Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) shot out a snarky statement accusing the Warnock campaign of “muddying the water and pressuring counties to ignore Georgia law” just after the election official reversed himself on a critical day of early voting in the runoff.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Until he isn’t.
Hey Raffie: you may not be Dump himself, but less bad is still plenty bad.
Ratffensperger did one thing right and upheld the Constitution but that doesn’t make him a saint.
…did one thing right and upheld the Constitution but that doesn’t make him a saint.
Or, as the kids say, he did a Pence.
In public service, doing the right thing is a job requirement. It doesn’t give you a pass if you screw up something the next time.
“Not winning in the courthouse”- that’s rich after TrumptyDumpty tried to pressure you. What an asshat. Hey dipshit, without the courthouse back in the 50s and 60s neither candidate would even be in this place because of their skin, but I bet he would prefer that.
SoS and a host of other positions shouldn’t even be partisan because you get Bull Connor, Joe Arpaio, etc.
I don’t want the GA SoS to break the law. But you’d think the guy in charge of voting, if it was at all possible, would fall on the side of allowing more people to vote. You’d think . . . .
Raff wouldn’t even be thinking of Reverend Warnock if he didn’t think he was going to prevail.
@generalsternwood Only a Pence can do a Pence:
“They never gave any thought to the anxiety they were causing the American people, the damage they were doing to our institutions and the credibility of our elections.”
The “they” in this instance aren’t the right-wing rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, erecting a gallows and chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” Pence is referring here to “the collusion crowd,” which kept talking about Russian interference in the 2016 election — liberals like the MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow.
I guess somebody has to be in charge of projection.
In reading the article I had one question and that was “WHY” in regard to “State law bars them from offering voting the Saturday before the election;”
But then the article answered the question.
“Each day of early voting has taken on new importance since Republicans in the Georgia legislature last year passed a bundle of voter restrictions following the double-barrel Democratic Senate wins of Warnock and Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA). In that law, they hacked the runoff election calendar in half, along with giving voters much less time to request absentee ballots and slashing the number of available dropboxes.”
That is the answer to all these laws/restrictions on voting is the same, voter suppression.
The Party of Inarticulate Crazy People (PICP) has to do what they have to do to protect their own (until they officially lose and can be blamed for being inarticulate crazy people).
when Georgia formally celebrated Confederate general Robert E. Lee’s birthday.
What is it with Southern Republicans backing losers?
I’d think, given a predicted drop in enthusiasm among GOPers for this run-off (because control of the Senate is no longer available as a carrot), Raffensperger would be in favor of doing anything to help increase opportunities for them to vote, too.
And, yes, I know that’s (still) not the prevailing wisdom in that party. I’d just think they might want to give that kind of thinking a go this time around and see what happens.
… to be fair - he has generally refrained from being a complete total asshole - he has seemed to strive for objectivity (while still rooting for the GOP) - and this situation is a mess - heck, even he initially thought at least one Saturday of early voting would happen -
So it seems slightly (but only slightly) odd that he opts to be such a snarky jerk about this really really restrictive rule ( one that he initially viewed differently) -
BUT - THE ONE THING I KNOW - THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
Every Democrat, every independent, every Republican with an ounce of basic decency had better find their way to get their vote in - absentee, early voting , day-of election … come on Georgia!
Do not make a mockery of self-governing by placing a complete idiot in office.
I had the same response to the “Cheney for Speaker” nonsense
Advanced Voting cannot occur on Thursday, November 24th (Thanksgiving Day), Friday, November 25th (Observance of State Holiday 1), or Saturday, November 26th. Advanced Voting on Saturday, November 26th is prohibited by OCGA 21-2- 385(d)(1), which states that if the second Saturday before the runoff follows a Thursday or Friday that is a state holiday, voting on that Saturday is not allowed.
Why, that doesn’t seem surgically reverse-engineered to suppress the vote at all, by George! Raffensperger is a very honorable white man, and he just wouldn’t think of doing such a thing.
I have been trying since the '20 election for folks not to make Raffe a hero: he was an arch vote suppressor who used his office to tilt things for the GOP: and only improved when the Federal court said, in Stacey Abrams law suit, 1) Kemp engaged in massive abuse of striking legit voters from the rolls, 2) couldn’t prove he won a fair election, as the system wasn’t auditable, or transparent 3)and forced Georgia to have a good system.
When Don called, Raffensperger had no place to pull +11K votes from.
He has used his office and publicity shop of the office, to slam Abrams every chance he’s gotten, as an “election denier”, with much else.
He’s hard at work thinking up legal but abusive voter suppression schemes as we speak.
There are just so damn many laws that make no sense except that they were created to help or hurt this or that person, group, company or industry. I wish there were some reasonably easy to apply ground rules that prevented such abuse of the legislative process. But there are not, and even the best rule is open to be abused itself. Ultimately, the law, like democracy, is a mediated process in which the majority USUALLY gets things to go its way. But it does not self-mediate or constrain.
