The GOP sure thinks its racist!!!
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Florida GOP Admits Changes in Voting Laws Were Made to Suppress Blacks, Democrats
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Nov 27, 2012
By Atlanta Daily World
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Former Republican leaders in Florida have admitted the state’s voter ID law was nothing but a failed attempt at voter suppression.
It was long suspected by many on the outside, but today Republicans who were responsible for passing the legislation that caused long voter lines and kept the state’s electoral votes from being counted until days after the election had been decided admitted to The Palm Beach Post that the laws were really just meant to assure a GOP victory in the state.
Former Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer and former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist both say that early Republican claims that the law was intended to fight voter fraud were bogus.
Greer says he attended various meetings, beginning in 2009, at which GOP staff members and consultants explained their real reasoning for passing the law that reduced early voting from 14 days to eight and took away Sunday voting.
“The Republican Party, the strategists, the consultants, they firmly believe that early voting is bad for Republican Party candidates,” Greer told The Post. “It’s done for one reason and one reason only… ‘We’ve got to cut down on early voting because early voting is not good for us,’ ” Greer said he was told.
“They never came in to see me and tell me we had a (voter) fraud issue,” Greer said. “It’s all a marketing ploy.”
Greer is now under indictment, accused of stealing $200,000 from the party through a counterfeit campaign fundraising operation. He has counter sued, saying party leaders knew what he was doing and never objected.
Christ, who is no longer a Republican, backed Greer’s story. He said he was never told explicitly to disenfranchise black voters, “but it looked to me like that was what was being suggested,” Crist said. “And I didn’t want them to go there at all.”
A GOP consultant who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution was less restrained.
“I know that the cutting out of the Sunday before Election Day was one of their targets only because that’s a big day when the black churches organize themselves,” he said.
A number of voter registration organizations, minority coalitions and Democratic politicians in Florida are now demanding investigations either by state or federal officials.
“The sad thing about that is yes, there is prejudice and racism in the party but the real prevailing thought is that they don’t think minorities will ever vote Republican,” Greer said. “It’s not really a broad-based racist issue. It’s simply that the Republican Party gave up a long time ago ever believing that anything they did would get minorities to vote for them.”
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Rand Paul: GOP shouldn’t go 'crazy' on voter ID
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Paul also emphasized his commitment to restoring voting rights for felons. | Getty
By POLITICO STAFF | 5/9/14 8:06 PM EDT Updated: 5/14/14 6:36 AM EDT
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has said that the GOP’s push for tough voter ID and related laws is “offending” minorities and that the party shouldn’t “go too crazy” on the matter.
The comments, made in an interview with The New York Times on Friday, could upset conservative voters who have promoted the laws in several states as a way to stop voter fraud.
Opponents of the laws argue that voter fraud is a rare problem, and that the real reason behind measures that require voters to produce specific identification, limit early voting and other statutes is to effectively disenfranchise poor and minority voters who tend to support Democrats.
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Paul, a potential 2016 presidential candidate who is trying to reach beyond his libertarian-leaning base, suggested the GOP was over-hyping the topic.
“Everybody’s gone completely crazy on this voter ID thing,” Paul said, noting that the debates over the law had a racial element to them. “I think it’s wrong for Republicans to go too crazy on this issue because it’s offending people.”
Paul made the comments in Memphis, where he spoke at the Republican National Committee meeting as well as met with a group of black pastors.
Paul has offended African-Americans in the past, including with comments that questioned the Civil Rights Act.
But he also has made a concerted effort to reach out to blacks during what appears to be a build up to a presidential campaign. In particular, he has focused on the criminal justice system, pushing for changes in drug sentencing laws, for instance.
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According to the Times, Paul emphasized his commitment to restoring voting rights for felons, another issue of concern for the African-American community.
“The bigger issue actually is whether you get to vote if you have a felony conviction,” he said. “There’s 180,000 people in Kentucky who can’t vote. And I don’t know the racial breakdown, but it’s probably more black than white.”
On Monday, Paul senior adviser Doug Stafford issued a statement downplaying the senator’s comments, saying they were made as part of a “larger discussion about criminal justice reform and restoration of voting rights.”
“In the course of that discussion, [Paul] reiterated a point he has made before that while there may be some instances of voter fraud, it should not be a defining issue of the Republican Party, as it is an issue that is perhaps perceived in a way it is not intended,” Stafford said. “In terms of the specifics of voter ID laws, Senator Paul believes it’s up to each state to decide that type of issue.”
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GOP Official Resigns After Saying Purpose Of Voter ID Is To Suppress Votes Of Democrats, ‘Lazy Blacks’
By Ian Millhiser October 25, 2013 at 9:00 am Updated: October 25, 2013 at 9:26 am
"GOP Official Resigns After Saying Purpose Of Voter ID Is To Suppress Votes Of Democrats, ‘Lazy Blacks’"
Until Thursday, Don Yelton was a precinct chair in the Buncombe County, North Carolina Republican Party. That ended after a Daily Show interview riddled with racism and candid admissions about the purpose of a voter suppression bill enacted by Republican lawmakers in his state. Over the course of the interview Yelton admitted that he supports requiring voters to show ID, in addition to the other, many voter suppression provisions included in the North Carolina law, because “the law is going to kick the Democrats in the butt.” He also denied that the law is racist during the course of an interview where he both used a particular racial slur that begins with the letter “n” and claimed that he is not racist because he “one my best friends is black.” Watch it:
Yelton also offered several other reasons why he supports the voter suppression law. Among them, “
f it hurts a bunch of college kids that’s too lazy to get up off their bohunkus [sic] and get a photo ID, so be it,” and “if it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that wants the government to give them everything, so be it.”
In the wake of Yelton’s confession that a Republican voter suppression law will suppress Democratic votes, the Buncombe County Republican Party asked him to resign his position within the party, and the country GOP chair says Yelton did so. The party also claims that Yelton was “recently reprimanded and removed from his position as a precinct chair in Buncombe County for a period of time in 2012 through 2013,” though he was reelected at a very sparsely attended party convention.
. To some it's a game to be played. To others it's a way to express one's machismo.
), but here goes: Some people who get wrapped up in politics feel so angry toward the other side that they will even demonize private individuals who don't share their views. 
Please don't misunderstand. I like both you guys! 
Anyway, I hope you have a good time. 
