{"id":176697,"date":"2020-04-11T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/11\/the-gop-is-rolling-out-the-brute-squad\/"},"modified":"2020-04-11T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T01:04:00","slug":"the-gop-is-rolling-out-the-brute-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/11\/the-gop-is-rolling-out-the-brute-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP is Rolling Out the Brute Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically, they are looking to <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/04\/11\/republican-poll-watchers-vote-by-mail-voter-fraud\/\">put retired police and military in voting locations to intimidate voters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this explains why they are so opposed to postal voting, you cannot send the Brute Squad to everyone&#8217;s mailbox:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">On Election Day in November, some polling places could be patrolled by off-duty police officers and veterans, according to a plan hatched by Republican operatives.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The idea is a reprisal of once-illegal Election Day \u201cballot security\u201d intimidation tactics, intended to challenge voter registration and remove voters from the rolls. At a strategy session in February attended by conservative donors and activists, several people expressed a specific need for Republican poll watchers in \u201cinner city\u201d and predominantly Native American precincts, according to audio recordings of the event obtained by The Intercept and Documented.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cYou get some [Navy] Seals in those polls and they\u2019re going to say, \u2018No, no, this is what it says. This is how we\u2019re going to play this show,\u2019\u201d said Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote, a group that lobbies for voting restrictions and organizes volunteers to go into precincts and aggressively challenge voters who they believe are improperly registered. \u201cThat\u2019s what we need. We need people who are unafraid to call it like they see it.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Republican Party is not the opposition, it is the enemy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically, they are looking to put retired police and military in voting locations to intimidate voters. I guess this explains why they are so opposed to postal voting, you cannot send the Brute Squad to everyone&#8217;s mailbox: On Election Day in November, some polling places could be patrolled by off-duty police officers and veterans, according &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,375,374,582],"class_list":["post-176697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-elections","tag-politics","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}