{"id":184120,"date":"2012-07-30T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T00:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/30\/yep-no-racism-here\/"},"modified":"2012-07-30T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T00:28:00","slug":"yep-no-racism-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/30\/yep-no-racism-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Yep, No Racism Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former head of the Florida Republican party is now saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/07\/27\/fla_republican_we_suppressed_black_votes\/\">the Republican voter ID law was specifically intended to suppress the black vote<\/a>, and that this was explicitly discussed behind closed doors:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I<span style=\"color: blue;\">n 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\u2019s 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 \u201cwhack-a-do, right-wing crazies\u201d in his party, including the effort to suppress the black vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: blue;\">In the deposition, released to the press yesterday, Greer mentioned a December 2009 meeting with party officials. \u201cI was upset because the political consultants and staff were talking about voter suppression and keeping blacks from voting,\u201d he said, according to the Tampa Bay Times. He also said party officials discussed how \u201cminority outreach programs were not fit for the Republican Party,\u201d according to the AP.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One hopes that his testimony is introduced in the suits that the DoJ is filing against Rick Scott and his merry band of racists.<\/p>\n<p>This is the proverbial smoking gun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former head of the Florida Republican party is now saying that the Republican voter ID law was specifically intended to suppress the black vote, and that this was explicitly discussed behind closed doors: In the debate over new laws meant to curb voter fraud in places like Florida, Democrats always charge that Republicans are &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1000,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-elections","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184120"}],"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=184120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}