Plainspoken intent to steal

Votes, that is.

From the Bergen Record:

[Governor Chris] Christie stressed the need to keep Republicans in charge of states — and overseeing state-level voting regulations — ahead of the next presidential election. Christie made his push at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event in Washington, D.C., where he ran down a list of states he’s spent time in recently as chairman of the Republican Governors Association questioning whether a Republican presidential nominee would rather have the incumbent GOP governor in power or the Democratic challenger.

“Would you rather have Rick Scott in Florida overseeing the voting mechanism, or Charlie Crist? Would you rather have Scott Walker in Wisconsin overseeing the voting mechanism, or would you rather have Mary Burke? Who would you rather have in Ohio, John Kasich or Ed FitzGerald?” he asked.

I think Norm Orenstein of AEI has the best answer to this:

via Ed Kilgore and Steve Benen.

4 Comments

  1. That’s somehow even more sinister than Mike Turzai’s comments.

    But of course it’s obvious with gerrymandering that this sort of thing isn’t exactly a secret, and apparently isn’t even considered unethical or immoral by some politicians.

    Seems to me more & more people have been desensitized. They expect corruption & injustice. Some even like it.
    And even if people state their galling intentions straight out, outcry, or even dispute, is limited.

    Yet if some ordinary woman, with no position of power or public responsibility, says something about having had sexist comments made to her or disagrees with some guy’s opinion, there’s a rabid fury of backlash where people start stalking her at her house.

    We are truly a messed up society.

  2. Regretfully I have to agree with you, at least in part. Politically the US is a mess, and the misogyny displayed in GamerGate is ugly and disheartening. But I try to keep up hope.

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