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Yeah, if I were you, I’d be scared of a fair fight too, LaRose.
One of the most posted pictures of LaRose that I have seen is him at the inauguration with Smelly Ann Conway. He’s evil. He just hides it from the public.
Hans von Spakovsky: greatest super villain name ever. Welcome Back, Your Repugnancy!
Republican corruption is both deep and wide.
It extends to every GOP officeholder in the country.
Better news - Arnold Schwarzenegger is one-upping Mike Bloomberg by offering to pay to reopen voting locations in areas that were once covered by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act:
https://twitter.com/clarajeffery/status/1308955664799002625?s=21
As a fellow Ohioan and constituent of Mr. LaRose in each of his political stops, he is a spineless lackey that does the bidding of his monied GOP benefactors. He checks all the boxes of a central casting politician (family money, veteran, attractive family) but has no core principles other than blind ambition. Like Rob Portman, he’ll take many populist positions initially and not wholly commit. But, when the rubber hits the road (Akron reference), he’ll cave to the wishes of his puppet masters.
It is called “economic anxiety” and only white people have it, I have been informed.
I am glad to hear about expanded voting access, but a little tired of our fundamental rights being dependent on the largess of billionaires
Maybe it’s time to pursue RICO charges against these “voter fraud” proponents.
SSSSHHHHH!!! Don’t anybody tell Justice Roberts about this.
He is convinced there is no “widespread, coordinated voter suppression by state governments.”
Moron.
It’s raining harder than ever now, Justice Roberts. Can we please have our umbrella back? Actually, give us YOUR giant golf umbrella.
I am so tired of people who live 10 minutes away from their polling place or DMV saying it is easy to get to your polling place or DMV.
Then make 10 minutes the standard and expand the number of polling places for everyone.
new Franklin and Marshall registered-voter poll of Pennsylvania:
Biden 49%
Trump 40%
As an aside, based on his past testimony and performance, the next time the GOP tries to offer von Spakovsky as an expert on voting fraud, etc., the judge should deny him being qualified and refuse to allow him to testify to any opinions. The guy is a fucking KKKlown of the highest order…7th degree blackbelt in KKKlown Fu.
And they simply cannot win on a level playing field, even in “pink” states. They know that, so they come up with whatever means necessary, whether marginally legal, unethical, or illegal to suppress the vote: purging voter roles, disinformation, poll taxes and voter ID, obstacles to registering, eliminating / reducing polling places, filing frivolous lawsuits . . . The list goes on and on.
Washington State has a republican SOS; is there a way to find out if she’s attended these briefings?
This is such bullshit. I drive by three on the way to and from work - two in one county and another in a second all next to city hall.
Somewhat OT, but there was an interesting article in the weekend “Review” section of a recent WSJ about how America’s so-called elite have next to zero sense of public duty (e.g. Bezos and Schmuckerberg) and that there is definitely a positive sense of noblesse oblige lacking on both sides of the Atlantic. Wall Street and the City think that only chumps work for the nation’s greater good, and then help elect Republicans and Tories to prove this.
“If the secretary is turning the voting systems in Ohio into a partisan endeavor, that is a matter of extremely grave concern,” he said.
Quelle surprise.
His “my hands are tied by the law” excuse was not credible from the beginning.
