide products and services in over 100 countries throughout the world."

Plaintiff Australia Harris claims that "In or around October 2008, Senator Jeff Sessions came to the facility where plaintiff was employed and talked to the employees about voting Republican. Plaintiff and other employees were informed they had to attend the rally with Senator Sessions. In addition, the owner of the company informed the employees they should vote Republican and gave the employees pre-marked ballots."

Read more: http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/10/18/31130.htm

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COMPLAINT: http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/10/18/Altec.pdf

[babylonsister]

1. Gasp! I guess nothing is beneath them. This pisses me right the

hell off. :grr:

[The Hitman]

76. God forbid we run an Aqua Buddha ad.

Seriously, if they are going to fight this dirty it's high time we get some mud on our boots.

[bobburgster]

97. I agree.....

any time the dems start to fight back on their level they scream in horror at the atrocity.

[Oceansaway]

2. WTF !!!

[liberalmike27]

92. They make speakers, computer, stereo, and musical instrument

And used to make these large A-7 speakers and horns we used in a band I was once in long ago. So there's products you can avoid buying. Sadly, I think I have a 2.1 set for the computer already.

They were a lot crappier than JBLs, I remember that.

It's sad, and I hate being from here, but just remember, we're not all prejudiced assholes. Of course I'm in the most liberal 2 percent, so sometimes I feel like I'm living dangerously.

I got my oil changed today, and saw someone make a face when he saw my Obama stickers, so I'm already paranoid about stuff like that, hoping they won't mess with it.

Like I've been saying for ten years now, Republicans are really acting like NAZIs, like at Miller's campaign stop, when his men illegally obtained a guy Miller later said was accosting him. When asked what the offender had done, he said he was asking questions and filming him. Miller, of Alas-Ka, should look it up. We've got the brown-shirt behavior. It's funny that they are the ones buying the guns, since it seems the more liberal people are the ones being threatened.

I think they also make a lot of electronics parts too.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[SpiralHawk]

4. Republicon Family Values again: cheating, lying, intimidation

REPUBLICONS just do not do honor.

[mcollier]

26. Apparently this is totally acceptable to many

in the Rebublican/Tea Party... We can do better.

[xchrom]

5. Recommend

[RKP5637]

6. Employers like this should be serving hard time for this crap. n/t

[MedicalAdmin]

35. The employer didn't break any laws.

Hate to say it, but he didn't force the employees to vote republican. And the employer, because that state is one of many that are euphamistically called "right to work" states, can fire those employees for coming forward. He could make them mop up shit with a toothbrush or much much worse and they have NO RECOURSE.

I used to hang out with a union lawyer and he told me stories that turned my hair white. Shit - it's like the confederacy won.

[RKP5637]

47. Unbelievable! Thanks for your reply/info. n/t

[bigdaddycoles66]

49. They did violate their equal rights.

Which will set them up with a pretty nice lawsuit. A lawsuit will affect the company worse than breaking the law because republicans only car about their bottom line. Laws do not matter to republicans only money and free labor. Vote early using early ballot forms and vote Democrat.

[ooglymoogly]

65. Bull shit....discrimination is against federal law, no matter what

the state says.


Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin;

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, and ended racial segregation in the United States. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public ("public accommodations").

Once the Act was implemented, its effects were far-reaching on the country as a whole and had an immediate impact on the South. It prohibited discrimination in public facilities, in government, and in employment, invalidating the Jim Crow laws in the southern U.S. It became illegal to compel segregation of the races in schools, housing, or hiring.

After passage of the law, the NAACP was the only major civil rights organization to maintain a large membership in the South, where it concentrated on organizing the ongoing struggle for black civil rights. During 1965-75, the NAACP remained committed to using litigation to challenge racial injustice. Its legal efforts focused on four areas: enforcement of both the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, school integration, employment discrimination, and the struggle to keep Southern states and localities from switching to at-large elections.<1>

Powers given to enforce the act were initially weak, but were supplemented during later years. Congress asserted its authority to legislate under several different parts of the United States Constitution, principally its power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One (section 8), its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment and its duty to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment.

The actions described here are against these laws.

[SpankMe]

91. America is going down the toilet.

Two New Black Panther Party members stand menacingly - in military garb - in front of a polling place in Philly, potentially discouraging white voters from using the polling place.

An employer hands pre-filled out ballots (or "highly suggestive" voting guides) to black employees - with Republican votes annotated - in Alabama, a state with few protections for the rights of workers, potentially discouraging black voters from casting votes of their choosing.

Yet Republicans will hold that in one case this is "voter intimidation", and in the other "the employer didn't break any laws".

It is this alien logic and selective interpretation of essentially equivalent intimidation phenomena that has effectively cemented an advantage for conservatives in the law.

The conservative party is about to gain a majority in this country my friends. When they do, they'll rework the laws and the judiciary even more in their favor than it is now - and they'll get either a permanent majority, or will implement fascist-similar policies that will make America not recognizable as America any more. Criminalized abortion, gays pushed back to second class citizenship, unrestricted gun ownership, religion codified in public law, buttressing of unregulated corporate power, severe (possibly violent) anti-government agenda - except for the military and police state, etc.

I have only one vote and a few hundred bucks to give to stop the coming apocalypse. But, the Republicans own the process.

[valerief]

98. Going? Baby, we're flushed! nt

[Pacifist Patriot]

99. Discriminating based on race, yes. Telling them to vote Repub, no.

You are absolutely correct that companies can tell their employees for whom they should vote. I don't personally like the practice having been on the receiving end of it at a thoroughly Red company ten years ago, but it's legal.

The other details in the story do indicate alleged illegal activity.

[donquijoterocket]

102. down there

They believe the confederacy did win.In Alabama Jefferson Davis' birthday is a state holiday as it is in Florida.There's also a sense of not being bound by "yankee" law.

[byrok]

103. Not true.

"In Alabama Jefferson Davis' birthday is a state holiday as it is in Florida".

I don't know about Alabama, but in Florida, that is not true.

Florida is made up of people from all over the country. It is not your "typical" Southern state.

Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of backwoods, racist, crazy, tea-baggin, asshats here. But there are also a ton of Northerners here who don't subscribe to any of that crap.

And Jefferson Davis' birthday holiday? Never heard of it.:shrug:

[Joanne98]

7. "We provide products and services in over 100 countries throughout the world."

DO THEIR BROWN AND BLACK CUSTOMERS IN OTHER COUNTRIES KNOW THEY'RE RACIST?

[bullwinkle428]

8. A corporate spokesmen, Mr. James Crow, categorically denies

all allegations.

[zipplewrath]

9. A bit of semantics

I recieve "sample ballots" every year. It would be nothing for a company to produce such a thing with specific candidates and issues "pre-marked" as a campaign tactic. Representing these as "pre-marked ballots" would be a bit of a stretch since they couldn't be turned in by any method to be counted. If he truly got absentee ballots, or other such official paperwork, he could be up on charges. We had a guy up on charges around here for sitting with people and helping them fill out the absentee ballots he had arranged for them to recieve.

[joeglow3]

19. Exactly what I was thinking

I get the same thing every year from a lot of different groups. Frankly, I see it as nothing more than an advertisement.

While I agree I don't like a company telling me how to vote, so long as it is just a "suggestion," I don't mind. Now, if we find out employees were retaliated against based on their votes, then I have a HUGE ass problem.

[zipplewrath]

27. I'd wanna know how they know

I'm not the most popular guy, politically, at my company. And as I've moved up, I've tended to be a bit more circumspect in my positions. (Not silent, but I won't discuss specific candidates, merely positions and history). But if any one claimed to know how I voted, I'd really be interested in how they knew that.

[jeff47]

34. It's about who gave you the ballot

"I recieve "sample ballots" every year"

How many come from your employer? Thus including the implied threat on your job if you don't follow the sample.

[zipplewrath]

39. None

But there's no way for them to know how I vote, so there can't be much of an "implied threat". There is definitely an implication that how you vote affects the markets that create your job, and those threats are already out there. i.e if Sen. XXX wins, we'll have to move our factories to China.

[Celtic Merlin]

54. No shit? They deny being scumbags?

Well, that settles the issue for me!
{/sarcasm}

Celtic Merlin
Carlinist

[Aramchek]

10. if these aren't absentee ballots then they are illegal.

[spinbaby]

11. That's nothing

I can name a company in which the owner requires his employees to donate to Republican candidates. They're told whom to donate to and how much they should donate.

[LiberalFighter]

30. Do those employees receive reimbursement when they make the contribution?

If so, it would be a campaign violation.

[MedicalAdmin]

36. It's likely not reimbursed.

It's simply a condition of employment. And yes, it should be a jailable hard time offence. It is an attempt to subvert our republic.

[spinbaby]

44. They get "bonuses"

That more or less cover the contributions. Illegal as hell, but so far everyone needs their jobs too much to blow the whistle.

[quakerboy]

80. But you know about it

Why have you not reported it?

[spinbaby]

83. Because I have a relative who'd like to keep his job

And also I have no proof beyond hearsay.

[Chisox08]

72. Is that company owned by the husband of a Conn. Senate candidate?

[monmouth]

12. Someone needs to go to jail....Period...n/t

[Blue Owl]

13. In the GOP's ideal world

They'll do the thinking for you.

It's all so fucking convenient.

[YankeeLeft7x]

14. Not Surprised At All - Welcome to 21st Century America

Welcome to 21st Century America led by the same radical right of the GOP with their roots in the Confederate South.

The GOP are up to their same old tricks because all what they are doing now is simply reworked and overthought by a moronic media class.

Too bad the media class which is in bed with these GOP slime don't really report well on this kind of depravity.

[Just One Woman]

15. It is awful

But this kind of thing has been going on in Alabama for years. Roughly ten years ago, I was working for an oil company headquartered in Alabama and was astounded when I got a pre-marked ballot in with my paycheck, along with a letter from the owner of the company telling me who I was going to vote for. This was from the same man that thought it was okay to pay my male counterpart three times what he was paying me. I don't work there anymore. But this just shows the gonads these people have. This is just how much better they think they are.

[Deep13]

16. This is what the fascists want--for us to be owned by our employers. nt

[pattmarty]

48. Yep. What we have in this country now is the new improved............

.............21st century version of fascism. It STILL is a great country, IF YOU'RE RICH.

[greiner3]

17. I'd say I'd never use their products;

However, I'd never use their products even if Barrack gave them his personal seal of approval.

On another note, their web site also says they 'partner' with the feds.

Anyone?

[PSzymeczek]

79. Yep.

When I worked for Department of the Army as a Contract Specialist, I saw the company's name more than once.

[Pab Sungenis]

18. Pre-marked ballots handed out after Sessions comes to visit?

Maybe we need a Federal Investigation of Senator Sessions for election fraud.

[atreides1]

38. And who will conduct this investigation?

Surely not Eric Holder and his Department of Selective Justice!!!

[Scruffy1]

20. What do you expect?

For the life of me I don't understand why the Dems in the Senate don't cut off their money supply. These Southern block states get more dollars out of the federal government than any state except Alaska. If they don't want to obey any law, fuck em.You know that no Republican will ever be held accountable for anything.

[lisa58]

21. Makes me sick...

[LiberalArkie]

22. When I was growing up in south Arkansas, the company owners would pay the poll tax

for the employees and then truck them down to the court houses so that that could vote for the current Democratic candidates. In the 50' and 60's the LIBERAL Republicans were trying to stop that practice but it was hard because the local Sheriffs were all Conservative Democrats.

I look back on Win Rockefeller as probably the greatest Governor we ever had, simply because with his election that cycle was broken.

Don't blame it on just the Republicans, put it were it belongs on the CONSERVATIVE incumbent politicians..

[Initech]

23. My god, how low can you get?

[indy legend]

57. I don't know, but these are republicans and just when I think we've

reached to bottom of the barrel of lies,theft,deceit and corruption, they never fail to amaze me with their ability to dig that hole deeper.

[Initech]

61. I'm definitely not gonna deny that.

[Scurrilous]

24. K & R

:thumbsup:

[mcollier]

25. With so many of us doing what we can to encourage people

to get out and vote, the constant battle between those who work feverishly to suppress the rights of Americans to vote should be punishible by law....

[hughee99]

28. And a Butterfly ballot to boot.

I see Pat Buchanan getting a lot of votes in this district.

[Guilded Lilly]

Tip of the iceberg...

with millions more beneath the surface.

Having lived and volunteered through the debacle that was the Kerry/Bush election in my suburban Northeastern district in Ohio, nothing about this is the least bit surprising in any way.

What will be done about it?
Nothing.

But don't stop trying!
Don't stop trying.

[samplegirl]

29. This is nothing more..........

than FUCKEN VOTER INTIMIDATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Recursion]

31. Unfortunately AFAIK there's a legal world of difference between...

...telling someone they "should" vote Republican and telling them that if they don't vote Republican there will be repurcussions.

[PSzymeczek]

81. That was implicit,

with "if you want to keep working here" unspoken but understood.

[Pacifist Patriot]

101. Very hard to prove

I worked for a Red fortune 500 company (are there any other kind?) about ten years ago that pulled absolutely no punches when it came to election time. We did feel an unspoken threat that if you announced you voted the wrong way you could be putting your job in jeopardy. However, with a secret ballot, you aren't obligated to tell anyone how you voted. Still, although it was definitely a hostile environment for democrats come election time, I don't recall any true repercussions against those of us who didn't care about advertising our allegiance to the Democratic party. Lot of bark, no bite.

[BrklynLiberal]

32. This should be headlines all over the country...

You can bet the farm that if were the Dems doing this, it would be 24/7, wall-to-wall news.

[YankeeLeft7x]

33. Is America Still a Functioning Nation or Failed State?

Someone needs to ask this question and understand this is where the nation is headed under a GOP government.

[AllyCat]

37. While nowhere near the awful story here,

my company had us sit through a mandatory employee meeting where 30 minutes of the hour long meeting was talking about how to reform the health care legislation by voting Republican and thus saving our jobs.

This is out and out racism and unfair treatment. Companies will stop at nothing anymore to make things better for them by screwing the rest of us over.

[Politicalboi]

64. Wow

I would have walked out. And if they had a problem, I would become a bigger one. How can a company talk about politics at all? I used to get mad at my old place of work when they put up a HDTV in the break room and of course Faux Noise was on ALL the time. I felt that wasn't right. Your breaks are your time, and not for listening to Billo, or any of the Faux clowns. I couldn't even imagine your own boss holding you hostage for his Repuke talking points meeting. That would have done it for me. LOL!

[AllyCat]

82. Most (but not all) of the employees are organized.

We talked to people after the meetings and not found anyone yet who believed the tripe he offered. One lady showed up with her 4 kids and sat in the front. For all the people who had to pay for daycare for that, I think they were emboldened to do the same next time we have to sit through one of these POS meetings.

[bkozumplik]

40. thats jailtime

seems open and closed. Get that man some prison pajamas.

[sarchasm]

41. BOYCOTT !!

Boycott Altec and the companies and contractors that buy their products!

[BolivarianHero]

42. So let me get this straight...

Racist White Republicans and racist White industrialists are conspiring to mistreat African-American workers and to deny them their democratic rights, and yet we have an African-American President whose administration's Justice Department is helping these same racists with keeping Don Siegelman as a political prisoner. If I were President I'd be doing a Hell of a lot more to take on the Talibama GOP and their fascist friends than President Obama seems to be doing (though it goes without saying that anyone in this community would care more about these things than a corporatized centrist would...). Why is Obama protecting right-wing extremists who would kill him if they didn't face a deadly needle for doing so?

[marmar]

43. "They say they were given a different dress code than white workers"

From the sound of this company, I suspect white employees were allowed to wear white robes with pointy hats if they so desired. The company would provide a wooden cross and matches for free.

[JohnWxy]

45. NO WONDER THE REPUBS ARE DOING SO WELL IN THE POLLS. The pollsters allow for

voter fraud that is acceptable to America's Nazi Party.



Recommended.

[orbitalman]

46. I hope these employees LAY THE HAMMER DOWN.

The company owner must be a stupid redneck to think he can get away with that kind of BS. That kind of mentallity is purely UNAMERICAN,:grr:

[ProChoiceGrandma]

50. If A Rethug Mentions ACORN, Hit Back with "Mark Jacoby YPM"

I hope everyone will read the following article on The Brad Blog. It is really important to know the illegal tactics these scumbags use.
Anytime any RWNJ Republican/Teahadist tries to invoke ACORN (which was disbanded 4-1-10 because of James O'Keefe's false accusations), I hope you have this article bookmarked and ready to throw in their face about GOP voter registration fraud:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7237

In a nutshell, the Republican Party in California hired Mark Jacoby and his group Young Political Majors (YPM). Jacoby was using a tactic to get people to sign a petition they believed was seeking to toughen penalties for child molesters, deceiving them into registering as Republicans, thus changing their addresses, changing their party affiliation, changing their status, i.e., vote by mail, and generally causing their victims, at best, to have to vote provisionally.

[Xenotime]

so the election theft begins.

[hayu_lol]

55. At least this is in a Federal Court...

where it has a fair chance of winning for the Plaintiff.

Hope the attorney trying the case will be cautious about where he goes and with whom.

Those 'right to work' states will kill off the rest of us.

[Hubert Flottz]

51. The GOPers may not be card carrying Nazis but they conduct...

themselves just like Nazis did.

[Uncle Joe]

52. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[YankeeLeft7x]

53. Not Enforcing the Law is one Factor of Failed States

When nations do not enforce the laws of the land on its books which includes this case, there is an obvious breakdown of great and corruptive proportions.

Moreover, not enforcing these laws is one huge factor of failed states and this is happening to far often to those most connected to the reigns of power from Anne Coulter to Rush Limbaugh and so on and so forth.

[GreenTea]

56. Republicans are racist - This is of course no secret, why else would white people

vote against their own financial needs & best interest, based on ignorance, hate & fear?

As we see republicans overt racism towards "people of color" be it black, brown, whatever....Republicans are racist and push the race card, and fear buttons constantly - 24/7!

Sometimes they do it so incredibly blatantly, sometimes it's just simple thinly disguised "code words"....But ALWAYS purposely, and it's purposely done everyday, spewed out hourly by republicans like Limbaugh, Savage, O'Reilly, Beck, etc. and the republican propaganda organization Fox news, republican contributors, dense uniformed tea party nut cases, republican candidates, uneducated fearful workers, etc. etc.

We just have to pay close attention where and how republicans will be stealing votes in precincts & races all across the country this November 2nd - Karl Rove & the republicans have only gotten better at it - This is real.

[RBInMaine]

58. Typical rotten fascist RePUKE dirty tricks.

[penndragon69]

59. You cant be seriouse!

No self respecting, goose stepping southern red neck membe of the KKK
would EVER do something like this!

[pleah]

60. K&R

[NorthCarolina]

62. Guess that's what happens when they don't have Diebold EVM's. eom

[krabigirl]

63. wtf

[burnsei sensei]

66. Welcome back to the Gilded Age! nt

[rasputin1952]

67. That's an "Oh Shit" moment...

For one thing, how did he get the ballots? That is the responsibility of those who work at the polls.

Someone had to "give" them to him, or he had to steal them. Notonly that, but by having the ballots already "punched", someone violated a serious voting law.


Interesting to see if Sessions came up w/this idea.

Still haven't heard much about Coulter and her voter problems either...courts do not look fondly upon such things.

[quakerboy]

84. its probably a Faux ballot

printed out prefilled in their preferred options to "show you how" they think you should vote. Not actual ballots.

[stlsaxman]

68. "Wha, Ah'm sure you boys are gonna vote for Jefferson Beauregard Sessions!?!? Ain't ya?"

dis. gus. ting.

[DFW]

69. i.e. business as usual

Republicans have to use methods like this.

If they played straight, and each party had equal financing and media exposure, the Democrats
would have 300 seats in the House and 70 in the Senate.

Republican ideas may be brain dead, but a billion dollars buys a LOT of life support.

[barb162]

70. I bet every one of those employees voted Democratic Party

:)

[sofa king]

71. Um, don't they call those sample ballots?

I've had a Republican butthole try to hand me one of those every time I've gone to vote since 1992. But, you know, it's not particularly illegal.

[Canuckistanian]

73. Is this a new court case? I've never heard of it before.

Sounds like this company needs to be investigated by the FERC for serious violations of the law.

[Zambero]

74. So this is how they intend to "take the country back"?

Absolutely incomprehensible.

[glinda]

78. No, this is how they intend to "take the Country backwards!"

[jgmurphy]

75. LOL--What an admission by the GOP

That this is the only way they can get votes....by force!

[RainDog]

77. the majority of Americans do not want Republican-style governance

and the rich and powerful in this nation will do anything to stay in power and deny the American people the govt they want.

[defendandprotect]

86. Agree with you both -- I'd question every election back to Nixon/Humphrey -- !!

The LARGE computers used by MSM began coming in during the mid-late-1960's --

Until then, they could only report actual vote tallies. Large computers gave them new

powers to PREDICT and CALL election -- by state, electoral college, for candidates --

even for presidents. We simply saw those new powers reveresed in 2000.


The smaller voting computers came in during the late-1960's --

All of this coincidentally about the time that America was passing the Voting Rights Act.


We need to return to paper ballots, pen -- and hand-counting!!

:)

[Syrinx]

94. Alabama was solidly Democratic until around 1982

That's when electronic voting came in. Now, peer pressure does the job. They tampered with the elections, making people think that a majority of their fellow citizens supported Republicans. Now, perversely, they actually do.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

87. Welcome to DU, jgmurphy!

:hi:

[defendandprotect]

85. Right wing is bringing it's racism out into the open .... Civil War still rages

in some areas --

and the compromise our Founders made with slavery guaranteed that war --

from which we still haven't recovered!

Slavery wasn't about anyone's race -- it was about exploitation of other human beings

for profit.




And, one way or another, elites are still trying to ignite that idea!

Women, children, sexual slavery -- young males -- Larry King was covering this tonight!

[Shining Jack]

93. +1

I totally agree.

88. Wow. Such a surprise.

:sarcasm:

[alp227]

89. ACORN=big big news. Stories like this=absent from mainstream media.

Interesting thing is, in my college political science class I was learning about federal voting rights efforts like the 15th Amendment and Voting Rights Act. Then I come to DU and find stories like this and the Nevada "Latinos for Reform" group telling Latinos not to vote! Ugh, what a disgusting abuse of free speech!

[defendandprotect]

104. There were also reports in late 70's and 80's where political science professors

were telling students that the best way to get your message of displeasure across

was not to vote!!! ????

And how little we've seen of the unveiling of the deceptive attack on ACORN by ...

what was his name/? -- the little creep who also tried a scam on Landrieu?

Those who wanted to blast the news of the lies re ACORN, didn't bother with the story

at all when the truth came out!!

[AzNick]

90. Sounds like Boardwalk Empire and the "darkies" voting the way Nucky tells 'em

Sheesh... Alabama... What do you expect?

[Syrinx]

95. this kind of stuff is happening from coast to coast

I wish it was only here in Alabama. Well, of course, I wish it wasn't happening at all. But you know what I mean.

There is no such thing, anymore, of a reasonable Republican. They are a party of prejudice, theft, war, destruction and hate. From Los Angeles to New York. From Fairbanks to Key West. And all points in between.

Sharron Angle... Carl Paladino... Michelle Bachmann... Sarah Palin... John McCain... it is a rising tide of hate and intolerance. And it ain't just in Alabama. Though I freely admit that we have more than our fair share of idiots.

[indimuse]

KNR! n/t

[indimuse]

96. KNR! n/t

[Enthusiast]

100. K&R

The party of values.