What a couple of goddamned crooks.
Thank you TPM for reporting on this. It is beyond shameful and reflects how sad and sorrowful the GOP base has become. Cheating is not a winning strategy. Or at least, it shouldn’t be.
I used to belong to the Republican party, but switched after Reagan. This is why.
If that’s the sort of stuff he thanks God for he’s not gonna like his longterm future.
Kobach indicated that the problems with Newby’s job performance in Kansas would have no impact on his federal position. Because, of course, honesty and integrity have nothing to do with a campaign to “prevent voter fraud.” Disgusting…
Between this and a front page article on the NY Times about how Brownback is trying to impeach judges in Kansas, you have to wonder how this will all turn out for the average person in the state. I know that they are mostly all hard right, but the ongoing devolution of the state, voting rights, and the state judicial system has to be having an effect, right?
Gosh it’s a tight race to the bottom between KansASS and TexASS!
Here in Wichita, people are seething. Everybody knows Brownback stole the 2014 election.
Don’t forget Kentucky! Our new Bagger Gov. is running fast to catch up!
Indiana, OK and FL are also on this race to the bottom of humanity, along with KansASS and TexASS. Other states (no others come to mind immediately) are in line to join the GOP’s corruption and inhuman policies.
How come Democrats don’t have the balls to do creative things? Here the Kobach anti-democracy gang infiltrated the government and took advantage of sleeping Democrats. Shame on Kobach and his thug, but also shame on the DNC for not raising a stink. This shouldn’t be a minor story, but is because there are no fighting Democrats.
The federal body is supposed to have two Republican and two Democratic commissioners but has only one Democrat now because of a vacancy.
It’s working as expected. This is conservative style governance: Govt should be small and consist only of Republicans.
“Newly has called the audit inaccurate and misleading.”
My favorite form of lying is lying by telling the truth. Eg.: “Did you rob the bank at 10:05 this morning?” “No (Sotto voce: It was 10:06).”
Or in this case, “(Sotto voce: It was $17, 999).”
The federal body is supposed to have two Republican and two Democratic commissioners but has only one Democrat now because of a vacancy.
How long has one of the Democratic seats been vacant and if they are suppose to have equal representation of both parties to prevent shenanigans why are they allowed to operate with such a vacancy?
The little-known commission was created in 2002 to help prevent a repeat of the disputed 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore following voting chaos in the crucial state of Florida.
Oh right, they were created during the Bush administration to prevent a repeat of the events that put the Bush administration in power, well guess that answers my second question.
“”“following voting chaos in the crucial state of Florida”"""
America right there in a nutshell is the cause of most of your ills. Look at that choice of words. Look at how those words are assembled to give an impression. And it’s all bullshit.
You don’t engineer chaos. If your purpose was wrecking the voting landscape in Florida to award an election to a man that did not win it…that aint chaos. That’s mission accomplished.
I live in Florida and was there at the rime. In the infamous Duval County. There was no chaos. There was contrived confusion, smoke screening and lying. Plenty of that but there was no loss of control, as chaos implies, in any of it. It was planned and executed by the numbers and the ABC’s. It went down as it was supposed to with every GOP’er in America chipping in. And America got Bush…which means it got Iraq and a gross mishandling of Afghanistan. The foundation for ISIS was laid that day in Florida. And that journalist would have us believe it was chaos at fault. Bullshit.
It’s a concerted efforts in many of the “red” states. If you look at their legislative agendas, it’s cookie cutter stuff right out of the ALEC playbook. Depressing really. What kind of human being do you have to be to think it’s OK to have a life mission that is bent on destruction of other people’s rights?
Ratfkers…this is what the GOP stands for. Don’t do what is good for the COUNTRY. Screw them into accepting what the RNC wants…or shoving it down throats…
There is something very familiar about this story. Wasn’t this information public quite some time back? I feel I read it months ago, Alarming but somehow not new.
Why has the GOP become a corrupt organization?
This is an instance of RICO, racketeering found in organized crime.
Deja vu again? It is GOP corruption and it is endemic.