Missouri GOP Exec Calls Ferguson Voter Registration Efforts ‘Disgusting’
In the din of noise about the Ferguson Mo. tragedy, it is hard to be heard. But today, at least two comments deserve our attention for their offensiveness.
Missouri Republican Party Executive Director Matt Wills denounced voter registration efforts amid continued protests in Ferguson, calling it “disgusting.”
Second, from a pro-police op-ed by Sunil Dutta:
…if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me.
Apparently all of these actions are justifications for being shot by the police. Both of these comments are deeply appalling in a democratic society.
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By: Stuart Shapiro
Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.
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KatieAnnieOakley August 22nd, 2014 at 14:24
Didn’t the GOP use “FOUR DEAD IN BENGHAZI” to fund-raise?
AnthonyLook August 28th, 2014 at 01:59
TRANSLATION: Republicans by next week will come up with some voter suppression measures of African American voters, liberal voters, Democrat voters, women voters, ethnics of all races voters, gay voters, elderly voters, poor voters, the sick voters, the homeless voters, student voters …
AnthonyLook August 28th, 2014 at 01:59
TRANSLATION: Republicans by next week will come up with some voter suppression measures of African American voters, liberal voters, Democrat voters, women voters, ethnics of all races voters, gay voters, elderly voters, poor voters, the sick voters, the homeless voters, student voters …