Who Was Really Doing The Intimidating?
While Jesse Jackson, Harry Belafonte, and television Judge Greg Mathis went off on President Bush and Republicans during the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 last weekend in Atlanta, it would seem these “activists” routinely talk first, while totally ignoring little things like… facts.
“It is indeed criminal to steal an election and within two years run up a federal deficit of half-a-trillion dollars, send our young people over to Iraq to die for an unjust war. What they are doing is criminal.”
- Judge Greg Mathis
“In the state of Ohio, where they had fewer voting booths and long lines in minority neighborhoods and no lines and many voting booths in white neighborhoods, that the balance is not what it should have been.”
- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
“The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.”
- Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA)
“We are here to take on President Bush, [Vice President] Dick Cheney. We are here to take on [House Majority Leader] Tom DeLay. We are here to take on the new appointee to the Supreme Court, John Roberts.”
- Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
President Bush’s “record against human rights, civil rights, economic rights, is absolutely terrible.”
- Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.)
America was being ruled by the “Bush mentality,” where “crony capitalism” was supreme.
- Rep. John Conyers (D-MI)
The Voting Rights Act extension is critical because “the same old enemies of civil rights and voting rights will always keep up their ugly activities. Race baiters and discriminators may go underground, but they never move out of town.”
- Jesse Jackson (D-USA)
In rebutting Jesse Jackson’s comment (of all people to talk about “race baiting”) I would hope all would agree, profanity would be appropriate here….
What’s most maddening is that in order for people to actually believe this bile, they would need the willing assistance from the press that either knows the truth, or is ignorant due to the lesson plans of liberal teachers and professors.
What’s also maddening is that these “activists” who know better, consistently and constantly insult the intelligence of black people just to keep themselves in what semblance of power they think they have. And why to this day hasn’t the evidence that voter intimidation on blacks is a myth been made truly public?
Because the truth hurts….
While Democrats routinely accuse Republicans of voter intimidation and suppression, neither party has a clean record on the issue. Instead, the evidence shows that Democrats waged aggressive intimidation and suppression campaigns against Republican voters and volunteers in 2004. Republicans have not been exempt from similar criticism in this area, as alleged voter intimidation and suppression activity by GOP operatives led the Republican National Committee to sign a consent decree repudiating such tactics in 1982. However, a careful review of the facts shows that in 2004, paid Democrat operatives were far more involved in voter intimidation and suppression efforts than their Republican counterparts. Examples include:
- Paid Democrat operatives charged with slashing tires of 25 Republican get-out-the-vote vans in Milwaukee on the morning of Election Day.
- Misleading telephone calls made by Democrat operatives targeting Republican voters in Ohio with the wrong date for the election and faulty polling place information.
- Intimidating and deceiving mailings and telephone calls paid for by the DNC threatening Republican volunteers in Florida with legal action.
- Union-coordinated intimidation and violence campaign targeting Republican campaign offices and volunteers resulting in a broken arm for a GOP volunteer in Florida.
Vote fraud and voter registration fraud were significant problems in at least a dozen states around the county. Vote fraud is a reality in America that occurred not only in large battleground states like Wisconsin but in places like Alabama and Kentucky. The record indicates that in 2004, voter registration fraud was mainly the work of so-called “nonpartisan†groups such as Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and NAACP National Voter Fund. Examples include:
- Joint task force in Wisconsin found “clear evidence of fraud in the Nov. 2 election in Milwaukee,†including more than 200 felon voters, more than 100 double voters and thousands more ballots cast than voters recorded as having voted in the city.
- NAACP National Voter Fund worker in Ohio paid crack cocaine in exchange for a large number of fraudulent voter registration cards in names of Dick Tracy, Mary Poppins and other fictional characters.
- Former ACORN worker said there was “a lot of fraud committed†by group in Florida, as ACORN workers submitted thousands of fraudulent registrations in a dozen states across the country, resulting in a statewide investigation of the group in Florida and multiple indictments and convictions of ACORN/Project Vote workers for voter registration fraud in several states.
Excerpt from:“Vote Fraud, Intimidation & Suppresion in the 2004 Presidential Election”American Center for Voting Rights, August 2005
