GOPer Caught On Tape Explaining How She’ll Redistrict Black Democratic Colleague Out Of Office

[L. Coyote]

GOPer Caught On Tape Explaining How She’ll Redistrict Black Democratic Colleague Out Of Office (AUDIO)
Author: Jameson Parker September 23, 2015
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/09/23/goper-caught-on-tape-explaining-how-shell-redistrict-black-democratic-colleague-out-of-office-audio/

For years now, people have been noticing that to win elections, Republicans haven’t just bent the rules, they seem to have abandoned the “democracy” game altogether. Apparently unable to win elections fair-and-square, conservatives have increasingly relied on “redistricting” areas that they would have no chance of winning into more favorable seats. And while the practice should be considered an affront to the very idea of an open democracy, it has apparently become so commonplace for lawmakers that one was just caught on tape dryly explaining how she planned to use the technique to defeat her African-American Democratic colleague.

Rep. Janet Adkins was at a private gathering during a meeting of the Republican Party of Florida. Rather than focus on things like plugging the numerous holes in the Republican sinking ship, Adkins was hatching a plan to steal the election instead. According to tapes secretly recorded and leaked to POLITICO, Adkins wanted to kick long-time liberal congresswoman Corrine Brown out of office by carefully redrawing her district to include as many prisons as possible. Prisoners, you may recall, cannot vote. But first, she made everyone swear that there were no reporters in the room that would rat on her.

“Let me give you inside ball game. Are there any reporters in here?” she said. “Any reporters? OK. So, inside ball game.”

Before saying:

“You draw [Brown’s seat] in such a fashion so perhaps, a majority, or maybe not a majority, but a number of them will live in the prisons, thereby not being able to vote,” said Adkins, a Nassau County Republican, referring to black residents.

Adkins concluded by saying the fact that so many minorities are in prisons where they are listed in the census but aren’t actually allowed to vote is the “perfect storm” to beating a Democrat if the district was redrawn just so.

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[cantbeserious]

1. GOP Evil Knows No Limit Or Bound

eom

[brush]

2. Cheating is the only way repugs can win

And they know it, which is why they spend so much time coming up with their dirty schemes.

I hope this goes viral and eventually into MSM.

[Vincardog]

26. No they use Treason as well remember RayGun and the hostages

[ChisolmTrailDem]

3. To the Greatest Page. We should invade her facebook page here:

https://www.facebook.com/janet.adkins

With this link: https://soundcloud.com/politico-states/untitled-9-22-15-1008-pm

[HooptieWagon]

4. A couple of corrections.

First, the headline is inaccurate. They are NOT colleagues. Rep. Janet Adkins is in the Fl House, Rep. Corrine Brown is in the US House.
Secondly, Rep. Brown colloberated with Fl GOP in gerrymandering her district in order to carve herself out a safe seat. Her hands are not clean, it's the most gerrymandered US Congresssional District in Florida. As a result, it gave safe seats to GOP in neighboring Districts that otherwise would be more competitive. Rep Brown was self-serving, not trying to make FL's districts more fair to Democrats.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Important corrections...thank you.

[1monster]

8. True. But this just goes to show that redistricting should NEVER be left to the

politicians.

[HooptieWagon]

14. Fla voters passed a Constitutional Amendment several years ago...

...that districts could not be drawn to favor a party or create a safe seat for an incumbent. Florida Legislature has failed in several attempts to do so. The Fla House and Senate can't even agree. It's in the courts hands now.

[1monster]

15. I'm aware. But I'm not holding my breath. I've lived in Florida for over

forty years.

With the end of Walkin' Lawton Chiles term as governor (didn't he get the last laugh on Jebby by making sure that Jeb was NOT his sucessor!), Florida went off the edge of the cliff that it had been successfully negotiating up until then.

[HooptieWagon]

16. Been here 50.

I'm holding out hope. The Court deciding the redistricting is the same one that has repeatedly ruled the GOP redistricting plans illegal.
Already in TB area some Republican incumbents are filing for other offices, as they see the writing on the wall in their redrawn districts.

[1monster]

19. Good.

[L. Coyote]

37. You are accusing a Dem Congressperson of gerrymandering Florida for the Republicans.

Give us a break!

[HooptieWagon]

38. That's exactly what happened.

She colloberated with the GOP so she could have a safe seat carved out for her, even though it meant the surrounding districts then became safe GOP seats.
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/15/1402643/-One-of-the-most-gerrymandered-districts-in-America-is-about-to-meet-its-doom

http://m.jacksonville.com/news/florida/2012-07-29/story/corrine-brown-wins-redistricting-war#showInfo=http://m.wap.jacksonville.com/news/florida/2012-07-29/story/corrine-brown-wins-redistricting-war?fmt=www

[L. Coyote]

45. No, that's just what you say happened.

[HooptieWagon]

50. Links are right there in my post.

And here's another, even more damaging:

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/democrat-us-rep-corrine-brown-again-aligns-with-gop-in-florida/1169453

[L. Coyote]

53. The Rs did the gerrymandering, and now post facto you want to blame a Dem. That's absurd and wrong.

[HooptieWagon]

55. And she colloberated with the Rs.

And she still is. Why do you think the NAACP harshly criticized her?

[L. Coyote]

61. So, now you are admitting you were wrong. Well, keep backtracking until you are right.

Because, now you have just modified your falsehood. Time to retract it.

[HooptieWagon]

64. WTF? I haven't back-tracked one bit.

Is English not your first language?

[djean111]

51. A Dem anything in Florida can most likely be a DINO.

This is the state where Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, DINO head of the DNC, both campaigned for GOP buddies, and sat out and refused to campaign for Dems because they were running against her GOP buddies.

The Democratic party reeks of self-serving Third Way, down here. And with Debbie deciding who gets support and who does not (she works very closely with the Florida Democratic party), that old admonition to elect progressives is pretty much useless, except at a very local level. Debbie is now pushing a guy for Rubio's seat who was not even a Democrat until about 2012, and only switched so he could run against the GOP incumbent. And the Florida progressive Caucus was threatened with disbandment or something when they objected to this guy and wanted a Progressive to run. That's what Florida is like now. DINO country.

[HooptieWagon]

56. Debbie's goons threatened a AA who filed to run in my district.

In order to clear the primary for another of Debbie's ex-GOP pets. The AA forced to withdraw was in fear for his family's safety.

[Eleanors38]

60. I'm afraid this is correct. I suspect it goes on elsewhere as well.

[L. Coyote]

62. You know what they say about opinions and suspicions.

Neeh!

[Eleanors38]

66. Well, don't fall in one.

[Overseas]

5. K&R. I'm glad this move has been exposed.

Republicans are using all their dirty tricks!

[Rex]

7. If only gerrymandering was a crime punishable by prison time.

Alas, our leaders don't like fair play. Why is that?

[HooptieWagon]

10. If that was the case, Rep Brown would be in prison also.

She colloberated with the Fl GOP in the original gerrymandering of her district, in order to get herself a safe seat. As a result, it created several safe seats for the GOP in neighboring districts. She is not an innocent victim.
Regardless, the redistricting is no longer in the hands of the Fla Legislature. They have failed several times. It's now in the Courts hands to redraw the districts.

[Rex]

12. Gerrymandering is one of those issues where you can say both parties do it.

Yes I know. Texas is in the horrible condition it is in, because back in the day dems and reps decided to carve it up so they didn't have to worry about votes.

And here we are now. A completely fucked up country with districts shaped like an octopus.

[Ichigo Kurosaki]

27. Illinois is one messed up looking state gerrymander wise. [nt]

[murielm99]

43. Yes.

Look at the 17th District.

Although, I have to say that right now, I am relieved we have a Democratic statehouse. Rauner is going to destroy this state otherwise.

[Hortensis]

24. It should be, along with vote and election tampering, with severe sentences.

[perdita9]

9. Why isn't this national news?

Deliberately trying to turn someone out of office is a heck of a lot more heinous than having a private email server.

[HooptieWagon]

11. Because Rep Brown is not an innocent victim.

See posts 4 and 10.

[CreekDog]

46. Why do you not want to talk about the racial issue here?

You'll probably say there is none.

[HooptieWagon]

47. What the hell are you talking about?

[L. Coyote]

48. You blame Dems Reps in racially aggregated gerrymandered districts. That's just ludicrous.

Talk about pinning the donkey on the tail! You are totally confused about cause and effect.

[HooptieWagon]

49. She participated in the gerrymandering.

She's not an innocent victim.
Links in post 38.
Rep Brown has even been highly criticized by the NAACP and ACLU for colloberating with the GOP in order to secure herself a safe seat.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/democrat-us-rep-corrine-brown-again-aligns-with-gop-in-florida/1169453

[L. Coyote]

52. You are conflating two distinct issues. Don't blame Dems for the gerrymandering by the Rs.

[HooptieWagon]

57. I'll blame Dems who colloberated with Rs in gerrymandering.

Why do you think the NAACP harshly criticized Rep Brown?

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/democrat-us-rep-corrine-brown-again-aligns-with-gop-in-florida/1169453

Quote:
"I like Corrine," said Leon Russell, an NAACP leader who has worked on election issues. "But I wish she hadn't done this. I don't think you should frustrate the process purely on basis of your self-interest, no matter who you are."

[L. Coyote]

63. You blaming someone is a lot different than the facts you falsely assert. Stick to facts instead of

accusing a Dem Congressperson of something they did not do.

[HooptieWagon]

65. Whatever. Peep can read my posts and links, and see you're obviously wrong.

Nice try...take a Tnx box on your way off the stage.

[librechik]

13. Step 2: Put all the black people and liberals in prison. n/t

[mountain grammy]

17. Yep.. the ultimate goal.

[packman]

59. It worked in Furguson

it kept a white power structure in office perpetuating their abusive politics and police state. Make a majority of eligible voters ineligible to vote by making them felons on BS charges.

[zentrum]

18. Can't this be officially investigated?

On the grounds of violating human rights, fundamental rights? There has to be a way to make this a huge stink. A huge story.

I know it's been going on for over a hundred years but with this tape, can't something else happen now?

[elehhhhna]

20. That's RICO shit right there. Conspiracy. Fed charges

Taking about it no, doing it, yes.

[kelliekat44]

21. Lani Guinier tried to explain how the prison-census-voter link worked and I have been explaining

this to DUers for a long time. This is precisely the reason Dr. Guinier was not able to become AG under Clinton when he was forced to back down from her appointment to appease the RW pols. (Never quite forgave him for this move). This relation between prisoners and the census is the primary reason that so many red states and red jurisdictions fight to have prisons built within their districts.

Prisoners count as residents for census purposes thereby entitling more Congressional representation for those districts BUT the prisoners are not allowed to vote. Blue districts and states have lost representation as prisons have been moved and built outside those districts. It is amazing how politically ignorant American voters are about what is going on around them. And the media does a good job of not exposing so many of these ploys. We are lucky to be no worse off than we are, America.

http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/guinier/

[JDPriestly]

22. That is ugly, ugly, ugly.

[C Moon]

23. She apologized so all is good...

That's all GOP candidates need to do, right? Apologize after being caught?

http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2015-09-23/story/rep-janet-adkins-apologizes-comments-saying-convicts-key-defeating-us

[Enthusiast]

25. True.

[Plucketeer]

33. God forgives her

who couild trump that???

[radicalliberal]

35. Adkins: “I apologize if my statements offended anyone."

I've heard this stupid, insulting line many times. This is NOT an apology! It's classic, insincere BS. Public relations baloney.

This person should suffer some repercussions, but I bet there won't be any.

Folks, the moral of the story is "Don't get caught!"

[C Moon]

41. True. That's more like an eye-roll than an apology.

[NonMetro]

28. Gerrymandering Leave Millions Of People Without A Voice In Government

In Michigan, on the tea party surge in 2010, the GOP gained control of congress, and gerrymandered this state, using sophisticated software, to the point where it is now not possible for the Democrats to get a majority in either state chamber. And Democrats are a majority here, voting for Obama both times, and we have two Democratic Senators - the only seats the Repiblicans couldn't gerrymander away. There should be a law against this. Minority rule is the opposite of democracy.

[YOHABLO]

31. So does the electoral college.

[No Vested Interest]

42. SAme thing has happened in Ohio nt

[hifiguy]

29. There really is no end to Repig sleaziness

and neo-fascism.

[Skittles]

30. they know they cannot appeal to black voters with their ideas

so what choice do they have?

[valerief]

32. K&R

[Liberal_in_LA]

34. Ugh

[Beartracks]

36. GOP thinks politics is "played" like Survivor. Which means...

... lie and cheat your way to winning the money/power.

It has nothing to do with public service, in the eyes of conservatives.

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[shenmue]

39. Hello, federal charges!

[Live and Learn]

40. No wonder thay support a high incarceration rate. Disgusting! nt

[Uncle Joe]

44. Vile and disgusting.

Thanks for the thread, L. Coyote.

[stevenleser]

54. Before even reading this I guessed it was a Florida Republican.

The Republicans down in Florida have an arrogant air about them going back to the mid 1990's.

They have had such a lock on the Florida state legislature that they think they can get away with just about anything down there.

[John Poet]

58. Most Republican officeholders are criminals, IMHO.

They just need to be investigated.