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Re: Chaplin and son in "A King in New York"
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Friday, September 25 2015, 22:03:48 (UTC)
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Agreed. The only way that God's Oligarchic Party (GOP) can win elections is through the politics of fear: "the Russians are coming!... the Mexicans are here!... the Chinese are near by!... the Muslims are a fifth column!". And, of course, gerrymandering. A stupid Republican woman candidate was recorded at a gathering saying that she will win against her black Democratic opponent in Florida through redistricting:

(This is from the U.S. party of Jeeezus):

TALLAHASSEE — In a private gathering during last month’s Republican Party of Florida quarterly meeting, state Rep. Janet Adkins told a group of North Florida GOP activists that the key to defeating Corrine Brown, a black Jacksonville Democrat, is boosting the number of black prisoners in her district.

“You draw [Brown's seat] in such a fashion so perhaps, a majority, or maybe not a majority, but a number of them will live in the prisons, thereby not being able to vote,” said Adkins, a Nassau County Republican, referring to black residents.

Those comments came during a closed-door meeting of the North Florida Republican caucus. POLITICO Florida obtained audio of her comments.

She called it the “perfect storm” for being able to defeat Brown, a liberal firebrand who has been in Congress for 23 years.

Her comments came after making sure no reporters were in the room.

“Let me give you inside ball game. Are there any reporters in here?” she said. “Any reporters? OK. So, inside ball game.”

Adkins directly addressed Danny Norton, the state GOP committeeman from Baker County, which includes a large prison population.

“You can actually, Danny, you — you can be the person that will help get rid of Corrine Brown,” she said.

Under proposed redrawings of the state congressional lines passed by the House and Senate and being considered by the courts, Brown’s 5th Congressional District would include all of the rural North Florida county.

When POLITICO Florida asked Adkins about the comments Tuesday, she originally said that she is not on the redistricting committee and “focused on education.”

“I was having a private conversation,” she said.

When reminded she gave a detailed update to the room of GOP activists at the quarterly meeting, indicating she was familiar with the issue, she spoke briefly about redistricting.

“I don’t think there is any question that the Congresswoman Brown is displeased with the east-west configuration,” she said. “That has pretty much been reported.”

Adkins said that because she is not on the House redistricting committee, she only knows what has been reported in the media.

On maps passed by both the House and Senate during an August redistricting special session, lawmakers redrew Brown’s seat to stretch west from Jacksonville to the Tallahassee region. It currently winds from Jacksonville to Orlando and is considered one of the most gerrymandered seats in the country.

Brown's seat on the maps passed by lawmakers was drawn by legislative staff without the input of any elected officials or outside parties. No one during the two-week legislative session argued that Brown's seat was drawn intentionally to include additional prisoners.

For years Democrats have charged that Republicans “pack” Democrats in Brown’s snake-like seat to make surrounding seats more Republican-leaning. For that reason, Brown often sides with Republicans on redistricting issues, including opposition to anti-gerrymandering amendments passed in 2010.

Brown opposes the proposed east-west configuration because it would drop her seat’s black voting age population from 50 to 45 percent. During the August special redistricting session called because the Florida Supreme Court ruled the current maps violated the anti-gerrymandering provisions, Brown told the Senate Redistricting Committee she was also specifically concerned about the proposed seat’s prison population.

“They knew it was a non-performing district, they knew it had 18 prisons in that district,” Brown told the Senate Redistricting Committee during the special session, referring to those who drew her district.

Though they can’t vote, prisoners are counted as part of a congressional district's overall population and demographics, including race. Brown’s seat was drawn in 1992 by a federal court as a seat that allows black voters to elect a candidate of their choosing.

Even under the east-west configuration, the map is still likely to allow black voters to elect a candidate of their choosing. During the past two elections, black voters comprised more than 60 percent of the Democratic primary electorate. President Barack Obama won the proposed new seat with 63 percent of the vote, meaning the winner of the Democratic primary has a very good chance of winning the seat.

Brown and her supporters argue not only would her proposed seat lower her black voting age population, but it further chips away at black voting performance.

“You count them [prisoners],” she told the Senate committee in August. “And in Florida, if you’re a felon you can’t vote.”

It’s the same rationale used by Republicans who want to defeat Brown, including Adkins, who is term-limited from the House and now running for Nassau County superintendent.

“You take a look at how many minorities are in the prisons within that newly drawn proposed Congressional District 5, how many of them live in the prisons,” Adkins said to the North Florida activists. “That is why Corrine Brown is so against an east-west. ... Her concern is they live in prisons and can’t vote.”

During the meeting, Union County GOP chairman Mike Rich opened a redistricting question to Adkins by calling provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that require seats drawn to allow minorities to elect candidates of their choosing a “monster.”

“Why do we have such a monster in our political correctness where we’ve got to have a minority person and we’ve got to build a congressional seat so she can get re-elected?” he asked.

Doug Adkins, Janet Adkins' husband and a Nassau County GOP state committeeman, quickly answered, “There is no question everyone agrees with you,” before handing the question off to his wife.

“The short answer is the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” said Janet Adkins, who did not directly address the term “monster” or the underlying criticism of the provision. “Some areas you have to designate as minority access.”

Referring to her apparent criticism of the Voting Rights Acts in an interview with POLITICO Florida, Janet Adkins said she "has never referred to it in that way.”

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/florida/2015/09/8577571/republican-lawmaker-says-inmates-key-defeating-corrine-brown



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