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July 23, 2022

Louisiana Democrat's new ad has abortion scenes the GOP doesn't want you to see

This ad is very effective
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1550903637408374785
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/gary-chambers-abortion-ad-rcna38871?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

Chambers' latest ad, released Monday, shows the brutality and desperation set in motion by Republican-backed abortion bans in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. It includes a dramatization of a woman receiving an unsafe abortion in a hotel room and cites data showing countries with the most stringent abortion laws have the highest rates of abortion.

“The government, comprised of mostly white men, has no place to decide for women what is right for them,” Chambers says in the ad.

He later takes a swipe at the GOP’s “pro-life” claim, the term adopted by abortion opponents to sanitize their oppressive views.

“Abortions won’t end, but this democracy will if the government refuses to stay out of people’s personal choices,” Chambers says in the ad. “Make no mistake: women will die. And there’s nothing pro-life about that.”


https://twitter.com/GaryChambersJr/status/1548986844616036353
July 23, 2022

Louisiana Democrat's new ad has abortion scenes the GOP doesn't want you to see

This ad is very effective
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1550903637408374785
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/gary-chambers-abortion-ad-rcna38871?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

Chambers' latest ad, released Monday, shows the brutality and desperation set in motion by Republican-backed abortion bans in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. It includes a dramatization of a woman receiving an unsafe abortion in a hotel room and cites data showing countries with the most stringent abortion laws have the highest rates of abortion.

“The government, comprised of mostly white men, has no place to decide for women what is right for them,” Chambers says in the ad.

He later takes a swipe at the GOP’s “pro-life” claim, the term adopted by abortion opponents to sanitize their oppressive views.

“Abortions won’t end, but this democracy will if the government refuses to stay out of people’s personal choices,” Chambers says in the ad. “Make no mistake: women will die. And there’s nothing pro-life about that.”


July 23, 2022

Barr's election 'integrity' group has an obviously sinister goal

The GOP is the party of voter suppression
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1550663837451436033
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/barr-election-group-karl-rove-rcna39546

A bunch of well-heeled archconservatives launched a legal group Thursday with plans to pursue voter suppression measures — disguised as so-called election integrity laws — in states across the country.

The group, called Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections, was co-founded by some familiar names, including former Attorney General William Barr; Karl Rove, who was a top adviser to former President George W. Bush; and Steve Wynn, a Las Vegas hotel magnate accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct. (Wynn, the group’s finance chair, has denied the allegations.)

Think of it like a low-rent version of “The Expendables,” but the old white guys are somehow even older and obsessed with stopping people (disproportionately nonwhite people) from voting. Another one of the founders, right-wing lawyer Bobby Burchfield, told Reuters, “We do not think the courts should be setting the rules for elections. We believe that’s the province of state legislatures.”

If you’re well-versed in GOP speak, you know that translates to, “We think states should be allowed to pass oppressive anti-voting laws at will.” And it would make sense that some members of the group would be keen on defending states’ rights to pass such laws. Both Barr and Rove have been accused of unethical election meddling.

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