Clay Bennett for March 27, 2021

RNC lawyers have already told judges that if they allowed unrestricted voting they republicans would lose.

Just when you thought the GOP couldn’t get any more obvious about their motives.

Playing right into Putin’s grubby little hands.

They are saving those poor people the hassle of having to wait in line to vote by telling them not to bother.

He looks so proud, just like Nazis when they would take pics with those they murdered.

I would certainly hope that their stupid, evil law to deprive the intelligent people (Democrats) of their voting rights will not be upheld in the courts. This is totally against what we say we stand for as a country!

25 MAR 2021 will become another “day of infamy!!” Thank you Gov Kemp!! Your name will be now enshrined in the history books – forever!!

We really do NEED a new voting rights act. And thus, we really do NEED a new filibuster rule. Which we really don’t seem to be able to do…

If you don’t have vision, ethics, honor, or policies the majority likes, then you change the laws so they can’t vote. Why try to change the party?

The wet dream of the Party Of Trump.

Could the Gobbledygook GOP get any more blatantly stupid? They never cease to amaze what desperate measures they take for fear of losing…the never have anything…no plan A or no plan B! All they do is STALL, LIE, INVESTIGATE, DECEIVE, DEFLECT!

While Georgia is reeling from a massive tornado with loss of souls, Kemp pulls this stunt!!

HOW QUAINT!!

This is the QOP’s swan song. We know they’re dead, THEY know they’re dead, all that needs to follow is the burial. Illegal laws or not, the voters will make the effort needed to sink them once and for all. Darwin said it best – Adapt or Die. The QOP has made their choice.

North Carolina passed anti-LBGTQ legislation a few years ago. The NCAA pulled its championship game from the state. Companies cancelled conventions. NC caved a bit and modified the laws. After Arizona refused to recognize MLK Day, the NFL moved a Super Bowl from the state. Major League Baseball is already considering moving its All-Star game out of Atlanta this summer. These and other pressures needs to be applied to all those states passing these measures.

The two-prong upside to Kemp’s rubber-stamping the GOP Leadershit’s Voter-Repression bill into law confirms (1) that Kemp’s happily assuming the BOHICA stance will not get him a chapter in any subsequent edition of “Profiles in Courage” and (2) that the shamelessness of the Voter Repression bill’s supporters is part and parcel of the last-ditch throes of a Quislingesque Fifth Column of dim-witted, ignorant, gullible racists, narcissists, jingoists, chauvinists, and nativists circling the gurgler.

I was very proud of the people of GA for coming out for Biden, then for Ossoff and Warnock. Now I am very disappointed with our representatives for this abominable law. The renewed Voting Rights legislation needs to be passed ASAP. Kill the filibuster if necessary to make the Senate really democratic. Shrinking minority parties need to be respected but not elevated. Maybe it’s time to reconsider how to make representation of states more proportional. Maybe we need to elevate HR to 4yr terms. Too much dysfunction.

Folks – this is why people of good will MUST vote in EVERY election at EVERY level in EVERY state. Gerrymandering, voter suppression, outright racism – 100 years later, we’re back in the regime of Jim Crow.

Page 17 of this report has 3 pie charts that illustrate the desperation of the current legislation to try to prevent the inevitable demographic change from happening and affecting election results … fear of the future [loss of control] is a powerful motivator.

https://gta.georgia.gov/sites/gta.georgia.gov/files/related_files/site_page/Changing%20Demographics%20of%20Georgia,%20Matt%20Hauer.pdf

The current generation has forgotten the Jim Crow era.. time for a new moniker and Brian Kemp has a nice ring to it

Traitors and thieves.

These idiots don’t know what they are doing. They will be lucky to not be “Mussolinied.”

next step; you must be a card carrying republican in order to vote, and you must use one of our pre-filled ballots.

The American experiment of Democracy is on it’s last legs.

The true Republican party has left the room!

If they allow cheating, Republicans will lose!

Man, I hate them all!

The stunts Brian Kemp pulled, as Georgia’s Secretary of State (a position he held while concurrently running for governor) in his successful attempt to block Democrat Stacy Abrams’ run against him, are the root cause for such a large voter turnout in 2020. Georgia voters were determined not to let GQP election manipulations succeed again. I believe the backlash to this latest Georgia election scam will have a similar, if not greater, effect. The GQP has delivered campaign issues (it’s been decades since they’ve delivered ideas) to the doorsteps of the Dems. Good Dem candidates just need to grab those issues and run with them.

The photograph of Governor Kemp on the internet today says it all with him signing the bill under a large photo of a SLAVE PLANTATION. At least they were wearing masks that weren’t pointy white ones with holes for their eyes.

God I love being Canadian some days

I hope this backfires on them like the 2020 election did.

But but but… it’s okay to stop voters from voting if you’re “right”…

If that vile law is still in force come election time, I’ll be handing out water to people in line. I’ll also support any group I can find that challenges every voter in heavily Republican precincts (goose, gander).

The DoJ is already looking into the new GA voter laws.

Brian Kemp enemy of the people.

Republicans, not able over to overthrow the whole government on January 6, 2021 now committed to doing it one state at a time.

Signed to save the Republic!

Has anyone read this law? The main point is that it requires some kind (almost any kind) of ID to get an absentee ballot. That’s it. From all this discussion you would think that there would be a lot more

He looks so happy.

A thoughtful article on the insurrection and voting laws: https://www.noemamag.com/january-6-what-kind-of-revolution-was-it/?campaign_id=129&emc=edit_jbo_20210327&instance_id=28559&nl=jamelle-bouie&regi_id=67969957&segment_id=54329&te=1&user_id=95fa5d90f558447bf06d9bba7f59c55b “At some fundamental level, we are failing at a project of generational succession and transition, failing to hand down an appreciation for and understanding of democracy, a sense of it having value in our lives. From climate change to racial injustice to widening inequality, young people, in particular, see our institutions of governance failing to respond to these threats, and they see a broken system being handed to them just as those problems have become most dire. Their disaffection is not irrational. Their experience is connected to a sense of disempowerment and abandonment, if not downright betrayal, by elites and institutions.”

OK, let’s say the individual states have a right to deny/allow people to vote based upon their very own criteria.

Do I not, then, have a right to choose which companies I deal with based upon my very own criteria?

My criteria?

Where is the company headquartered?

Is it in a state that violates my very own criteria relating to individual’s right to vote?

Case in point:

For my home improvement needs, should I shop at:

HOME DEPOT (Headquartered in GEORGIA), or their major competitor,

LOWE’S (Headquartered in NORTH CAROLINA)?

My very own answer:

I’ll drive the extra mile to LOWE’S to support the economy (in my own small way) of a state that believes in ALL their people, and ALL their people’s right to vote.

I’ve already written to AMAZON asking them to provide vendor locations before ordering. They will do nothing, but I’d like to say I’ve done so when I write to my representatives inside the Beltway. . .

You can buy an assault-style weapon without a waiting period in GA, but you need to be registered to vote a month before election day.

It is against this new POS law to pass out water or food to someone waiting in line to vote.

Kemp purged over 300,000 voters in the 2018 election – he should not have been able to run the election as Sec. of State while running for governor.

Kemp signed this bill while sitting under a plantation painting – he’s such a creep that this was probably on purpose.

Pretty sure the Bill was Designed to try to get it in front of the Supreme Court in hopes that SCOTUS will rule in favor of Jim Crow.

Republicans want to end 240 years of democracy because they love racist would be dictator Trump.

Forgot the plantation picture behind his head.

Nicely done, sir!