{"id":197962,"date":"2007-12-28T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/28\/kansas-gop-chairman-admits-to-illegal-voter-suppression\/"},"modified":"2007-12-28T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T22:50:00","slug":"kansas-gop-chairman-admits-to-illegal-voter-suppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/28\/kansas-gop-chairman-admits-to-illegal-voter-suppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas GOP Chairman Admits to Illegal Voter Suppression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So not shocked.<\/p>\n<p>When Nixon decided to appeal to the southern racists, he eagerly embraced their Jim Crow voting strategies too.<\/p>\n<p>However, I am a bit surprised that <a href=\"http:\/\/bluetiderising.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/kobach-admits-to-coordinated-voter.html\">Kris Kobach would brag about it in public<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>To date, the Kansas GOP has identified and caged more voters in the last 11 months than the previous two years!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a primer to this illegal, the RNC has been <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caging_list\">under a consent decree <\/a>for some time, and quite frankly UnAmerican technique <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2167284\/pagenum\/all\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I guarantee you, BTW, a lot of the voters &#8220;caged&#8221; are serving in the military overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So not shocked. When Nixon decided to appeal to the southern racists, he eagerly embraced their Jim Crow voting strategies too. However, I am a bit surprised that Kris Kobach would brag about it in public: To date, the Kansas GOP has identified and caged more voters in the last 11 months than the previous &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,1052,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-crimes","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197962"}],"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=197962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}