esquire | There is no point in mincing words. What the Virginia legislature is entertaining now in regards to its election laws is flatly fcking racist. That
it is in response to changing demographics that make Virginia a tough
get for the Republicans in presidential elections now doesn't matter.
That it is what we have come to expect from Republican-majority state
legislatures around the country now doesn't matter. That it's naked
opportunism doesn't matter. That it may not pass doesn't
matter. This is a legislature acting to devalue African American voters
to the advantage of white voters. This is Jim Crow bullshit, and no
politician who deals in it, and no political party that continues to
support said politician, is worthy of support by decent people in the
year 20-goddamn-13.
The bill would apportion electors by congressional district to
the candidate who wins each of the state's 11 districts. The candidate
who carries a majority of the districts would also win the two electors
not tied to congressional districts. Sen. Charles W. "Bill" Carrico,
R-Grayson, said the change is necessary because Virginia's populous,
urbanized areas such as the Washington, D.C., suburbs and Hampton Roads
can outvote rural regions such as his, rendering their will irrelevant.
Thank you, Senator "Bill," for making it plain. There are
now more people in the "urbanized" areas -- and you don't need the
Enigma machine to decode that baby, do you, Paul Ryan?
-- than there are in the "rural" areas so, therefore, the system is
unfair because white people don't win any more. It's not like we
shouldn't know it when we see itm because it's not like we haven't seen this before. Fist tap Dale.
