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GOP SCUM! Virginia Republicans Give Blacks the Finger on MLK Day
2013 Jan 25, 2:48am 1,298 views 1 comment
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Dan8267
2013 Jan 25, 3:15am
Dan8267
2013 Jan 25, 3:15am
The solution is to ban those politicians who attempted this from ever holding office and refill their seats in 1 year after a replacement election. In the meantime, the seats are simply voteless and the politicians not participating in gerrymandering get to pass shitloads of legislation without opposition including "gun control" laws and other things that would piss off the opposing party.
Do this once, just fucking once, and no one will attempt such a stunt again ever.
The Virginia state senate is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, 20-20. Republicans really hate this, but what can they do? Answer: wait for a Democratic state senator to be absent and jam through a mid-decade redistricting plan that switches one seat from D to R by creating a new pack-and-crack majority black district just south of Richmond. The vote was 20-19.
But wait! That's not all. The deed was done on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and at the end of the session Republicans adjourned in memory of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, whose birthday is today.
Oh, and did I mention that the state senator who was absent is a veteran of the civil rights movement? And that he was in Washington to attend the inauguration of our country's first black president?
Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell, who has obvious presidential ambitions, said he was surprised by the move, but didn't denounce it and didn't promise to veto it. Quite the contrary: his spokesman said the governor would "review it in great detail" once the bill got to his desk.
It's truly a mystery why so few African-Americans support the Republican Party, isn't it? A real chin-stroker.
GOP SCUM !
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/01/virginia-republicans-give-blacks-finger-mlk-day
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