Doonesbury
A recent Doonesbury cartoon by Garry Trudeau shows Mark a “sympathetic” reporter interviewing Doug Chumley a Republican “consultant.”
Mark says: We’re back with Republican consultant Doug Chumley! Doug, is it fair to say that your brand is in trouble?
Chumley admits: Yes, but we’re fighting back, Mark by eliminating voter fraud! All over the country, Republican legislators are working tirelessly to create barriers at the polls! By mandating strict ID requirements, we can disenfranchise the poor, the infirm, students, minorities - anyone who can’t be counted on to vote responsibly!
Mark: So instead of making your tent bigger, the strategy now is to make the Democratic tent smaller?
Chumley: If we learned anything from Florida in 2000, it was that disenfranchisement works - That Republicans can win even if they lose!
Mark: So the new GOP is all about hope?
Chumley: Hope and change! Changing the rules, changing the subject - we’re change agent!
Disenfranchisement worked again in 2004. A Rolling Stones article entitled: “Was the 2004 Election Stolen?” by Robert Kennedy Jr. made a convincing argument that a Kerry victory in the 2004 presidential election was subverted by a far-reaching Republican strategy of fraud, vote suppression and other crimes against the democratic process. Kerry would have won Ohio if all of his votes had been counted, and if all of the eligible voters who tried to vote for him had been allowed to cast their ballots.
The efforts to disenfranchise Democratic voters in 2004, were headed by Ohio secretary of state J. Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican, who was both the chief election official in the state and co-chairman of the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign in Ohio.
Every foul-up and arbitrary new regulation, that occurred in Ohio in the election favored Bush. A range of problems and dirty tricks have come to light. Such as, the shortages of voting machines and the long lines with waits of seven hours or more occurred in urban areas and discouraged mostly Kerry voters.
“The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have democracy, second the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.” - Edward Dowling 1941
Mark says: We’re back with Republican consultant Doug Chumley! Doug, is it fair to say that your brand is in trouble?
Chumley admits: Yes, but we’re fighting back, Mark by eliminating voter fraud! All over the country, Republican legislators are working tirelessly to create barriers at the polls! By mandating strict ID requirements, we can disenfranchise the poor, the infirm, students, minorities - anyone who can’t be counted on to vote responsibly!
Mark: So instead of making your tent bigger, the strategy now is to make the Democratic tent smaller?
Chumley: If we learned anything from Florida in 2000, it was that disenfranchisement works - That Republicans can win even if they lose!
Mark: So the new GOP is all about hope?
Chumley: Hope and change! Changing the rules, changing the subject - we’re change agent!
Disenfranchisement worked again in 2004. A Rolling Stones article entitled: “Was the 2004 Election Stolen?” by Robert Kennedy Jr. made a convincing argument that a Kerry victory in the 2004 presidential election was subverted by a far-reaching Republican strategy of fraud, vote suppression and other crimes against the democratic process. Kerry would have won Ohio if all of his votes had been counted, and if all of the eligible voters who tried to vote for him had been allowed to cast their ballots.
The efforts to disenfranchise Democratic voters in 2004, were headed by Ohio secretary of state J. Kenneth Blackwell, a Republican, who was both the chief election official in the state and co-chairman of the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign in Ohio.
Every foul-up and arbitrary new regulation, that occurred in Ohio in the election favored Bush. A range of problems and dirty tricks have come to light. Such as, the shortages of voting machines and the long lines with waits of seven hours or more occurred in urban areas and discouraged mostly Kerry voters.
“The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have democracy, second the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.” - Edward Dowling 1941
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