Top Republican official Ron Weiser's comments about Detroit on videotape are causing a stir
Source: Detroit Free Press
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. Weiser emphatically said Friday that he meant no offense to Detroit and was speaking about past, not current, campaigns. But his comments immediately drew sharp criticism from a civil rights activist and a Detroit lawmaker.
The controversy drew comparisons to a surreptitiously recorded video of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney telling people at a Florida campaign fund-raiser last May that he couldn't rely on the support of 47% of the country because they rely on government handouts and likely would support President Barack Obama.
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)fucking with the people of MI and this shit is gonna backfire 24/7.
tanyev
(42,571 posts)if the trained precinct workers in all those precincts aren't catching multiple ineligible voters.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)...put your fuck'n "money where your mouth is" Creep!
Mz Pip
(27,451 posts)What he is describing is a felony and should be subject to prosecution. I doubt he has any evidence at all. He's just a race baiting creep working to keep the fear alive within his base.
marble falls
(57,112 posts)they are always surrounded by like thinkers.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)marble falls
(57,112 posts)Tutonic
(2,522 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)Excellent. MF Whiners.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Yeah he was talking about past elections for some of his comments but so what. He made serious allegations based solely on a racist analysis of Detroit voters.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Ambassador Weiser is a real shit.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)ballaratocker
(126 posts)our side doesn't need to edit our videos. The speak for themselves.