Long-held suspicions that GOP statehouses were outsourcing the writing of restrictive voting laws to far-right activists were seemingly confirmed in a video obtained by Mother Jones via the watchdog group Documented.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1374044
They even cheat by plagiarism of their racism.
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“a conservative think based in D.C”
I’m glad you fucked that up. Please, for the love of all that is fucking holy, never refer to these conspiratorial cabals as “think tanks.”
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sniffit:
a conservative think based in D.C”
I’m glad you fucked that up. Please, for the love of all that is fucking holy, never refer to these conspiratorial cabals as “think tanks.”
They must have meant conservative “stink”.
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It works because the politicians they seek out are corrupt and lazy.
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Whatever happened to ALEC?
Added:
I thought they “helped” write Republican legislation.
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Yes, stink tank might work…
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tena
May 13, 2021, 10:20pm
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Well you don’t expect the GOP to actually write legislation do you?
That would interfere with their real work - talking batshit nonsense, owning the libs, going on Fox, raking in money, kissing the MFWWNBN’s ass…
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Heritage Action is a political PAC.
It is no way connected to any kind of thinking.
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lacis
May 13, 2021, 10:30pm
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Hans von Spakovsky, a "Heritage expert "
What exactly does that mean??!
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It means that Heritage is a laughable right-wing group of political misfits and professional assholes.
Hans Von Spakovsky is a well-known and widely-ridiculed right-wing operative who specializes in voter suppression and racist dog-whistles.
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mrf
May 13, 2021, 10:39pm
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Hans Von Spakovsky who sounds like the villain in a spy novel ought to be schooled by the good senator from Maine.
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chjim
May 13, 2021, 10:49pm
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Well, here in Arizona we know our legislators have to delegate the actual thinking and writing that goes into constructing legislation as they have all they can handle fraudstering over at the State Fair.
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“…the Heritage Foundation…”
I long ago figured out the word “Heritage” in any name was code for “deplorable pink racists” .
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I suppose this means those “very fine people” who carry tiki torches.
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And yet you still have Susan Collins. I’m skeptical.
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And their small minty cousin, Mojito.
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It means his doctoral robes are all white.
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