At $100K, they get a Kris Kobach bobble-headâŚ
Kansas GOP is very, very bad. Not the worst (Iâm looking at you, Alabama and Florida), but you really suck.
Goddamnit. Dems just have such a way of messing up the message. Itâs not about whether people are participating. He makes it sound like theyâre all just too lazy. Itâs about the OPPORTUNITY to participate. I donât give a fuck if a polling place gets opened and serves nobody. It should still be open in anticipation of serving them.
Schloz will milk them for all theyâre worth.
It is so tempting to draw a map showing where the polling places would be in republican areas with adjacent-town rules and one polling place per 13,000 registered voters.
Alabama and Florida are pikers compared to NC.
A little background on Scholzman!
Whoâs Bradley Schlozman? As an msnbc report noted in March, âDuring the George W. Bush administration, an internal Justice Department report found Bush appointees had attempted to purge the division of liberals, or as one Bush appointee Bradley Schlozman put it, âadherents of Maoâs little red book.â The report found that Schlozman, who had vowed to âgerrymanderâ all those âcrazy libsâ out of the division, replacing them with Republican loyalists, had violated civil service laws with his hiring practices.â
Well of course he purged, bless his little heart.
Class, letâs review. The original polling place was in the white affluent area, next to the golf club. As these brown people populated, we shut that one in-town polling place down, citing construction, which has been confirmed there was no construction. Rather than using local schools as alternate sites (ACLU recommended and very common) to alleviate the 10-fold higher average voter to poll ratio (13,000 vs. 1200), we relocated the polling place a mile outta town, with no public transportation available.
Quiz on Friday.
I hate the fact that dubya gets his reputation washed pseudo-clean by giving candy to Michelle Obama. He had a full on set of proto-nazis working for him in folks like Bradley Schlongman and Hans Von Spakovsky-Ribbentrop.
The larger issue is why does a city of 27,000 residents have only one polling place? In Minnesota that city would have 10 or more polling places. Fridley, MN - population 27,000 has 12 polling places. Winona, MN - population 27,000 has 16 polling places. 1 polling place is designed to keep people from voting.
Recall the question, âWhatâs The Matter With Kansas?â
The answer is, âEvidently not much a little voting fraud canât fix.â
More on Schlozman from that MSNBC story: when he was district attorney in Kansas City, he brought a case against ACORN, the voter-registration group, back in 2006, and as a deputy head in the U.S. Civil Rights Division, still pursuing this type of thing, he lied to Congress about applying the law even-handedly. Patrick Leahy complained he added to a âcredibility crisisâ in the George W. Bush Justice Dept.
âBuild it and they will come.â
Right?
Canât let J. McChristian Adams go unmentioned.
Arghhhh. Another of the rogues gallery of whoâs who in the dubya nazi-zoo.
âŚdo they get the rest of Kobach as well, or is it donated to science? 
The same Bradley Schlozman that, ââŚkilled (an) investigation of Native American voter suppression in Minnesota: A U.S. attorney in Minnesota was alarmed that a GOP officialâs plan to bar certain uses of Tribal IDs for voter identification would result in electoral discrimination against Indian voters. When an investigation was recommended, Schlozman, advised ânot to do anything without his approvalâ because of the âspecial sensitivity of this matter,â effectively ending the investigation.â?
The same one that was spanked by a judge for fraudulent claims of voter fraud when "⌠a federal judge ruled that a lawsuit pushed by Schlozman against the Missouri Secretary of State showed âno evidenceâ voter fraud. âIt is also telling that the United States has not shown that any Missouri resident was denied his or her right to vote as a result of deficiencies alleged by the United States,â Judge Nanette Laughrey wrote. âNor has the United States shown that any voter fraud has occurred.â?
It sounds like he might have a racket very similar to Kobach - encourage localities to pass onerous restrictions under false pretenses, then sit back and reap the financial rewards through retainers and attorneyâs fees and while âfighting the good fightâ. And losing. With the taxpayer footing the bill for the whole, nefarious enterprise. Except for the âGoFundMeâ appeals, of course. He gets to keep those. He should feel right at home in Dodge City, from the looks of it.
Well when they win, and the County has to settle and pay the ACLUâs legal bills (another 100k+) the ACLU needs to demand as a condition of settling that they take an assignment of the claims the county has for malpractice and Fraud against Schloz. Then sue him for malpractice and fraud, which allows them to obtain all of his records (which are no longer protected) and go after him personallyâŚ
Frivolous? ACLU filings routinely meet with petitions to dismiss due to lack of merit, but then are allowed to proceed. This wouldnât be necessary if government subdivisions would simply follow the law.