![Via Buzzfeed:
A top Ohio Republican Sunday stood by his comment that the state’s voting procedures shouldn’t be “contort[ed] to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine.”
In an interview with BuzzFeed, Franklin County GOP Chairman Doug Preisse, a close ally of Governor John Kasich, said his comment — which provoked Democratic outrage — was simply straight talk.
As we’ve said before, attacks on voting rights go hand-in-hand with efforts to dismantle our campaign finance system. As Nick Nyhart and Tova Wang wrote last year, “In fact, there is a well-organized and well-funded national attack on several areas crucial to our democracy including the unprecedented onslaught of bills meant to disenfranchise under-represented communities and the evisceration of campaign finance regulation.”
“People out, money in” seems to be the the motto of too many people these days.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m927pyLt5H1rqsqmjo1_500.jpg)
A top Ohio Republican Sunday stood by his comment that the state’s voting procedures shouldn’t be “contort[ed] to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine.”
In an interview with BuzzFeed, Franklin County GOP Chairman Doug Preisse, a close ally of Governor John Kasich, said his comment — which provoked Democratic outrage — was simply straight talk.
As we’ve said before, attacks on voting rights go hand-in-hand with efforts to dismantle our campaign finance system. As Nick Nyhart and Tova Wang wrote last year, “In fact, there is a well-organized and well-funded national attack on several areas crucial to our democracy including the unprecedented onslaught of bills meant to disenfranchise under-represented communities and the evisceration of campaign finance regulation.”
“People out, money in” seems to be the the motto of too many people these days.
