Flyer About Black Voters Angers Mo. GOP

[Rose Siding]

ST. LOUIS Oct. 17, 2004 — Missouri's Republican Party wants a Democratic-aligned group to stop circulating a get-out-the-vote flier that includes a 1960s photograph of a firefighter hosing a black man that reads: "This is what they used to do to keep us from voting."

The America Coming Together handout accuses Republicans of conspiring to suppress the black vote through intimidation and such tactics as putting "phony cops at polling places but only in African American neighborhoods."

"They make African-American voters stand in line for hours, then turn them away from the polls," the flier reads. "Now (U.S. Attorney General) John Ashcroft is trying to prevent African-Americans from registering to vote at all."

The Republican Party of Missouri called the fliers "racially charged" and said they were designed to obscure Republican efforts to increase black voting.

"This kind of false advertising aimed at African-Americans is clearly an attempt to intimidate and mislead voters," said Paul Sloca, a spokesman for the state GOP.

Sara Howard, ACT's Missouri spokeswoman, on Sunday defended the handouts as part of a voter-education effort. She said Republican concerns may stem from reports of increased voter registration among minorities.

"The Republican Party knows that generally when African-Americans vote in large numbers, Republicans lose," she said. "They will do everything in their power to try and prevent that from happening."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=173870

[bemildred]

1. The Republican Party of Missouri called the fliers "racially charged"

Like the Willy Horton ads, maybe?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. I know

Those shitheads can dish it out but they can't take it.

[glitch]

9. or the FL voter purges maybe? nt

[NewYorkerfromMass]

10. or the fact that the purged are STILL purged

barely anyone is restored to that list from 2000.

[MSgt213]

2. They are probably mad because the fliers they up and were going to blame

on the democrats are rendered useless now.

[Philostopher]

4. The freakin' bastards did this stuff in Florida in 2000!

Roadblocks, rent-a-cops, poll challenges, asking potential voters for photo ID -- they did all this shit in Florida, especially in heavily Haitian and Caribbean neighborhoods, where they knew people might not know their rights. To even pretend that they didn't do this is a lie.

Credit where credit is due -- Sara Howard called bullshit on it. She wasn't at all delicate, and we all know she's right. Blacks don't vote for Republicans -- why would they care what ACT's brochures were saying if they don't think it's absolutely true?

[bobthedrummer]

5. It's simple: VOTE OR DIE.

:hi:

[wildeyed]

6. Go Team.

Give the MO gops a big ole dose of their own medicine.

[jrthin]

7. Well, it's the truth and

it's and a fact. So what's their problem...they can't handle the truth?

[MO_Dem]

13. Nope, the GOP can't handle the truth

they want to be the ones doing the lying. They want their lies to be unchallenged by the truth!

[sonias]

8. The repuke party is "racially charged"

How much evidence do we have to keep digging up. repukes absolutely want to suppress voter turnout, especially minority turnout, since we vote overwhelmingly against them.

repukes will do anything to win, except by actually getting more votes at the polls. They recount, stop recounts, re-district, gerrymander, disenfranchise, intimate voters, and use fraudulent felon lists. You name it, they have tried it. And they now want to control e-voting and the keep the software secret.

fuck all of you repukes! We're voting in record numbers and taking our country back.
:mad:

Sonia

[havocmom]

11. More GOP running FROM their record. Wh, yes, party of personal

responsibility indeed. THEY can run but they cannot hide from their record.

Hey, Republican whinners: It happened. It is fact. There is no law against remiding people about history; in fact, history lessons are a good idea.

[AndyTiedye]

12. That Just Convinced Me to Donate to ACT

If they're causing the repubs that much pain
and making the news
they must be doing something right.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

14. Sounds like the flyer struck a nerve...too damn bad.

[Eloriel]

15. That's a GREAT flyer -- and if the MO GOP objects, well,

they need to disavow their party's former AND current bad boy ways. Mostly, my guess is they mostly object to be CALLED on their dirty tricks.

Like my mother used to say: Don't DO things you're ashamed of (or would be if people found out).

Of course, the GOP is anything but ashamed, of ANYthing, but they at least have the sense to know they don't like being caught.

[VegasWolf]

16. If it wasn't for Civil Rights, the whole south would be Democratic.

[FreakinDJ]

17. If the Shoe fits