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What an absolutely slimy move by the GOP. They’re 100% behind this. Assholes.
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“Concerned” in this context almost always means racist.
See Sam Alito’s membership in the “Concerned Alumni of Princeton” as an example. They were concerned about non-whites being admitted to the university.
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How, exactly, is this Pro Hagen? I see it the other way…calling out the opportunity to impeach.
Besides, if it really was intended to be pro Hagen would it have it’s distribution started in a Southern Baptist church?
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The “CCC” sounds an awful lot like the “KKK.”
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It’s probably their grade school affiliate.
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“I think it’s unfortunate to use this kind of emotion as a means to getting people out to vote. It’s bad information,” Cumberland County Republican Party Chairwoman Linda Devore said.
Oh please. Like members of the GOP don’t engage in using “this kind of emotion” when running ads against the Democrats. Spare me the sanctimonious bullshit.
That said, I don’t care for using these types of imagery. It’s bad form. I don’t know or care who this group is, it’s tacky.
But they are right; if the Dems lose the Senate, GOP will move to impeach.
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…and the GOP will forever be known as the party who impeaches for no good reason other than they can.
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Seriously. Just read it literally: exclamation point celebrating Hagan not winning…exclamation point celebrating impeachment beginning…lynching pictures to show their racist intent. Boom.
However, that church appears to be a predominantly black church, so who fucking knows.
$10 says nobody from this outside group comes out from under their rock to take credit and explain themselves.
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Same type of ad worked for Jesse Helms. Doubtful if it will work now. The demographics in North Carolina have changed.
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They may have just graduated.
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I went to the church’s web site – the pictures there make it pretty clear this is a black church, so pro-Hagan flyers would have made sense, if that’s actually what they were. But yeah, I’m wondering if the purpose wasn’t actually to anger African-Americans over the use of lynching images and try to turn them against Hagan. I don’t think that is going to work.
Post hoc: And apparently this story appeared in the Daily Caller, which in itself is suspicious.
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You noticed that, too, huh?
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I assume you have proof of that.
The whole thing reeks of reverse psychology to me. Plus the thought of a black church being associated in any way with images of a lynching? Way over the top!
This flyer was in no way meant to support Hagen.
It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out in the black community though. And it would not be the first time that ignorant GOTPers have done that which shoots them in the foot.
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Let the Republican Dirty Tricks commence now that there is not enough time before the election to track down who is doing it.
More proof that we are winning.
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Lee Atwater tactics still live. Lousy
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Hmmm. Googling “Concerned Citizens of Cumberland County” turns up mostly just articles about this flyer, but Google does have an image of a newspaper article in the Wilmington Morning Star dated June 30, 1995 and datelined “Fayetteville,” but that’s so long ago that I rather doubt it’s the same group.
Post hoc: OK a little more about this group from another article from the 1990s, this one from the fayobserver.com web site and dated July 6, 1996. It’s about candidates for the Cumberland County Board of Education, one of whom was Rev. Curtis Worthy of 6320 Lynette Circle, and it ties him to the issue referenced in the 1995 article. From the article:
Worthy, 48, helped organize Concerned Citizens of Cumberland County, a group that opposed the school board’s decision to reject Dallas Freeman for principal at Seventy-First High School. Members of the group said Freeman, principal of Fairmont High School in Robeson County, was turned down for the Seventy-First job because he is black.
OK, TPM, if you want an investigative reporting assignment, see if you can contact this guy and see what he has to say about this flyer. Is it actually his group that is behind it, or is someone just trying to make it look that way?
Here’s the bio of what looks like the same guy from votesmart.org:
Personal
Full Name:
Curtis Worthy
Family:
Wife: Janice; 3 Children: Jan, Jill, Curtis II
Birth Date:
06/04/1947
Birth Place:
Fayetteville, NC
Home City:
Fayetteville, NC
Religion:
Baptist
Education
BS, Fayetteville State University, 1978
Political Experience
Councilman, City Council District 7, District 7, 1998-present
Candidate, North Carolina State Senate, District 21, 2012
Candidate, North Carolina State Senate, District 21, 2010
Candidate, North Carolina State Senate, District 21, 2006
Member, Cumberland County Board of Education, 1995
Caucuses/Non-Legislative Committees
President, Saint Charles Investment Group, present
Professional Experience
Auditor, Internal Revenue Service, 1978
NIGR, Providence Finance Company, 1971
Deputy Sheriff, Cumberland County, 1969
Soldier, US Army, 1966
Religious, Civic, and other Memberships
Lifetime Member, NAACP, present
Member, National League of Cities Crime and Safety Committee, present
Member, National Society of Accounts, present
Member, N.C. Society of Accounts, present
Mason-PM, Past Master Eureka 3, present
No contact information on that page. But some enterprising reporter needs to try to find him and ask about this flyer, and find out whether this is perhaps a false flag operation.
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