ANOTHER GOP chrmn admits voter-suppression tactics

Fla. Republican: We wanted to suppress black votes
Florida's disgraced former GOP chairman says the party had meetings about "keeping blacks from voting"

In the debate over new laws meant to curb voter fraud in places like Florida, Democrats always charge that Republicans are trying to suppress the vote of liberal voting blocs like blacks and young people, while Republicans just laugh at such ludicrous and offensive accusations. That is, every Republican except for Florida’s former Republican Party chairman Jim Greer, who, scorned by his party and in deep legal trouble, blew the lid off what he claims was a systemic effort to suppress the black vote. In a 630-page deposition recorded over two days in late May, Greer, who is on trial for corruption charges, unloaded a litany of charges against the “whack-a-do, right-wing crazies” in his party, including the effort to suppress the black vote.

In the deposition, released to the press yesterday, Greer mentioned a December 2009 meeting with party officials. “I was upset because the political consultants and staff were talking about voter suppression and keeping blacks from voting,” he said, according to the Tampa Bay Times. He also said party officials discussed how “minority outreach programs were not fit for the Republican Party,” according to the AP.

The comments, if true (he is facing felony corruption charges and has an interest in scorning his party), would confirm what critics have long suspected. Florida Gov. Rick Scott is currently facing inquiries from the Justice Department and pressure from civil rights groups over his purging of voter rolls in the state, an effort that critics say has disproportionately targeted minorities and other Democratic voters. One group suing the state claims up to 87 percent of the voters purged from the rolls so far have been people of color.

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/27/fla_rep ... ack_votes/

Imagine my surprise?!?!? Gee, when you have your own state party chairman spilling his guts over his disgust with the TeaPublican-neonazi's tactics, well, shoot--Who can you trust!?!? (We should put him in touch with Krauthammer...He can't believe what's going on these days either....) :VeryScared:

The comments, if true (he is facing felony corruption charges and has an interest in scorning his party)

You missed emphasizing something there SFB. Don't bother thanking me, I'm happy to help out. But you keep right on tilting at those phantom windmills - it's funny in a tragic kind of way.

Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.-Saul Alinsky

And Saul was SO right...about nearly everything...

And conservatives are such a target-rich environment...

PrintSmith wrote:

The comments, if true (he is facing felony corruption charges and has an interest in scorning his party)

You missed emphasizing something there SFB. Don't bother thanking me, I'm happy to help out. But you keep right on tilting at those phantom windmills - it's funny in a tragic kind of way.

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Alinsky would approve of those tactics too when African-Americans voted for the party of Lincoln.

And Saul was SO right...about nearly everything...

And conservatives are such a target-rich environment...