Florida's Elected Democrats.
It has always been a peculiar component of American history that
African-American voters having suffered at the hands of the Democratic
Party's power structure during the Jim Crow
era in the South nevertheless remained in the Democratic Party. Today in
Florida there are political brochures with pictures of firehoses
and dogs turned on Blacks during the Civil Rights movement, lynchings
and testimony/hearsay that these same techniques were used to keep people
from voting during the 2000 presidential election. But what has apparantly
been forgotten in the 40-50 years since the Civil Rights movement is that
it was Democrats, not Nixon, Reagan or Bush-Cheney Republicans, who were
brutalizing Blacks in the South.
After doing a little research it seems that once Blacks won the right to
vote in 1965 the white Democratic
power structure recognizing this huge new voting block, had to come up
with a new technique for staying in power. They began courting the Black
vote and hand-picking Black leaders to run in Black districts as Democrats.
This quick alliance of former enemies now a generation old is causing
bizarre Republican scapegoating and a peculiar double-consciousness within
the Democratic hierarchy.
For example, when Michael Moore spoke at UCF on October 2, he riducled
Vice-President Dick Cheney for requiring the general public to sign
a loyalty oath before they could hear him speak at a campaign rally
in New Mexico. The crowd for Moore went wild including Democratic
Congresswoman Corrine Brown who had just introduced Moore to the
audience. But internally Congresswoman Brown must have also been
thinking about her party's loyalty oath, the one she has to sign every
time she runs for office. Cheney's oath was to screen out hecklers
whereas the oath which Brown must sign has Brown infringing on her own
First Amendment rights.
U.S. Congressman
Kendrick Meek, John Kerry's campaign manager for Florida, who likewise
must sign the Florida Democratic Party's party loyalty oath every time
he runs for office proclaims his readiness to not let the 2000 Florida
presidential recount repeat itself, "We want our voices to be heard, ...
And this year, we will be prepared for whatever they throw at us."
Well if he wants his voices to be heard why does he keep signing his
party's loyalty oath which infringes on his freedom of speech.
U.S. Congressman Robert Wexler is on the House Judiciary Committee and on
October 4 live on C-SPAN he was pleading for open and transparent elections
in the upcoming Ukraine and Belaruse elections, yet this four-term U.S.
Congressman has everytime signed his party's loyalty oath behind party
doors in a less than transparant fashion. He also scorned North Korea for
their permanent suspension of the freedom of the press. Please go back up
to the bulletin titled, "Party Loyalty Oaths" to see how hypocritical these
positions are in lieu of the party loyalty oath which he has to sign.
This is amazing.
If you do a Google search on "Kelly v. Harris" without the double-quotes
you will see that Congressman Wexler cited this case
in his own case which challenges not his party's loyalty oath but
touch-screen/
paperless voting. A FEW DAYS AFTER WE RAN AN AD ABOUT THIS IN THE UCF
STUDENT NEWSPAPER, THIS CASE IS NO LONGER FOUND UNDER GOOGLE.
You may have read about this case recently
because it is still in
the courts. Why didn't Wexler, a sitting U.S. Congressman,
with his standing as a Democrat and a
"commitment" to freedom of the press and open and transparant elections
himself challenge a loyalty oath which infringes on his First Amendment
rights? Without answering that you should never vote for him or
any other Democrat from Florida.
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