January 10, 2020
NPR Thinks Republicans Have no Right to Try to Win Elections
Timothy Birdnow
Here is a story in NPR chronicling a deep, dark plot by those eeevil Republicans to gerrymander North Carolina.
Democrats just happened to get their claws on one of the chief strategists for the GOP's electronic gadgets, and found a vile plot to try to win elections.
From the article:
The question was if an alien was in fact a legal immigrant or not.
Oh the horror! A Republican lawyer thought it would benefit the party if illegal aliens were asked if they were here illegally - and thus discourage them from voting!
Well, if this benefits the GOP, who benefits from NOT asking the question? Anyone?
And then about gerrymandering districts, the article states:
Unfairly? Why does the judge think the Founding Fathers gave the power to control redistricting to the state governments in the first place? Why does it matter who wins control of the governorships and state houses? This was done precisely to give the winners of elcctions control of redistricting. The idea is it is an expression of the will of the People.
Who is opposing the will of the People? The COURTS, who are overturning one of the cornerstones of Federalism.
Gosh; he doesn't want incarcerated prisoners being used to reapportion districts, since they, uh, can't vote.
What a monster!
The sad thing is this information was stolen by his estranged daughter, who contacted the Leftist Common Cause upon her father's death.
These people are despicable, and I don't mean the Republicans.
Here is a story in NPR chronicling a deep, dark plot by those eeevil Republicans to gerrymander North Carolina.
Democrats just happened to get their claws on one of the chief strategists for the GOP's electronic gadgets, and found a vile plot to try to win elections.
From the article:
Other files have become intertwined in the federal lawsuits over the Trump administration's push to add the now-blocked citizenship question to the 2020 census, raising questions about Thomas Hofeller's role and the administration's true motives.
Lawyers with the law firm Arnold & Porter — which represented both Common Cause and some of the citizenship question's challengers — uncovered an unpublished study in which Thomas Hofeller concluded using responses from such a question would be "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites" when voting districts are redrawn. The revelation came weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in June, affirming a lower court's decision against the question, which has been permanently blocked from forms for the upcoming national head count.
Lawyers with the law firm Arnold & Porter — which represented both Common Cause and some of the citizenship question's challengers — uncovered an unpublished study in which Thomas Hofeller concluded using responses from such a question would be "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites" when voting districts are redrawn. The revelation came weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in June, affirming a lower court's decision against the question, which has been permanently blocked from forms for the upcoming national head count.
The question was if an alien was in fact a legal immigrant or not.
Oh the horror! A Republican lawyer thought it would benefit the party if illegal aliens were asked if they were here illegally - and thus discourage them from voting!
Well, if this benefits the GOP, who benefits from NOT asking the question? Anyone?
And then about gerrymandering districts, the article states:
In September, Common Cause won its legal challenge to political maps in
North Carolina, where a state court cited some of the files as evidence
of gerrymandering designed to unfairly give Republicans an advantage in
winning elections and maintaining control of the state legislature.
Unfairly? Why does the judge think the Founding Fathers gave the power to control redistricting to the state governments in the first place? Why does it matter who wins control of the governorships and state houses? This was done precisely to give the winners of elcctions control of redistricting. The idea is it is an expression of the will of the People.
Who is opposing the will of the People? The COURTS, who are overturning one of the cornerstones of Federalism.
Here's another horror coming from Hofeller:
In a Microsoft Word document last saved in 2015, Thomas Hofeller warned against changing the Census Bureau's policy of including prisoners in the population counts of the areas where they're incarcerated, expressing concern that "the actual effect on reapportionment and redistricting is not clearly known for individual states."
In a Microsoft Word document last saved in 2015, Thomas Hofeller warned against changing the Census Bureau's policy of including prisoners in the population counts of the areas where they're incarcerated, expressing concern that "the actual effect on reapportionment and redistricting is not clearly known for individual states."
Gosh; he doesn't want incarcerated prisoners being used to reapportion districts, since they, uh, can't vote.
What a monster!
The sad thing is this information was stolen by his estranged daughter, who contacted the Leftist Common Cause upon her father's death.
These people are despicable, and I don't mean the Republicans.
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