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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Saturday, October 30, 2004

Suppress the vote: S. Carolina

South Carolina is probably not going to decide the Presidential election this year, but Democrat Inez Tenenbaum has run an exceptional campaign for the Democrats in her Senate race against Jim DeMint. The latest polls show a race many thought would be an easy victory for the Republicans a toss up going into the final weekend. As always, it will come down to who can get their voters to the polls. Which is precisely why Republicans will stoop to any level to keep typical Democratic voters away:
A bogus letter circulating in South Carolina, purporting to be from the NAACP, threatens the arrest of voters who have outstanding parking tickets or failed to pay child support. The NAACP said Friday the letter is a scare tactic and called for an investigation.

"I'm outraged," said Jill Miller, director of the Charleston County Board of Election and Voter Registration. "This is so bogus."

The Rev. Joe Darby, vice president of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said he received the one-page letter -- which had a Columbia postmark with no return address -- at his Charleston home.


Is there no low they won't stoop to in order to win?