B-I-N-G-Oh Hell No: Judge Rules That Alabama Republicans Acted With Racist Intent to Suppress Voter

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.angryblacklady.com/2011/10/22/alabama-gop-acted-with-racist-intent-voter-suppression/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alabama-gop-acted-with-racist-intent-voter-suppression

It’s always been about race and power for the GOP.

Attention Alabama Republican Party: You have officially lost the “But we’re not racists!” contest.

A federal judge accused two state Republicans, called by federal prosecutors in a massive Alabama corruption case, of cooperating with the feds because of their “ulterior motives rooted in naked political ambition and pure racial bias.”

State Sen. Scott Beason and former Rep. Benjamin Lewis, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson wrote, “lack credibility for two reasons.”

“First, their motive for cooperating with F.B.I. investigators was not to clean up corruption but to increase Republican political fortunes by reducing African-American voter turnout. Second, they lack credibility because the record establishes their purposeful, racist intent,” Thompson wrote.

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[gateley]

1. Good! nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. K&R!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Good for that judge! nt

[socialindependocrat]

4. Excellent. n/t

[MADem]

5. Why I do declare--I am shocked, I tell you! Completely and utterly SHOCKED!

Eh....no, not really. I'm not even slightly surprised.

That's the real pity in this new century.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Hmm not always

but for a long time There is a reason AA did vote for the GOP until oh the 1930s... regularly... The GOP has forgotten why though and they are intent on becoming the 1850s Democrats.

[Firebrand Gary]

7. K&R

[pampango]

8. Those Alabama republicans are on a roll - immigration legislation and voter suppression.

One targeted against brown folks and one against black folks.

Indeed "It’s always been about race and power for the GOP." They can dress it up - "rule of law", "anti-corruption" - in whatever clothes they think will fool people most effectively, but it always seems to come down to race and power.

[Doctor_J]

9. Very encouraging. Hopefully Slappy and Fat Tony won't get

to weigh in

[annabanana]

10. poor poor Alabama. They have been at the mercy of the worst impulses

of human nature since the founding of the Republic.

[malaise]

11. Thank you Judge

:yourock:

[McCamy Taylor]

12. Alabama's formula for capitalism is keep the workers oppressed and poor.

That's how they draw manufacturers to the state. Every time they kick some minority group, a new Japanese auto company says "Hmmm. Good place to build."

[Kurovski]

13. K&R. (nt)

[jpak]

14. Hee Haw Hee Haw

:thumbsup:

[Enthusiast]

15. This extends to the entire nation.

The Republican Party does not want minorities to vote. That much is pretty clear no matter how much they deny it.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

16. Sad to say - BUT

This will change nothing!!!!

[elleng]

17. Right, because

'Now let’s keep in mind a massive number of federal charges on this corruption case were tossed out by a federal jury over the summer. The DoJ went after the remaining charges that were deadlocked with a new trial scheduled for this month. But I never honestly thought I would see this level of brutal honesty by any federal judge on the issue of the relentless GOP efforts to disenfranchise Democratic voters. Even though the decision is just an order allowing the racial aspects of their testimony into the record of the new case (the DoJ argued that race was irrelevant to the actual corruption charges) for anyone to publicly admit like this that this is what the GOP is doing to people is so refreshing it’s almost stunning.'

To some extent, however, it can serve as precedent for courts officially to recognize these factors, when relevant.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. It might be because

of the Voting Rights Act and the racial component associated with that for certain southern states. The question would be for the other states not bound by the original Act to have oversight, many of which may be doing their own voter suppression for the same reason, but unable to argue racial motivation in the same manner.

[underpants]

19. Do NOT piss off an angry black lady

I tend to find black women and befriend them everywhere I have worked. For God's sake don't get the AKA ladies on your bad side.

[Number23]

20. You got that right!

For God's sake don't get the AKA ladies on your bad side.

:fistbump: :rofl: :rofl:

[bertman]

21. REC. nt