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Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 05:47 PM Dec 2012

RNC Finance Chair: Voters in MI bused "from precinct to precinct where they vote multiple times."

OMG, another surreptitiously recorded video of GOP!

What a moran! Talk about racist profiling of minority communities. Follow link for the video:

Top Republican official Ron Weiser's comments about Detroit on videotape are causing a stir
http://www.freep.com/article/20121216/NEWS15/312160307/1285/news15

LANSING -- The finance chairman of the Republican National Committee, who also was Michigan's former GOP chairman, was captured on video telling a tea party meeting that voters in Detroit get picked up at pool halls and barbershops and bused "from precinct to precinct where they vote multiple times."

Ron Weiser also said at the Aug. 9 meeting in Milford that someone not from Detroit would not want to go to the polls there at 6:30 a.m. "without a side arm."

The video of Weiser's comments, recorded by a Democratic operative shadowing GOP congressional candidate Kerry Bentivolio to a meeting where Weiser also spoke, was given to the Free Press and posted on YouTube by the Michigan Democratic Party. ....


The Rs just lost their last two African-American voters
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RNC Finance Chair: Voters in MI bused "from precinct to precinct where they vote multiple times." (Original Post) Coyotl Dec 2012 OP
Let show the proof of this Angry Dragon Dec 2012 #1
you can only vote where you are registered to vote Botany Dec 2012 #2
Isn't it hilarious. Is he gauging the Tea Party IQ as he speaks? Coyotl Dec 2012 #4
I have done election protection work in the belly of the beast AKA Ohio for 5 cycles now .. Botany Dec 2012 #5
The insult to the community is even worse than the voting assertion. Coyotl Dec 2012 #6
Oh bullshit Marrah_G Dec 2012 #3
That's "former ambassador Weiser" to you Fumesucker Dec 2012 #7

Botany

(70,516 posts)
2. you can only vote where you are registered to vote
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 07:14 PM
Dec 2012

made up bullshit by those who get their info from Glen Beck / Fox / ?????

believe this crap.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
4. Isn't it hilarious. Is he gauging the Tea Party IQ as he speaks?
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 09:07 PM
Dec 2012

Sure seems like he's scoring them very, very low. Or, he just makes stuff up when he gets all nervous. What a wonderful buffoon.

Botany

(70,516 posts)
5. I have done election protection work in the belly of the beast AKA Ohio for 5 cycles now ..
Sun Dec 16, 2012, 11:58 PM
Dec 2012

..... people voting twice ...... Oh please

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
6. The insult to the community is even worse than the voting assertion.
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 01:23 AM
Dec 2012

His 'Don't go there unarmed' attitude is what enables the other belief, I'm sure. This is racism, pure and simple.

On edit, the Rs also soooo hate that some precincts and wards are 100% Dems. They can't muster that anywhere.

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