l'etat, c'est Jeb

from Jim Hightower:

Monday, October 04, 2004
"INTIMIDATING FLORIDA VOTERS"

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Governor Jeb Bush is out to make his state of Florida the next Florida.

In 2000, Jeb used such crude tactics as illegally purging voter lists to help engineer his brother's 537-vote "victory" in that election – and now, here he goes again. As one peer of Florida's GOP establishment candidly puts it: "A Democrat can't win a statewide election in Florida without a high turnout of African-Americans. It's no secret that the name of the game for Republicans is to restrain that turnout as much as possible."

It's frightening how these bullies (see earlier post re: Ohio) will stop at nothing to attempt to manipulate the electoral process for their own partisan ends. Let's hope the the 2000 experience is forcing the news media to shine some light on these murky machinations.

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