Audio posted by Democratic group Battleground Texas on Tuesday has Ken Emanuelson, a leading state Tea Party figure, answering a question about black voters at a May 20 Dallas County GOP event.
“I’m going to be real honest with you,” Emanuelson said. “The Republican Party doesn’t want black people to vote if they are going to vote 9-to-1 for Democrats.”
Hey don't worry, later on he took it back.
Later on Tuesday, Emanuelson backtracked on his remarks, clarifying that it "was a mistake" and nothing more than a "personal opinion."
"I hold no position of authority within the Republican Party and it wasn’t my place to opine on behalf of the desires of the Republican Party," Emanuelson said, according to the Dallas Morning News. “What I meant, and should have said, is that it is not, in my personal opinion, in the interests of the Republican Party to spend its own time and energy working to generally increase the number of Democratic voters at the polls, and at this point in time, nine of every ten African American voters cast their votes for the Democratic Party."
Get it? This douchebag is not saying that the entire Republican party wants to keep blacks from voting, though they did everything in their power to restrict access in 2012, but just that he PERSONALLY does not see any reason to increase voting access to an ethnic group that will not vote for his party.
So when he said "I'm going to be real honest with you" he was lying. Or was that when he was telling the truth, and NOW he is lying.
So confusing.
Every once in a blue moon, they inadvertently blurt out the truth.
ReplyDeleteThe difference between "us" and this cretin and many in his party is that we want everybody to be able to vote----even wingnuts. It seems the GOP is constantly frightened by a true measure of their worth by the electorate.
ReplyDeleteThis is just such good news and this little boy is a real hero!
ReplyDeleteGay 11-Year-Old's Petition Against Homophobic Politician Succeeds
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/05/gay-11-year-old-petition-john-ragan-_n_3391599.html
I am Marcel Neergaard, and I am 11 years old. This year I was homeschooled for sixth grade because of severe bullying. If I had gone back to public school, there is a great possibility that I would have taken my own life. That possibility would have grown if a certain bill introduced in my home state of Tennessee had passed into law. This bill was known as the "don't say gay" bill. Though that bill never became a law, Oak Ridge's own representative, John Ragan, introduced a new version of the Classroom Protection Act. It is the "don't say gay" bill, just more homophobic. While he crafted this horrifying bill, he received an award. I wrote a petition to take a stand against this.
During my first year in middle school, I experienced severe bullying. I was called terrible names that were quite hurtful. At that time, I had just realized that I'm gay, and the bullies used the word "gay" as an insult. This made me feel like being gay was horrible, but my parents told me otherwise. Their support was tremendous. But as powerful as their love was, it couldn't fight off all the bullying. I don't want anyone else to feel the way I did. No one deserves that much pain, no matter who they are. This was my reason for writing the petition.
John Ragan's Classroom Protection Act will do harm to LGBT students across the state. It promotes a system that does not educate students about gays, because no one but counselors, nurses and principals can talk about being gay. This also means that if a student were to talk to a teacher about being bullied because he or she is gay or possibly gay, the teacher would be required to say something like, "That subject is inappropriate for your age group." If the student managed to find an "appropriate" person, that counselor, nurse or principal would have to tell the student's parents that their child may be gay. What happens if the family is homophobic? Even if the family is supportive, every student deserves the right to come out to family members when he or she wants.
I am against a man receiving an award for trying to destroy all safe places for LGBT students. John Ragan is receiving his honor from StudentsFirst, whose actions are contrary to their name. My petition asks StudentsFirst to rescind the award to John Ragan as educational "Reformer of the Year" and to start supporting Tennessee's Dignity for All Students Act. They could also support federal anti-bullying legislation like the Safe Schools Improvement Act and the Student Non-Discrimination Act. I know that Chris Sanders at the Tennessee Equality Project would be happy to work with StudentsFirst in creating effective anti-bullying laws.
WATCH:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcel-neergaard/taking-a-stand-against-anti-gay-bullying_b_3368922.html
Marcel Neergaard is a very intelligent and brave eleven-year old boy whose parents were forced to homeschool him because of “severe” anti-gay bullying fueled by Tennessee’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislation. Now he’s decided to speak out — and fight back.
DeleteThe language in the “Don’t Say Gay” bills, authored and repeatedly, annually introduced in the Senate by the infamous Senator Stacey Campfield, and in the House by Rep. John Ragan, is so severe that it would force any school official to “out” to their parents any student who discusses homosexuality, would require a teacher to hand any student who discusses homosexuality a referral to a mental health professional, and forbids the discussion of anything related to homosexuality, labeling it harmful to the health of students — among other perverse and dangerous requirements.
Marcel explains in this heart-warming and heart-breaking video and his Huffington Post op-ed:
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/bullied-gay-11-year-old-explains-how-dont-say-gay-bills-lead-him-to-consider-suicide/news/2013/06/04/68064
Never EVER trust anyone who uses these terms:
ReplyDelete"To be perfectly honest..." (so what you said before was all a lie?")
Anything that starts with "I'm going to be real honest with you..."
"Babe, if we don't have sex, my testicles will hurt"
"The check's in the mail"
There's another one that I can't remember, but I'm sure it'll come to me...
"Would I lie to you?"
DeleteCampfield sucks. As a state legislator and as a person in general. Ragan is his shadow. These are two of the many hateful bigots that represent the people of Tennessee, especially the rural, backwards-ass rednecks that don't have a pot to piss in but are still not willing to think for themselves and realize that it's 2013, and the rest of the country has passed them by. Poor and stupid or rich and corrupt are the only two types of persons who support the GOP in this state.
ReplyDeleteThis douche just proved one bad apple spoils the whole bunch. What IVE learned personally is there are many black people who voted for Obama because they feel he could get them jobs somehow. Those are direct quotes. AND there was that woman o ncamera who said she expected the govt to get her a job when she graduated.
ReplyDeleteTHIS is why democrats' talking points are HORRIBLE.. AND why Obama is a failure.
Obama is a failure because one woman said something stupid and entitled? (possibly, we have no context for this comment you're ranting about.)
DeleteYour racist remark about blacks voting for Obama because he'd get them jobs isn't a failure. Obama fixing the economy causes more people to get jobs. So unless they ALL said that they expected the government to hand them jobs, you're not really getting anywhere with your attempts to be a jackass.
Obama is a failure ?!?!?! You must only watch Fox News; try expanding your horizons.
DeleteI expect there are plenty of people who voted for Republicans because in 2008 (and 2010 and 2012) Republicans said they would create jobs.
DeleteNo jobs. Just obstruction for every single anything that might create a job.
So I guess if it's a white voting for a Republican because said Republican has promised him a job, it's OK ?
I expect the subtext is really blacks voted for Obama because he's black. Ignoring that there are some whites that voted for RMoney simply because he was white. Or a Republican.
The bottom line is in *this* country you can vote for whoever you want for whatever reason you want. If you're a patriotic American, you'd support that concept as it is in our Constitution.
And for all those African-Americans who were on the fence; this just swung them over to the Democrats side. Thank you very much.
ReplyDelete"I hold no position of authority within the Republican Party and it wasn’t my place to opine on behalf of the desires of the Republican Party,"-a statement probably verbatim from the e-mail sent by Priebus.....you know Reinhold....the subject line read.......achtung!
ReplyDeleteSo basically, if you're not going to vote Republican, we're going to do everything in our power to take away your right to vote.
ReplyDeleteNow *that* sounds like the Republican party.