Georgia may never recover from Trump's shitshow

The president of the Georgia chapter of the NAACP said Wednesday that he is resigning from a bipartisan election task force formed by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to improve voting policies because the process is a “farce.”

The Rev. James Woodall told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he’s participated in weekly meetings with dozens of other community leaders, elections experts and politicians to review policies and suggest improvements but that “nothing has happened” with their recommendations.

“It’s all for show,” he said in an interview. “He’s trying to play both sides.”

Woodall said he’s long been frustrated with the committee, but that he decided to resign after Raffensperger criticized a judge’s ruling Monday that rejected challenges to the eligibility of more than 4,000 Georgia voters. Raffensperger, a Republican, called the decision a “direct attack on the rule of law in Georgia.

“The latest attempt to disenfranchise eligible Georgia voters flies in the face of the integrity of safe, secure and accessible elections,” he said. “And that’s why I can no longer participate in such a farce.”

  Atlanta Journal-Constitution

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

It's past time

Here's a great interview with Adam Jentleson, who worked for Harry Reid, about how the Democrats (and particularly Nancy Pelosi) are missing the mark with their current strategy.

And Jentleson's June GQ article: The Political Costs of Not Impeaching Trump.

Here's one point in it that I hadn't previously considered:

Trump’s weaponized Department of Justice under Barr, who has shown himself to be Trump’s eager and obedient partner in abusing the power of the state to advance the president’s political interests, will inevitably invent a pretext for investigating the Democratic nominee. Democrats should consider whether they’d rather engage that fight against a president who has been impeached for serious crimes, or against a president strengthened by the de facto exoneration bestowed when his opponents declined to pursue the evidence against him.

  GQ

Start proceedings now.

Missouri, Number One in Racism

How'd we pull that one out?

NAACP Urgent Missouri Travel Advisory

[T]he NAACP is 108 years old and never has done this before. It did not do it to, say, Louisiana during the height of the lynching crises. It did not do it to Mississippi after Medgar Evers was murdered, or after the bodies were dug out of that dam in Neshoba County. It did not do it to Alabama after the church bombing, or to Tennessee after Dr. King was killed. It didn't do it to the Commonwealth (God save it!) during the eruptions over busing in the 1970s. It did it to Missouri, in 2017.

  

Here's one from April you have to read to believe:

P.S.  The law passed.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Still Digging

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney may be guilty of federal felony if he lied to the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) about when he ceded control of Bain Capital, President Barack Obama’s campaign suggested on Thursday.

The Boston Globe reported on Thursday that SEC documents showed that Romney continued to serve as Bain’s “sole stockholder, chairman of the board, chief executive officer, and president” until 2002 — even though he has repeatedly claimed that he left the company in 1999.

In an attempt to defend against claims that Romney was Bain’s CEO during the period that the company invested in firms that moved American jobs to countries like China, FactCheck.org may have accidentally revealed that the GOP candidate committed a “federal felony.”
  Raw Story

(Why is federal felony in quotes, Raw Story guys?)

Plus...

The director to the NAACP’s Washington Bureau revealed on Thursday that GOP hopeful Mitt Romney had conservative African Americans “flown in” to the 103rd convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to make it appear that he had more support than he really did.
  Raw Story

And just yesterday Mitt was ingratiating himself to his white audience saying that those darkies he talked to the day before should understand nothing's really free.  He didn't say, "except air travel for my supporters."

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway. Because Mitt Romney knows that it doesn't matter what he says or does. Elections are rigged.