Kobach’s racist views are a core belief of the mainstream in the Republican Party!
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“the most racist politician in America”
Maybe, but I think he’s not the worst. Lots of other bush league republicans out there.
He’s actually pretty bad. He is the father of voter suppression and the author of Arizona’s draconian immigration policy
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At least Kobach is out where we can see him. More insidious are the ones we can’t see. Lifting the lid on Ferguson is the beginning of something, I hope.
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Kobach stood by his remarks on Thursday, saying that while he doesn’t expect black citizens to be granted blanket immunity from prosecution, the Obama administration “has already done what the caller suggests in the context of voting civil rights statutes.”
What in Hades is he even talking about? What violations of voting civil rights statute does he think black people are committing that they are not being prosecuted for? Unless he is thinking of former Ohio Secretary of State (Republican) Ken Blackwell? But it was the Bush Administration that didn’t raise an eyebrow about Blackwell. But I guess that was Obama’s fault, too.
A recent study by the Brennan Center estimates that new voter ID laws could disenfranchise more than five million people across the country in November, including voters in swing states such as Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Virginia and Wisconsin. On Monday, Democracy Now! producer Mike Burke spoke with a prominent supporter of the new voter IDs laws, Ken Blackwell, vice chair of the Republican National Committee’s platform committee and the former Republican secretary of state in Ohio.
In [2004], Blackwell oversaw the election process for Ohio while serving as state co-chair of the committee to re-elect George W. Bush. His role in the Ohio election, which saw George W. Bush narrowly beat John Kerry, remains controversial to this day, making him the target of over a dozen lawsuits.
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/8/28/ex_ohio_secretary_of_state_ken
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Kansas? Not really. Brown was born in Connecticut and grew up in Ohio. A few years after he was married, he moved to Pennsylvania, where he operated a tannery (and also raised cattle and worked as a surveyor). He eventually moved back to Ohio, then to Springfield, Mass., which is where he developed strong ties to the abolition movement. In 1845, he established a homestead near Lake Placid, New York, which is where he is buried.
He didn’t end up in Kansas until 1855, after some of his sons who had settled there reported to him that anti-slavery settlers were unprepared to face attacks from militants who supported slavery. Kansas didn’t so much give us John Brown as they had him (and the whole bloody pre-Civil War slavery battles) inflicted upon them.
Right. He was the part of the free stater wave funded by Massachusetts abolitionists to settle in Kansas. He left Kansas a wanted man but it was his last official residence.
Top Kansas Dem: Kris Kobach Is ‘The Most Racist Politician In America Today’
But then, we knew that. Surprised his middle name doesn’t start with K, too.
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Well it is Kris Kobach from Kansas. Close enough.
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With Giuliani and Chris McDaniel on that list, this is no small feat.
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I think the lot of us Democrats are way to timid when it comes to standing with our compatriots. When a statewide elected official can seriously - without true disagreement from any network news reporters- act like there is something systemically wrong with a couple of black dudes hanging out in front of the polls and being esentiallly themselves, but (for shame) NOT be charged with a civil rights violation for it because of obvious intervention of the non-white President, and using that as proof that the President may at any moment unsurprisingly permit and thereby welcome crime and lawlessness by all black people- this is still Koblachs basically unchallenged assertion- we are in a pretty racist country.
What would those New Black Panther guys be charged with? Violating the rights of white people to be afraid of black people? God letting them get away with that that would be the same as wanting Black people to go unpunished for rape and murder!
Words of wisdom for sure.
Who?
Giuliani is a private citizen and, while Chris McDaniel is no treat, I can’t recall any statement of his that ranks with Kobach’s claim that Obama won’t prosecute black criminals.
How does any politician get a free hour of radio time every week without the station also giving a free hour to the other side? Time to bring back the equal time doctrine.
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Kansan Kris Kobach. FIFY
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Kobach’s true colors are showing now that he feels safely entrenched. But not to worry… some wild-eyed tea mob candidate for President is going to tap Kris as their VP candidate, and his ego won’t be able to say no, even though it will relegate him to permanent extremist stature, where he belongs.
He’ll be on Walker’s short list, and probably considered on more than a few others, because the wild-eyed right loves his bigoted legislation so dearly.
Just how long it takes for Kobach to start his journeyman voter suppression expert rounds again is also a guess, but no doubt the taxpayers of Kansas will be paying for his travel and his time away from home.
But, considering how non-existent voter fraud really is in Kansas, he really doesn’t have much to do here.
He should have no Kansas distractions when he gets back into national wingnut celebrity mode. If you can’t find a way to write your wingnut local laws so the state legislature will pass them, just give Kris a call. He knows how to make evil sound rosy.
Being afraid of black people is not a right. There are plenty of white people who cling to the notion that the constitution protects them from what they fear and do not understand. Fear is their cultural norm. If they were not afraid, they would have no feeling at all.
May I suggest a mandatory hatchet fight in place of the evening gown competition?