{"id":194556,"date":"2008-09-14T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/14\/republicans-to-use-foreclosure-data-in-black-neighborhoods-to-suppress-votes\/"},"modified":"2008-09-14T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T04:13:00","slug":"republicans-to-use-foreclosure-data-in-black-neighborhoods-to-suppress-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/14\/republicans-to-use-foreclosure-data-in-black-neighborhoods-to-suppress-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans to Use Foreclosure Data in Black Neighborhoods to Suppress Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because, as we all know, the real motto of the Republican party is, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.michiganmessenger.com\/4076\/lose-your-house-lose-your-vote\">N*gg*rs should not be allowed to vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, this is illegal:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>\u201cYou can\u2019t challenge people without a factual basis for doing so,\u201d said J. Gerald Hebert, a former voting rights litigator for the U.S. Justice Department who now runs the Campaign Legal Center, a Washington D.C.-based public-interest law firm. \u201cI don\u2019t think a foreclosure notice is sufficient basis for a challenge, because people often remain in their homes after foreclosure begins and sometimes are able to negotiate and refinance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once again, the Republican&#8217;s cynicism exceeds my capacity to be cynical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because, as we all know, the real motto of the Republican party is, &#8220;N*gg*rs should not be allowed to vote. The thing is, this is illegal: \u201cYou can\u2019t challenge people without a factual basis for doing so,\u201d said J. Gerald Hebert, a former voting rights litigator for the U.S. Justice Department who now runs the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1144,970,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-electronics","category-corruption","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194556"}],"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=194556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}