Oppose Him, But Ashcroft Is No Racist
Thursday, January 11, 2001 ; Page A27
In his column in today's Washington Post Richard Mr. Cohen says:
"But Waters is typical of certain black politicians -- and their non-black allies - who casually yell racism when, in fact, other factors are operative " We saw a recent example of that when Jesse Jackson roared into Florida to charge that blacks were singled out for disenfranchisement. In fact, it seems they lived in poor counties where voting was even more chaotic than is usual in Florida. This is not racism as we understand it -- not the racism that used to be the practice in Florida."
What Mr. Cohen fails to mention was that many voters in Florida were purged from the State's roster, and the contractor that purged the voter list was, according to SI's THIRD EYE, Database Technologies, a Texas company whose CEO made a $100k contribution to the Republican National Committee. I understand that many of those purged from the voter's list were minorities. Was it discrimination? Or was this a sure-fire method to get Mr. Bush elected as President?
I found information about the purged voter's list on the Jim Lehrer's News Hour. The following is an excerpt. MEPHISTO
KWAME HOLMAN: One of the most substantial charges regarding the Florida vote involved a purge of voter rolls…………..
SPOKESPERSON: Unfortunately, the information's coming out now that there were literally thousands of people whose names were purged from the voter registration roles who had no felony convictions, who had never moved, just faulty information coming from that contractor.
KWAME HOLMAN: Alison Bethel is director of civil rights for the Florida attorney general's office. She acknowledges the voting list purge may have deleted valid voter names from the rolls.
ALISON BETHEL: Well, we have received reports from people claiming that they were incorrectly advised, that they were a convicted felon. Some received letters prior to the election, others did not learn that they were so incorrectly listed until they showed up at the polls to vote. And apparently the company that provided the information to the state officials of who was and who was not a convicted felon, that information was flawed and that's what led to the problem. It's wrong and yes, it impacted the minority community in a disproportionate way.
Excerpt from:
VOTING RIGHTS from JIM LEHRER News Hour
December 15, 2000 pbs.org
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From: Impeach George Bush Thread
To: Mephisto who wrote (943)
From: ThirdEye
Dec 28, 2000 1:26 PM
Respond to Post # 963 of 1183
just faulty information coming from that contractor.
"that contractor" was Database Technologies, a Texas company whose CEO made a $100k contribution
to the Republican NationalCommittee.
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