Showing posts with label Brian Kemp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brian Kemp. Show all posts

Saturday, November 17, 2018

Tweets Of The Day -- Georgia On Our Mind Edition







As a reference, here's how Georgia (and specifically Atlanta, the "Hollywood of the South") stacks up in terms of top 100 film productions as of last year:


People need to think hard about where they want to spend their money now, whether it's Georgia, Florida or any other vote suppressing state.

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Monday, November 5, 2018

Monday Pre-Election Reading


As always, please go to the links for the full articles/ op eds (and, if you haven't already, VOTE tomorrow!).

Francis Wilkinson writes about the pervasive racism in the Republican Party, and offers poll after poll illuminating how their base has shifted ever further into the dark recesses of racial resentment and ignorance.  Here's his conclusion:
Preservation of a racial hierarchy is the glue that holds much of the GOP’s rickety planks together. It’s the basis of Trump’s call to end birthright citizenship. [snip] 
The broader electorate may be ready to reject GOP control of at least the House on Tuesday. Perhaps that will deter Republicans from advancing their race war. But it’s possible that they’ve steeped in their resentments for too long, and traveled with Trump too far. They may not want to go back, or even know how to.  (our emphasis)
Republicans need to be defeated at all levels, over and over again.

Leonard Pitts, Jr., puts it bluntly:
... Tuesday is about what we do for ourselves, for our country. It is about whether those of us who see this madness for what it is acquiesce to it or whether, like the guy in Rockwell’s painting, we stand up and speak out. It shouldn’t be a hard choice. 
If you find this calamity unacceptable, make your case. 
If you think we should be better than this, raise your voice. 
If you are disgusted and appalled, make yourself heard. 
Because we could absolutely lose America. Or, we could save it. 
What do you say?

We say, Republicans need to be defeated at all levels, over and over again.

"Trump is on the ballot.  Vote accordingly."  ABC News:
President Donald Trump has repeatedly refused to accept any responsibility for inciting violence in American communities, dismissing critics who have pointed to his rhetoric as a potential source of inspiration for some citizens acting on bigoted beliefs. [snip] 
But a nationwide review conducted by ABC News has identified at least 17 criminal cases where Trump's name was invoked in direct connection with violent acts, threats of violence or allegations of assault. 
Nearly all -- 16 of 17 -- cases identified by ABC News are striking in that court documents and direct evidence reflect someone echoing presidential rhetoric, not protesting it. ABC News was unable to find any such case echoing presidential rhetoric when Barack Obama or George W. Bush were in the White House.  (our emphasis)
Republicans need to be defeated at all levels, over and over again.

Meanwhile, here's more on the vote- suppressing, racist über- Trumper running for governor of Georgia while simultaneously running the election there, Georgia Secretary of State Brian "No Show" Kemp, and his banana Republican last- minute effort to smear Democrats for his fraud- friendly voting system:
But the latest appalling move by Kemp to publicly accuse the Democrats of hacking without evidence is even worse than that: Kemp has been one of the few state election officials to refuse help from the federal Department of Homeland Security to deter foreign and domestic hacking of voter registration databases. After computer scientists demonstrated the insecurity of the state’s voting system, he was sued for having perhaps the most vulnerable election system in the country. His office has been plausibly accused of destroying evidence, which would have helped to prove the vulnerabilities of the state election system.  [snip]
 ... [The latest episode] shows Democrats, like many others, pointing out the glaring security flaws in Georgia’s voting system. To turn this around and blame Democrats is an act of political chutzpah by an election official on par with nothing else I’ve seen. 
It is bad enough there is a partisan election official running Georgia’s elections. It is also bad enough that this partisan election official is in charge of his very own election, an election where he is running in a very tight race against Democrat Stacey Abrams, and that he has engaged in acts of voters suppression aimed to decrease the turnout for the candidate who would be this nation’s first black woman to win a governor’s mansion. It is still worse that we have an election official who, according to audio leaked to Rolling Stone, expressed concern about the state’s citizens exercising their rights to vote via absentee ballot: “[Democrats] have just an unprecedented number of [absentee ballot applications],” he said, “which is something that continues to concern us, especially if everybody uses and exercises their right to vote—which they absolutely can—and mail those ballots in, we gotta have heavy turnout to offset that.” 
But what Kemp has done now goes beyond the pale. He’s accused his opponents of election tampering without evidence on the eve of the election, and plastered the incendiary charge on an official state website in the days before his office will administer that election. This is some banana republic stuff.  (our emphasis)
This speaks for us:


Republicans need to be defeated at all levels, especially this shitbag Kemp.

As always, we close with a recommendation to check out Infidel 753's link round- up for a great assortment of interesting political, social, universal, etc., topics.  A fine way to start the week.
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Sunday, November 4, 2018

Vote Suppressor Brian Kemp's Desperate Ploy



Following his Jim- Crow- style efforts to suppress the votes of Democratic- leaning constituencies, the ethically compromised Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brian "No Show" Kemp is making desperate claims about unspecified "cyber crimes" by Democrats:
The office of Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the state's Republican gubernatorial nominee, said Sunday it has opened an investigation into the state's Democratic Party for possible unspecified cybercrimes after an attempted hack of the state's voter registration system. 
"While we cannot comment on the specifics of an ongoing investigation, I can confirm that the Democratic Party of Georgia is under investigation for possible cyber crimes," Candice Broce, press secretary for Kemp's office, said in a statement. 
"We can also confirm that no personal data was breached and our system remains secure," she added. 
The announcement comes two days before Election Day, when Kemp faces Democrat Stacey Abrams in the governor's race. Kemp has rebuffed calls to resign his position as secretary of State while he campaigns, with critics citing conflicts of interest. 
Democratic Party of Georgia Executive Director Rebecca DeHart in a statement described the investigation as “yet another example of abuse of power by an unethical Secretary of State.”
This cracker clown is running the election in which he's a candidate for the highest office in the state of Georgia.  That seems right.

If you've been following this race, you know the momentum is moving toward Democratic nominee Stacy Abrams;  it's also a race that is statistically tied (though we suspect there are a lot of first time Democratic voters who aren't being captured by the polling).  If neither Kemp nor Abrams wins 50% of the vote on Tuesday, they will have a runoff election on December 4.

There are a number of likely, non-exclusive motives for Kemp to be introducing this red herring, including sheer desperation to counter the surge by Democrats in the past week or so (thank you, Oprah Winfrey!).  Another likelihood is Kemp, who as Secretary of State would have to certify the results of the election, is beginning to establish a pretext for asserting "voter fraud" or vote- rigging should he lose the election (or a runoff).  Desperate to hold onto power in a state that is inexorably changing demographically, Kemp and his fellow slimeball Republicans will resort to any means necessary, whether it's leveling ludicrous, last minute charges against Democrats, suppressing their right to vote or denying them legitimacy should they win.

Georgians, you know what to do with this banana Republican!

BONUS:  Here's Stacy Abrams' rebuttal --


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