Steve King Comes Out Against Racially Charged DOJ Decision
ByThe DOJ has now decided it is far more intelligent than any black voter, in it’s latest racially and politically motivated decision to overstep local decisions to do away with party affiliation of candidates. Many local and federal politicians “…would like the city to challenge the decision in court. They say voter apathy is the largest barrier to black voters’ election of candidates they prefer and that the Justice Department has gone too far in trying to influence election results here.” As seen in the Washington Times article.
Iowa Congressman Steve King, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, responded yesterday to a recent Department of Justice decision overruling a 2008 ballot
initiative in Kinston, NC which eliminated party affiliation of candidates in local elections and was supported overwhelmingly by local voters. According to the Washington Times, “The Justice Department’s ruling, which affects races for City Council and mayor, went so far as to say partisan elections are needed so that black voters can elect their ‘candidates of choice’ – identified by the department as those who are Democrats and almost exclusively black.”
King stated the following:
“Martin Luther King Jr. longed for a day ‘when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.’ King and centuries of abolitionists dreamed of a time when men and women of all races could vote and equally participate in society irrespective of skin color or ethnicity. This DOJ decision sets in reverse everything these heroes worked for.
“The DOJ has no business overruling a local election and should not be putting an emphasis on race. The DOJ is essentially insulting African-American voters by saying that they are not smart enough to vote for candidates that do not have a D by their names. Attorney General Holder has again politicized the Department of Justice by prohibiting Kinston, NC from holding nonpartisan elections. We saw the same racial bias in the dismissal of the New Black Panther case of voter intimidation.
“Elections in the United States should be about policy and ideas, not about the race of the candidates or voters.”
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Onlyy two types of people will vote Demogogue in the 2010 election.
Lawyers, and fools.
Oh, and some will think it will be better with the republican potty. Nope.
I clicked on the article because I thought it was a whole different Steve King.
While I personally prefer party labels on my ballots, I don’t want the feds muscling in on the decision, and anyone who is too dumb to find out the party of his candidates before election day should maybe do us all a favor and not vote.
Or people who have to be bussed in, or chased down. Maybe people who are too damn lazy to vote, likely have a probelem getting to ……………………………WORK.
Sorry, stupid is as stupid does. Labels are easy to paste on see through packages.