Hmmm. A special counsel came up with all of this?
Well, they’re setting one worthy example in Alabama, aren’t they?
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Not much has been written about this tramp, but she’s a real piece of work too.
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Too bad Lincoln didn’t let the south go. Slavery would have died a natural death, and the country would have been spared the odious southern mentality that has polluted our politics to this very day.
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I’m just glad we’re “post-racial”, according to Justice Roberts and, no doubt, to be confirmed by the SCOTUS seat thief, Justice Gorsuch.
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I hope you don’t mind if I add my former governor, now Vice President, Mike Pence to your list of scum!!!
The hate republicans have toward women if almost
as strong as their hate towards blacks!
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Alabama continues to be the shame of the nation. While the crooked attorney general gets a Senate Appointment, the Public defender’s office in Jefferson County gets gutted as the director Kira Fonteneau is forced to leave:
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“Whether making it harder for black people to vote was part of Mason’s motivation in ordering the closures – or a factor in how the governor’s office handled the fallout that ensued – is subject to debate.”
This debate must be taking place among people in an alternative universe unfamiliar with the concept of the open-and-shut case.
If the Governor authorizes DMV closures that will not affect his allies, as reported, it means he is ordering DMV closures that will exclusively or mainly affect his adversaries, i.e.,Democrats, who are disproportionately black. So that’s roughly 100% clear.
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Alabama has larger problems than just the ex-Gov.
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Now that Bentley is disposed of, let’s get down to the strange business of Senator Strange. Looks like a straight up quid pro quo from the outside. I tell the Leg. not to run impeachment investigations because I will do it, then skip town when the Gov. just happens to make me a Sen.
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Well, in this case it seems that everyone got fucked…
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Want black people to vote for you? Stop treating them like shit and expecting them to support you.
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I don’t want to paint with too wide a brush on Alabama cuz Arizona where I reside ain’t 'zackly without it’s own problems the legislature deliberately causes.
Our governor is doing what he can to ruin K-12 education. Would any out there be happy with a 0.04% raise?(not a typo). AZ is dead last in teacher salaries and has 8000 unfilled positions state wide.
One shining bright spot tho is Joe Arpiao is no longer sheriff of Maricopa County and his tent city is closing down. No more neighborhood wide canvassing looking for “illegal” brown people I hope. Arpiao’s deputies used to stop people innocently walking on the street and demand proof that they were citizens.
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Have we reached the stage where “Republican” is a synonym for “scumbag”? I would argue that, by and large, “Republican Voters” is more nearly a synonym for “utterly stupid”.
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Strange isn’t so much strange as he is obviously a scumbag of the highest order. Since he was not elected to his office the courts should be able to rule his selection a criminal act and put him in jail instead.
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Oh absolutely
Christian Taliban indeed
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But because of the loony racist ways that courts have ruled over the decades, it can be a defense at law. Gerrymandering to disadvantage your political opponents is legally OK. If there’s a discriminatory effect, there’s a whole rigamarole of whether the effect is strong enough to require rolling things back. Sometimes the court rules it is, but sometimes it isn’t.
However. As BridgeGate conclusively showed, mucking with public services to disadvantage your political opponents can get your – or at least your subordinates – time in the slammer.
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I don’t know the protocol, but I have a bad feeling it would be the Alabama US Attorney who would investigate on the Strange appointment. Which means DOJ. Which means the slimy hand of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions.
I think. Anyone with enlightenment on the process?
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Good article, Tierney.
Something is indeed rotten in the state of Alabama…
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We reached that stage in 1980.
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and I am similarly shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn that the Republican Party politicians in the old Confederate States will do anything they can to keep African-American voters and their fellow-travelers from voting against Nixon’s White Southern GOP.
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