Florida GOP County Chair: Black People are Voting!!!

by: fladem

Thu Oct 30, 2008 at 22:10


The Hillsborough County Chairman here in Florida forwarded an e-mail today that is rascist.  There is simply no other way to interpret it. I voted at the precinct in question, which is right next to the County GOP Office.  I am so not surprised. It's true - many African-Americans were exercising their right to vote.  What could be scarier!!

I always find it interesting that no one ever accuses racists of being anti-American.

Update
This is the lead story tonight on the CBS and NBC local 11:00 PM news in Tampa.    The CBS local station showed it to USF Students for their reaction.  They were stunned....
fladem :: Florida GOP County Chair: Black People are Voting!!!

THE THREAT:
HERE IN TEMPLE TERRACE, FL OUR REPUBLICAN HQ IS ONE BLOCK AWAY FROM OUR LIBRARY, WHICH IS AN EARLY VOTING SITE.

I SEE CARLOADS OF BLACK OBAMA SUPPORTERS COMING FROM THE INNER CITY TO CAST THEIR VOTES FOR OBAMA. THIS IS THEIR CHANCE TO GET A BLACK PRESIDENT AND THEY SEEM TO CARE LITTLE THAT HE IS AT MINIMUM, SOCIALIST, AND PROBABLY MARXIST IN HIS CORE BELIEFS. AFTER ALL, HE IS BLACK--NO EXPERIENCE OR ACCOMPLISHMENTS--BUT HE IS BLACK.
I ALSO SEE YOUNG COLLEGE STUDENTS AND THEIR PROFESSORS FROM USF PARKING THEIR CARS WITH THE PROMINENT 'OBAMA' BUMPER STICKERS. THE STUDENTS ARE ENTHUSIASTIC TO BE VOTING IN A HISTORIC ELECTION WHERE THERE MAY BE THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT.

If you read the e-mail it is hard not to see the unexpressed fear running through the veins of so many Republicans.  I have little doubt that this e-mail expresses the true feelings of many on the right.  

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Florida GOP County Chair: Black People are Voting!!! | 36 comments
That's a lot more than just racist! (4.00 / 4)
They slam pretty much anyone with any intelligence...

Actually, it's great news!  Young people are GOTVing!  I was worried about that demographic...

REID: Voting against us was never part of our arrangement!
SPECTER: I am altering the deal! Pray I don't alter it any further!
REID: This deal keeps getting worse all the time!

The problem for the GOP is (4.00 / 4)
that its not just the black people that are voting for Obama.  I stood with three Cuban Americans who voted for Bush the last time.  They are voting for Obama this time.

[ Parent ]
some IA polls have shown Obama leading (4.00 / 1)
even in western Iowa, even in rural Iowa, in parts of the state where Bush crushed Kerry.

Iowa as a whole is about 96 percent white.

Join the Iowa progressive community at Bleeding Heartland.

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College students! Professors! (4.00 / 3)
Voting in broad daylight as if they had every right in the world!

What is this world coming to?

Montani semper liberi

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What is this guy, from the moron Sixth Sense? (4.00 / 10)
"I SEE BLACK PEOPLE--VOTING!!!"

Do Repubs have to undergo a mandatory lobotomy when registering?

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself. (Proverbs 11:25)

Black people voting ZOMG I MUST GO ALL CAPITAL LETTERS!1!!! (4.00 / 8)
Someone needs to shut down that guy's caps lock key.
This is actually pretty funny (0.00 / 0)
The Tampa Tribune (0.00 / 0)
Here is the story with some priceless reactions:

Disgusting," said Karen Thurman, chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party and a former congresswoman.

Storck released a statement late Thursday apologizing for forwarding the e-mail.

"I sent it out after quickly skimming through it and focused only on the part which encouraged people to get out to vote,'' Storck said in the statement. "I can certainly understand how the e-mail could be misunderstood. I should never have forwarded that message and sincerely apologize for sending it and to anyone that my action has offended.''


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Gotta love the non-apology apology (4.00 / 1)
I won't apologize for the actions themselves, but I will apologize if anyone was offended by them?

What an a*hole.

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What this is realy all about (4.00 / 8)
is the crumbling of right wing hegemony, as Paul Rosenberg likes to point out. Racism is a definite message, but it is the subtext to the right wing's anxiety over loss of authority. I offer another example that is similar but not relevant to race:
Just the other day, I was canvassing in Durham, NC, for Kay Hagan, and my partner and I (we're both white) were challenged by a resident who wanted to know what "right" we had to ask people who they were going to vote for and whether or not we were violating people's privacy by passing out literature about Democratic candidates. She threatened to call the "authorities" on us. No doubt, if we had been handing out religious tracks it would have been no problem for her. But threats to the Established Order of Things are going to be met with hostility by the people who perceive themselves as being the embodiment of the Established Order.
You are completely right (4.00 / 2)
it is about the crumbling hegemony of the right.  

And about deeply set fears of black people that go back 200 years in the South.  

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What's funny about that (4.00 / 1)
is that you were merely reinforcing the "established order of things" by exercising your first amendment rights! Don't get much more established than a 200-some odd year old amendment to the constitution.

Btw, I love telling people when they say "no soliciting", "That's ok, I'm not soliciting! I'm not selling anything." That always blows their minds.  

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i lurve that his "solution" is a chain e-mail (4.00 / 7)
YOU MUST SEND THIS TO TEN PEOPLE BY MIDNIGHT OF THE DAY YOU RECEIVE IT OR ELSE KARL MARX WILL RISE FROM HIS GRAVE AND JOIN OSAMA BIN LADEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE CABINET!!!!!!!

Honestly, is this e-mail for real?  And if it is, there are really people like this that will type what he typed in all caps and send it to other people and think that it's a winning tactic?

Tampa ABC affiliate says it's real (4.00 / 2)
They got this quote from the county GOP chair:

In an email sent to ABC Action News, Storck says "it was a mistake" to forward the email, adding that he had "quickly skimmed through it and focused only on the part which encouraged people to vote."

I guess he skimmed through it and agreed with the stuff about...the college professors?

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See the Tampa Tribune (4.00 / 1)
link above.  This is real.

It's unbelievable.  But it's real.

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"there are really people like this" (0.00 / 0)
Yes. Welcome to America.
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look i've run into my share of racists (4.00 / 1)
but usually people don't act like caricatures of caricatures of themselves :)

Also, I can has America 2?!  America's about to elect a biracial Black president.  All else aside,  hooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

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My favorite part (4.00 / 1)
Is how some guy who works near a polling place can tell with such precision the life history of the voters.

I ALSO SEE YOUNG COLLEGE STUDENTS AND THEIR PROFESSORS...THE COLLEGE PROFESSORS, PARTICULARLY IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, FOR THE MOST PART HAVE LITTLE OR NO EXPERIENCE IN THE WORK-A-DAY WORLD.
THEIR LIFE EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN MOSTLY ACADEMIC UNDER THE TUTELAGE OF LIBERAL COLLEGE PROFESSORS. FOR THEM, A LITTLE SOCIALISM AND ANTI-AMERICANISM IS A GOOD THING.

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I suddenly feel the urge (4.00 / 6)
to write racist anti-Obama screeds myself, just to elevate the genre.

That's pathetic. Are they even trying? That reads like a lame dKos comment satirizing a Republican email.

They can't even racist right anymore?

Understand (4.00 / 7)
that it is widely believed that the single most important county in Florida is Hillsborough County (Tampa).

This is an e-mail from the fricken county chair of the most important swing county in the entire state!!

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I'm stunned it's real. (4.00 / 1)
I didn't know that, no. I figured some podunk county somewhere. Not that that'd make it any better, but ... I don't know. Wow. The anti-American, democracy-hating racism doesn't even surprise me so much as ... what? The absolute fail.
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Indeed (4.00 / 3)
The fact that Democrats are beating them by almost 32 points in in-person early voting in Hillsborough must have them scared out of their socks.

The Obama volunteer office I go to in Fort Myers is always buzzing any time I go there. The McCain office on the same street, so we often go by it on our way to canvass somewhere. I don't think I've ever seen more than two or three cars there. This is Lee County, not Miami Beach or something. The difference is stark.

Conduct your own interview of Sarah Palin!

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The full text is impressive. (0.00 / 0)

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old story (4.00 / 7)
Reminds me of when I was a grad student at college and organized a Students Against Apartheid. The conservative students on campus organized a countergroup, Students Against a Marxist South Africa. They actually argued in favor of apartheid and white minority rule because black majority rule would lead to the communist rule of the pro-soviet ANC.

Of course they also adored Ronald Reagan and the Nicarguans contras too. "Freedom fighters" they called them.

Same thing in the 1980s in Britain (4.00 / 3)
The youth wing of the Tories (the Federation of Conservative Students) responded to the NUS' call to free Nelson Mandela by demanding that he be hanged.

They were so thoroughly insane that in the end Thatcher had to shut them down.

Forgotten Countries - a foreign policy-focused blog

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Wow, that's even crazier than Dick Cheney (4.00 / 2)
I think he "only" wanted to keep Mandela in prison.
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Well, they were ridiculously ignorant (0.00 / 0)
They were basically an agitprop group passionately devoted to hating the left and the moderates within their own party. It's questionable as to whether or not they knew who Mandela was, but if the left (from their perspective) said free him, they'd say hang him.

Amongst the parliamentary Tories, only the nuttiest of the Monday Club crowd would have gone along with that by the 1980s (and even then they'd probably have preferred him being shot whilst trying to escape.) Most of the party just favoured a white South Africa that bought a lot of stuff from BAE.

Forgotten Countries - a foreign policy-focused blog

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The 'Let's all pray' part really tops it off nicely. (4.00 / 1)
Be afraid of the African Americans, they are voting.  Marx will rise from the dead, Obama will destroy our nation.  Let's all pray for a rigged election. Unbelievable.
Nasty GOP Stories going nationwide. (0.00 / 0)
   The Wolf campaign's public caneing is all over the DC area news.

John McCain lets lobbyists shape his economic policy
I See Black People ~~ Voting!! (0.00 / 0)
You can write to Mr. Storck and share your thoughts with him at:
chairman@hcrp.org
and if you send Mr Storck's email (4.00 / 3)
to 10 of your Obama-supporting friends, and they send it to 10 of their friends, BY THE END OF THE WEEKEND, 100,000,000,000 WILL TELL MR STORCK WHAT THEY THINK OF HIM!!!

Ah, the smell of desperation.  Is there anything more pathetic than a rightwing whack job who knows he's losing?

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PURE FEAR (4.00 / 3)
Their racism is stripped down to the essential fear of Blacks, a people so wronged that it would be natural for them to take revenge on Whites, if given the chance and the power; this is how they twist it. Racism assumes that hatred will be paid back in kind and they will all be killed in their beds by the very people they have historically wronged, and recently hated. Their racism keeps them ignorant. They project, wrongly, their own hatred and it makes them fearful.

This isn't the way that the Christian world works, but they aren't really  Christians at all; they just wear the label, and keep their fears and their hatreds instead of learning about Christian love and charity. And McCain keeps stirring their fears.

Nothing has gone wrong for McCain - this is who he really is, someone who hated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and scorned a holiday for him. Someone who hates caring for Vets as he himself was cared for, and still is, for his service in war. John McCain is a hater who also scorns Barack Obama, his youth, grace, political talent, and Christian charity. McCain is a hater and he can't hide it. If I know anything about the majority of Americans this is it: they will not elect a hater.  

the gop doesn't (0.00 / 0)
think that a comment like this is anti-american because the blacks they are defaming aren't real (white) americans to the gop, this is just one more reason why i have begun to dislike (hate) the right so much, they despise everything our country stands for and will do everything in their power to tear down our democracy and constitutional values brick by brick.  
My local god-fearing racist. (0.00 / 0)
Our self proclaimed pundit, Ms. Waasef, wrote in her column for the Paris Post Intelligencer that Obama was blacker than Colin Powell.

Whaaa?

She has a keen eye for the obvious, then... (0.00 / 0)
As we all know, Obama's father was Kenyan; his ancestry was likely pure African all the way back to the origins of Homo sapiens.  Powell's Jamaican immigrant parents were both of mixed African and European ancestry, and his appearance suggests considerably more of the latter than the former.  He's considered "black" by American standards only because our definition of "black" is still based on the idiotic, racist "one-drop" rule under which if one of your great-great-grandparents was african and the other fifteen of them were Europeans, you were counted as "black" for the purpose of denying you the rights of citizenship and, in the old days, owning you as a slave.  Ironically, by defining "whiteness" so narrowly and "blackness" so broadly, racists gave their progressive opponents a larger natural constituency than they might otherwise have enjoyed.

"A fantasy is not even a wish, much less an act.  There is no such thing as a culpable or shameful fantasy."  -----Lady Sally McGee
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Ahh, the joys of racist fucks (0.00 / 0)
I particularly like this part:

"CONTACT PERSONALLY EVERYONE YOU KNOW REMINDING THEM TO VOTE AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS. PARENTS, VOTING-AGE CHILDREN, IN-LAWS, CO-WORKERS, CHURCH CONTACTS, SCHOOL CONTACTS, BUSINESS CONTACTS."

Voting-age children?  They're 18.  I think they're called adults, dumbass.

Then again, maybe he was thinking of himself.

Florida GOP County Chair: Black People are Voting!!! | 36 comments
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