Eric Holder Is Tired of Being Polite

[DonViejo]

The former attorney general is still finding his voice as a Trump critic. And his new mission as the leader of Democratic redistricting efforts is taking him into unfamiliar territory.

By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE November 07, 2017

RICHMOND, Va. – Eric Holder is still getting used to letting loose. He says firing Bob Mueller “would raise the possibility of impeachment” for President Donald Trump, and that Attorney General Jeff Sessions is both “racially insensitive” and “racially unaware.”

But when I spoke with him 10 days out from the 2017 election, the most important thing the former attorney general thought he could do was to remind the mostly African-American parishioners at Rising Mount Zion, a Baptist church in Virginia’s sleepy capital, about last Nov. 9, “when we woke up to the orange man.”

He was pushing the congregation to get out and vote, to get everyone they know to go out and vote, and make sure Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam wins Tuesday’s governor’s race against Republican Ed Gillespie.

Holder’s a Democrat, but it wasn’t Northam’s tax plans or social views or life story that brought him there. It was the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), the Obama-backed group he chairs, which decided months ago that the most important way this year to shape the future of gerrymandering was ensuring a Democrat is in the Virginia governor’s mansion when the next set of House and state legislative maps get drawn after the 2020 Census.

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[NCTraveler]

1. Holder has found himself a bit busy.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029787008

Thanks for sharing.

[Madam45for2923]

2. Sounds mighty smart.

[whathehell]

3. Good..Let him kick ass!

[Gothmog]

4. AG Holder is my hero here

[uponit7771]

5. K&R

[ancianita]

6. About time. Because I'm even more tired of him being polite.

[irisblue]

8. Way too polite to Wall Street

2009-2016.
Still the Redistricting issue is really important.
A ballot initiative in Ohio will likely be on the 2018 ballot, regarding congressional gerrymandering(Ohio Legislators are a truly self protective species...)
I truly wait to see him on Ohio.

[True Blue American]

9. We voted on that

In 2015.

http://www.dispatch.com/article/20151103/NEWS/311039760

[irisblue]

10. 2015 was on State districts. The possible 2018 initiative is on Congressional Districts.

There is a petition for a bipartisan group to manage federal congressional districts in the state.
I learned about a few weeks back.

[True Blue American]

12. So,it was just state leaders

Not Federal?

Did they ever complete the process? But thanks for the heads up.

Today is the Drug issue. I voted weeks ago.

[irisblue]

13. Ohio legislators are a freaking

no vertebra species. Their political cowardice is why there so many ballot initiatives here. The reason the med MJ was last year an outside political group snatched the ballot field first, the legislature didn't want to be on record about drug legislations, but they are really really good about the regulation portion($$$$$).

[True Blue American]

15. The last I heard the Legislature wanted to

Vote for a Right To Work law.

The Leader of the Senate said Kasich would never sign it. Imagine,we have to depend on John.

And,please do not elect DeWine or Husted for dog catcher.

[irisblue]

17. I am a Democratic Woman

No republicans for a major office in 40 years of voting.

[True Blue American]

18. Join the crowd

I liked IKE but was not Political then. He would be ashamed of this bunch.

Gave us the Interstate. I75 and I70.

[Scarsdale]

7. Holder reminds us

pf a long ago time, when we had ADULTS in charge. What havoc tRump has created in less than a year. He attracts the slimiest, most corrupt people to "work" in his administration. What they are really doing is shoring up their own wealth.

[sarcasmo]

11. Tougher Democrats would be a welcome site.

[lagomorph777]

14. Let's support Obama & Holder in their redistricting effort.

It's necessary for national survival.

[True Blue American]

16. Just compare Holden

To Sessions. Or,Obama to Trump.

[tulipsandroses]

19. I think all Democrats should stop playing nice

Michelle Obama, always my first lady and forever my hero. These days I have to reject her idea of when they go low, we go high. Like the Dixie Chicks, I'm not ready to play nice, I'm mad as hell.