Looks like State Senator David Blount (D-Mount Olympus) deigned to weigh in on the Senate race with this tweet:
David Blount @SenDavidBlount ·
@samrhall Some in GOP expand usual voter suppression effort to GOP primary voters.
Oh really? Well, Mr. Blount, where were you last year when Robert Graham and Kenneth Stokes did engage in some voter suppression? I can understand you trying to forget about that little bit of controversy but allow me to refresh your memory.
Robert Graham and Kenneth Stokes tried to prevent your party from having a primary last year for Districts 2 and 4 supervisors. They claimed no money. Election Commissioner Connie Cochran found money in her budget and told the Board it was available. Graham, Hunter, and Stokes then wouldn't fund a primary as required by law. They refused to do so until the Attorney General told them they had to do it.
Somehow, you said nothing about this even though it was your voters who were being disenfranchised. Funny. Sam Begley, Jacquie Amos, Ricky Cole, Claude McGinnis, and even Dorothy Benford stood against this madness. The Hinds County Democratic Executive Committee. Maybe this post and these videos can refresh your memory.
Somehow, you said nothing about this even though it was your voters who were being disenfranchised. Funny. Sam Begley, Jacquie Amos, Ricky Cole, Claude McGinnis, and even Dorothy Benford stood against this madness. The Hinds County Democratic Executive Committee. Maybe this post and these videos can refresh your memory.
Then there is the fact that 30% of the voters in Hinds County are white. Over 50% of the voters in District 4 are white. So what did the Hinds County Board of Supervisors do in replacing Phil Fisher? Appoint a supervisor who was black, giving the board five black supervisors despite the fact that 30% of the county is white and one district is majority white. Did I mention Mr. Blount represents a large part of District 4?
One can only imagine the outrage and Eric Holder legions that would descend on Hinds County if the reverse took place. The fact of the matter is, when all of this voter suppression and disenfranchisement occurred, Mr. Blount, you said absolutely nothing when other Democrats did take a stand.
Mr. Blount is fine with voter suppression as long as it is practiced by Democrats as he only calls it out when he thinks he sees it practiced by Republicans. When it came time to put up or shut up when his voters were affected last year, Mr. Blount shut up. Last year showed Mr. Blount's true colors: Yellow. The color of a political and moral coward.
That, my friends, is the bottom line.
That, my friends, is the bottom line.
16 comments:
Bazinga!
So " the other guys do it too" makes it ok?
So much for the high road...everybody is on the low road.
To 9:37, there is a huge difference between no having an election (a true suppression of voting) and the allegation of voter suppression.
Everyone I know that is sitting on the sidelines is doing so not because their vote is being suppressed, rather it is because both candidates are so distasteful.
I'm not voting for Cochran, but I don't want to vote for McDaniel either. Can we find a write-in candidate?
No one has tried to suppress my vote.
Also of note is Blount's Senate district which is contorted and gerrymandered so that large areas of Hinds County, including vast portions of predominantly Republican Clinton, are represented by a white Democrat elitist who lives far removed from those areas in Belhaven.
Mississippi is 37% black. Would you also argue that black Mississippians are not properly represented - I'm assuming that's what you're getting at in referencing the Hinds BOS - since their are no black officials elected to statewide office?
batta-boom to you Mr. Blount! I am not sure that I have seen someone have their ass handed to them is such fine fashion before!
You're comparing apples and oranges, 10:27 AM (2nd poster). KF is referring to representatives of districts within a county, as opposed to statewide officeholders who represent an entire state. In other words, it would more accurate to compare how many blacks are elected to the Legislature, which I think you will find is very nearly representative of the state's demographics. As to why we don't have any blacks in statewide office - blacks support Democrats 95%-98% in a state that is largely Republican. Given how weak and feckless Mississippi's Democratic Party is anyway, it's difficult to get any Democrat - black or otherwise - elected statewide. And the blacks that have run left much to be desired even for hardcore Democrats.
12:21 - Fixed:
"As to why we don't have many blacks in statewide office -"
Don't forget Bennie
@ 1:06 pm - Thompson's a US Representative (Congress) of a district, not a statewide (of Mississippi) office holder (e.g., Gov, Lt. Gov, SoS, Treasurer, etc.)
Nice try though.
Bennie wasn't elected statewide 1:06. He was elected by the voters in his congressional district. Go back to civics class.
12:21 here. I can't speak for KF, but I have no problem with a black or female rep for my district, except in this case it was obviously a power grab by Kenneth ("we don't want a white mayor") Stokes and Robert ("double dip") Graham who wanted to turn the board into one that would rubber stamp their agenda. That is not what representative government is about. In some ways that kind of backroom political manipulation is what we are witnessing in the Cochran/McDaniel election.
Bottom line, when anyone or a talking head say that Mississippi is f'ed up. Well, it is, and the last 3 weeks prove that neither political party really gives a damn about fixing it.
1:42 PM You left something out of your post on Bennie being elected in his district. What you left out was
his GERRYMANDERED district. The district was laid out to systematically miss any significant numbers of white voters. If the reverse were true Obama and Holder would be sending droves of federal lawyers to Mississippi to right this terrible wrong of diluting an ethnic group's voter strength.
1027-what percent is hispanic? Indian? Just curious?
It is sad to say but many blacks elect blacks because of their color and not their qualifications as do many whites. Not meant to be negative, it's just true.
9:28 > Bennie has a lot of white supporters in the Madison County rural area. I will not say anymore 'cuz I'm not one to gossip.
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