"If we do not suppress the Detroit vote,

[redqueen]

we're going to have a tough time in this election." - State Rep. John Pappageorge, R-Troy

Thanks for your honesty!

Democrats blast GOP lawmaker's 'suppress the Detroit vote' remark
http://www.freep.com/news/statewire/sw101420_20040721.htm

Link to LBN thread...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x701014

[Pachamama]

1. Be Afraid...be very afraid....

This, is the truth of what they want to do....he just let the cat out of the bag....the entire Repuke party wants to suppress the vote..

[redqueen]

5. That's why I'm so thankful

this 73 year old man just handed us in a moment of candor an invitation to make their vote fraud a national issue... first BBV, then FL voter roll scrubbing, and now this... it won't be so easy for the media to ignore once Jane and Joe Public start focusing their eyes. :)

[LordActon]

2. Just...

A bad choice of words. Good grief! I wish I had the $ to print that article and mail it to every Detroit resident as this will likely get suppressed by the corporate media.

[redqueen]

4. LTTE's to Detroit media... phone calls to their talk shows

etc... lets hope Dems in MI get this story nationwide attention!

:hi:

[zbdent]

12. Just print out a few copies of the article onto full-page size labels

and post them on bus stops.

You get a lot of traffic (pun intended) that way.

[redqueen]

14. Love it!

The founding fathers used flyers as well... very effective!

:toast:

[LuminousX]

3. Voter suppression is treason

No matter which side is doing it.

Voting is as American as Apple Pie and Mom. Trying to prevent someone to vote is un-American and un-Patriotic. Did the men and women who gave their lives fighting for this country do so to prevent certain people from being able to cast their vote?

[frylock]

6. you cannot vote on the 3rd if you have unpaid tickets..

look for the GOP to distribute flyers in democratic neighborhoods.

[Octafish]

7. Bigotry can be soooo ironic.

A typical suburbanite repuke, Pappageorge puts down the African Americans in Detroit regularly.

What he doesn't know is that the WASP suburbanites put down Pappageorge because he's "Grek."

Regarding the election in Michigan -- the GOP is doing all it can to screw the DEMs, from gathering 35,000 votes for Ralphie to running false-flag ops in the cities.

What can save the day is for the concerned communities to come out swinging on election day with RECORD TURNOUTS. In Detroit that would mean getting something like 65-percent of those eligible to the polls.

What's needed is 80-percent participation. Not only can we run the turds like Pappageorge out of office, we can rid the nation of the vermin occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[shraby]

8. What if there is a convenient power

outage in Detroit on election day?

[redqueen]

11. Every detroit Dem should be called

Whether they've voted or not (why are so many lists recent voters -- 'cause it's easy?)... and informed of this, and asked to bring their friends with them to vote on election day.

[ursacorwin]

13. i'm not really worried.

MI is pretty safe- the whole metro detroit community is energized and i don't think a lot of upstate people are that happy with shrub either. vets coming home and looking around at their communities, and seeing what MM showed us in f911...MI elected Jenny G for gov, and she's a pretty decent dem.

and as for detroit- ha ha, you racist thug- just try it! not only the af-am voter is energized, but also the very large arab-am population...while many started off thinking removing saddam was a good idea, i promise you, arab-americans in the area hate bush now.

the only way the rethugs can win is to cheat. it's getting more obvious every day.

[Bread and Circus]

9. Wow, that's outrageous. That sounds scarey, remember Florida

They did "suppress" the black vote there.

Poor choice of words my ass.

[Radical Activist]

10. Good luck with that because

Project Vote and ACORN are registering tens of thousands of African-American and Latino voters in Detroit. So are ACT and some other groups.

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. Does that matter?

It didn't matter in Florida....they can just do their special little purge and disappear 58,000 voters from the rolls.

[stanwyck]

15. What do black conservatives have to say

about the GOP wanting to "suppress" the Detroit vote? Do black conservatives support the disenfranchisement? Have they publicly condemned their party member? Just wondering.