McCrory: These million black people don't need a congressman cuz what's he gonna do anyway, vote?

[octoberlib]

So we all know that the GOP is trying really hard to keep ‘undesirables’ from voting — whether we are talking about youngsters, racial minorities, or anyone who might be too poor to afford proper ID. (Thanks, SCOTUS.) But North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory (R-1950s) has come up with a novel way to disenfranchise minorities: just deny them a member of Congress! BRILLIANT, right? Rather than all the effort of suppressing voters and costs associated with weeding out undesirables, why not just straight up deny a majority-minority district their member of Congress for a year?

McCrory is doing just that with the seat vacated by Rep. Mel Watt (D-NC), who resigned in early January to head up the Federal Housing Finance Agency. McCrory is working the system so that the seat won’t be filled until after the November election, and his reason is simple: Congress sucks anyway, so no worries. Oh yeah, that’s for real his answer, and we don’t even have a joke for it because HOLY FUCK that takes some balls. Some seriously racist, 1950s-era Jim Crow balls.

McCrory went on one of those teevee political talk shows to explain his totally sincere reasons for neglecting representation to a district that has an overwhelmingly majority of minority voters for virtually all of 2014. MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd asked the question of how a governor could disenfranchise people for an entire year.

Seriously, what kind of country would, as Chuck Todd says, “basically to disenfranchise nearly a million people, and not having representation in the U.S. House of Representatives, that’s — that is not a healthy thing. For a year. A whole calendar year…”



http://wonkette.com/539390/nc-gov-pat-mccrory-these-million-black-people-dont-need-a-congressman-because-whats-he-gonna-do-anyway-vote

[leanforward]

1. To me, we have 50 states, but only 49 have a Governor

This guy and his advisers are sick. Now I must invoke Mark Twain "never pass up an opportunity to keep my mouth shut".

[bpj62]

2. Shocked

I don't know which person I am more shocked about. McCrory and his lack of understanding of representative government, or Chuck Todd for actually asking a Tea bagger a question that required any thought.

[NCarolinawoman]

3. I agree with you.

I'm always kind of shocked how Mc outdoes himself, and Chuck Todd actually looked DISGUSTED with the guy.