AUTHOR: tsmith TITLE: Some of My Best Friends Are Black Republicans, Part II STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 0 CONVERT BREAKS: tinymce ALLOW PINGS: 1 DATE: 11/11/2006 01:54:07 PM ----- BODY:

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“I’m disappointed at their defeats,” Ernest said referring to the failure of three black conservative Republicans to win statewide contests in this week’s midterm elections. “But I guess this is consistent with your findings that there simply are no instances of blacks preferring a black Republican to a more progressive white candidate.”

Ernest and I had delayed our coffee klatch pending the outcome of the elections. A Maryland native, he was especially upset by Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele’s defeat in the United States Senate contest. “I’m perplexed,” he said. “The Democrats have shown blacks in Maryland no respect . They didn’t select Kwesi Mfume as their Senate candidate, and the only black statewide elected official in Maryland was a Republican–Steele.”

“I believe the Democrats should be punished when they neglect black interests,” I responded. Ernest, a longtime black Republican, looked at me askance.

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“I think you’re being disingenuous, Terry. How could you have advocated Steele’s defeat and at the same time believe the Democratic Party should be punished?”

“Ernest, the United States Senate is often described as the world’s more powerful deliberative body. Its singular authority to confirm judges to lifetime appointments on the federal bench has an immense impact on African Americans. The judiciary ultimately determines whether any legislation intended to address the concerns of minorities is constitutional, and if constitutional, what the proper interpretation of that legislation is.

“If blacks are going to punish the Democratic Party for lack of reciprocity, let’s do it without collateral damage to our substantive interests. Let’s boycott a white Democratic candidate for state attorney general or comptroller, down-ballot offices that would not have the effect of putting a conservative Republican in a position as powerful as United States Senator.”

Ernest paused for a moment to mull my proposal. It is one that I’ve advocated in my academic writing as an intermediate and possibly alternative step to forming a third political party. “I see your point,” Ernest said. “Pitching the protest at that level is like the Green Party seeking the presidency without first having elected city councilmen. Things have a logical progression, but . . . .” Although he recognized my point, Ernest was not satisfied with it. “But if we only target lower-level offices, the Democrats could keep ignoring us. I mean, what would they care?”

“Ernest,” I began, “where do think the candidates for higher offices like governor and United States Senator come from? They come from the lower-level constitutional offices of a state. Boycotting the Democrats in some of these down-ballot contests would almost certainly get their attention.”

While not mollified, Ernest was at least ready to concede the logic of my premise. “Yes, I suppose that makes sense–but only if your reason for voting Republican was just to let the

Democrats know that they cannot take your vote for granted. As I discussed with you last time, I happen to be against abortion, and I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman only.”

“I respect your right to believe those things. You should appreciate, however, that when it comes to private morality, one man’s values are another man’s oppression. The social values debate is intractable.”

“That hardly convinces me that the debate shouldn’t be had or that the common morality shouldn’t be law,” Ernest insisted.

“Have you read ‘What’s The Matter With Kansas’?” I asked. “The book is about the perils of social conservative fundamentalism, namely how its goals often compromise the economic well-being of many of its adherents. It’s worth a read.”

“I’ve heard about it,” Ernest respond. “Perhaps I will have read it by the next time we meet.”

Ernest and I parted ways, friends as always. Nothing had been resolved, but then again, nothing needed to be. We were two black men trying to make sense of our world. ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: David Schraub EMAIL: schraubd@carleton.edu IP: 137.22.123.71 URL: http://dsadevil.blogspot.com DATE: 11/11/2006 04:05:12 PM Not to take away from what is a perfectly legitimate point (I'm serious), but I'm curious what happens in your Maryland example when Black Democrats are being elected to some of those lower-level (but important) offices. For example, the next Lt. Governor is Black (Anthony Green), and Ike Leggett was elected County Executive of Montogomery County Maryland, the largest county in the state (and a legit position for advancement: the last MoCo Cty exec--Doug Duncan--was a front-runner for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination (next to O'Malley) before he dropped out for medical reasons). Again, not detracting from the overall point, but it seems likely that the next Governor, at least, could very well be Black (the next Senate seat will be a vicious fight, as Chris Van Hollen has his eyes on it and is becoming a powerhouse). ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Supremacy Claus EMAIL: supremacyclaus@yahoo.com IP: 71.224.222.153 URL: DATE: 11/11/2006 09:18:58 PM Prof. Smith: You are a flat earth left winger. Nothing will penetrate your delusions and nostalgia for the old Soviet command and control system of government. I will not even comment on your hopeless adherence to the criminal cult enterprise that is your profession. Loyalty to it trumps all others, including that to race. You will never understand. This is for the law students. It should be the policy of the black voter to foster by their votes and financial support gridlock and only gridlock. When one side has its way, it is always blacks that pay a hideous cost. Once the politician has figured out that is the policy, expect a bidding war for black support. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Supremacy Claus EMAIL: supremacyclaus@yahoo.com IP: 71.224.222.153 URL: DATE: 11/11/2006 09:20:02 PM Prof. Smith: You are a flat earth left winger. Nothing will penetrate your nostalgia for the Soviet command and control system of government. I will not even comment on your hopeless adherence to the criminal cult enterprise that is your profession. Loyalty to it trumps all others, including that to race. You will never understand. This is for the law students. It should be the policy of the black voter to foster by their votes and financial support gridlock and only gridlock. When one side has its way, it is always blacks that pay a hideous cost. Once the politician has figured out that is the policy, expect a bidding war for black support. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: T. Smith EMAIL: IP: 67.82.26.34 URL: DATE: 11/12/2006 01:29:35 PM To David Schraub--Thanks for your observations. Blacks in MD should look at the specific candidates for a lower-level office and evaluate whether a particular race is the appropriate one to boycott. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Supremacy Claus EMAIL: supremacyclaus@yahoo.com IP: 71.224.209.202 URL: DATE: 11/12/2006 07:14:23 PM I saw Steele on C-SPAN. He is always pictured here as serious, Republican stuffed shirt. He is not. He is a funny, charming, easy going, good company sort. He took his loss with good humor, and put up with an insufferable, feminist, partisan hack from the Democrat Party, mocking and gloating, a foul human being. Steele should be portrayed with less bias, out of fairness and to enhance the rock bottom credibility around here. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: bint alshamsa EMAIL: nospam@nospam.com IP: 68.108.234.34 URL: http://bintalshamsa.blogspot.com DATE: 11/15/2006 09:44:35 PM Steele should be portrayed with less bias, out of fairness and to enhance the rock bottom credibility around here. Hahaha!! The guy who just finished calling someone an "insufferable, feminist, partisan hack" and a "foul human being" is now advocating that other portray his preferred politician with "less bias". Can it get any more hypocritical than this? I wonder why some people think that others have a responsibility to claim that all ideas are worthy of equal consideration. If you believe that Steele deserves more positive coverage, then feel free to create your own website and write whatever in the world you believe on there. 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Also if a certain group of people want there own BLACK NATION wait 10 years and when we explore other planets such as Mars then you and your ignorant people can have just that. To me we are all equalls. I know that African Americans weren't treated rightfully in the past but lets end this with peace not pointing fingers of errors in wrong doing years ago. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Ismael Alucard II EMAIL: Ismael_Alucard2006@yahoo.com IP: 69.205.58.89 URL: DATE: 12/09/2006 05:14:57 PM I don't understand all this racial stuff. Infact it confuses me because we all worship the same God and we should know that there is not a white heaven or black heaven we all go to the same place when our time comes. The other thing people is that for over 100 years we all fought for equality but keep on segergating ourselves. Think about it? When we introduce a person as a friend why do some say" Here is my black friend stephen" Why can't it just be said my friend stephen or who ever it is. You know for a brief time 5 years ago on September 11th , 2001 race didn't matter. We all worked together through a horrible time then months later we went back to being ignorant people. And lets look at Interacial relationships, I find no problem with people loving one another no matter who or what we are. No body is going to force me to love a white woman because I am white or If I am black a black woman. What matters is who the person is inside not the color outside. Also if a certain group of people want there own BLACK NATION wait 10 years and when we explore other planets such as Mars then you and your ignorant people can have just that. To me we are all equalls. I know that African Americans weren't treated rightfully in the past but lets end this with peace not pointing fingers of errors in wrong doing years ago. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Ismael Alucard II EMAIL: Ismael_Alucard2006@yahoo.com IP: 69.205.58.89 URL: DATE: 12/10/2006 07:35:45 AM Life isn't that hard. Yes we work and enjoy the fruits of our labors and we play the blamming game. Who is the Evil of this world? Maybe we are because we don't practise what we preach. Nobody wants to talk. All they do is fight with arms. Or launch lawsuits that make no sense. When your civilrights are violated what happens? You launch a lawsuit and win a million dollars,yet the problem is still there. So what does this do? Nobody wants to help eachother. You know it is funny that we have the most powerful laws in the land like the CONSTITUTION but because corruption is so bad we let the dirt keep on building. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Ismael Alucard II EMAIL: Ismael_Alucard2006@yahoo.com IP: 69.205.58.89 URL: DATE: 12/10/2006 07:49:30 AM Lets look at the political parties out there. So many of them. We have a African American Republican party just as we have a demcratic one. WHY? Looks like we want issues solved but what is the truth? The Constitution never talks about whether you are a democrat or republican. The constitution was written for the people. And lets stop this non sense that it was written for the white man because they were slave owners. It is true that some were but not all of them where. Did you know that atleast 2 writers of the constitution were GAY. So the truth is it was written for all not just some. We think that way because we allow ignorant people tell us what to say and what to do. You know my 3 keys in life are. 1: Keeping the peace with ourself and others. 2: Keeping peace with ourself and others. and finally 3: Forgiving ourself and others. We talk about forgivness all the time but do we trully forgive? Forgivness is from the heart. Life isn't easy but like you I do my best to make the best out of it. 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    The Patriot Act’s requirement that librarians disclose the books that individuals have borrowed gives us a lesson in the importance of books. The FBI’s interest in who is reading what is only the most recent evidence that books are both important ways of transmitting ideas and important signifiers of which ideas readers find important. It is not just law enforcement that is interested in reading habits, however. We are hearing a great deal about the project of “the history of the Book” these days. It aims to understand the role of books as vehicles of change: how do books contribute to changes in society, how do they help to create and sustain identity.
   Sometimes historians look at books, to measure a culture. What does Invisible Man say about the culture of the United States on the eve of Brown? What do Booker T. Washington’s Up From Slavery and W.E.B. DuBois’ Souls of Black Folk say about Jim Crow?
   At other times, historians draw inferences about people from their libraries. This post talks about a list of about 120 books on the "black experience" that Judge Don Young ordered to be placed into the Marion, Ohio prison library back in 1972, Taylor v. Perini, 413 F.Supp. 189, 215-19 (D.C. Ohio 1976). What interests me about the list is its potential for mapping the sources of identity in the late 1960s and early 1970s. What, then, are the books that the judge ordered added? More below the fold.

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The Harlem renaissance and its leaders are well-represented: W.E.B. DuBois’ Souls of Black Folk; Richard Wright’s Native Son and Uncle Tom’s Children; James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man; Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem (1928) along with some other Renaissance-era literature, like Rudolph Fisher’s Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Harlem (1932) and Walls of Jericho (1928)). Situated between the renaissance and the 1960s is Invisible Man.

There is the early 1960s literature that captured the possibilities of the Civil Rights movement: Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land; Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969); King’s Where Do We Go From Here, The Trumpet of Conscience, Stride Toward Freedom (1958), and Why We Can’t Wait; Alan Westin’s Freedom Now! The Civil-Rights Struggle in America (1964); and Howard Zinn’s SNCC: The New Abolitionists (1968). I might also put John Killen’s And then We Heard Thunder (1964), James Baldwin’s Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone (1968); John Alfred Williams’ The Man Who Cried I Am (1967) in that category–they are situated in a place between the optimism of the Civil Rights era and the later separatism. They ask, with King, what now?

Then there’s the literature that represents the transition to black power, as well as disillusionment with the Civil Rights movement or western society more generally, such as Franz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth (1961) and White Skin, Black Mask (1952); Tom Hayden, Rebellion in Newark; Benjamin Muse, American Negro Revolution: From Non-Violence to Black Power, 1963-1967 (1968); Chuck Stone, Black Political Power in America (1970); Harold Cruce, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967); Louise Meriwether’s My Daddy was a Numbers Runner (1969)). Along those lines, is literature that provides a popular, sociological critique of 1960s society, like Charles Silverman, Crisis in Black and White (1963). And there’s the literature that continued in the late 1960s and early 1970s to seek an answer in more traditional or different places, like Kenneth Clark’s Dark Ghetto (1967).

As you would expect, there are many on black power: Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice; Autobiography of Malcom X; Amiri Baraka, Home: Social Essays (1966); H. Rap Brown, Die N–r Die! A Political Autobiography; Lester Julius’ Look Out Whitey, Black Power’s Gon Get Your Mama; Bobby Seale, Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton. Maybe I’d put Angela Davis, If They Come in the Morning (1971) into this category. And I guess Cecil Brown, Lives and Loves of Mr. Jive-Ass N–r, too. Prison literature, like George L. Jackson’s Blood in My Eye, is surprisingly rare in this collection.

    There are a lot of histories: DuBois’ Black Reconstruction; John Hope Franklin’s From Slavery to Freedom and Reconstruction, Emancipation Proclamation, and Reconstruction; Franklin Frazier’s Negro Family in the United States (1968); Edward Cronon, Black Moses: Marcus Garvey (1960); David Levering Lewis’ King: A Critical Biography; Benjamin Quarrels’ Black Abolitionists, Mr. Lincoln and the Negroes; and The Negro in the Civil War; Kenneth Stampp’s The Peculiar Institution (1956); C. Vann Woodward’s The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955); Arthur I. Waskow, From Race Riot to Sit-In (1966); Herbert Aptheker’s Negro Slave Revolts (1943). Along with the histories are other scholarly work that describe and analyze black culture, such as E.U. Essien-Udom’s Black Nationalism (1970); C. Eric Lincoln’s Black Muslims in America (1961); Henry A. Ploski’s Afro USA (1971); Marshall Stearns, The Story of Jazz (1970); Chuck Stone, Black Political Power in America; and Joseph R. Washington, Black Religion (1964); and other work that collects culture, such as Miles Mark Fisher, Negro Slave Song (1953); Arna Wendell Bontemps, American Negro Poetry (1963).

DuBois’ Black Reconstruction reminds us that there are books on Reconstruction by and for white people and books on Reconstruction by and for black people. Talk about segregation of memory! Jim Crow separated people intellectually, as well as physically and socially.

   Of course the classification scheme that I’ve imposed above says a lot about how I view the world of the 1960s and early 1970s, from the vantage of the early twenty-first century. I’m continuing to think about how to classify the books. And as the classifications grow, I find that I want to put books into several categories. It’ll be interesting to see what readers think about the classifications.

   There’s a lot more to say about this; prison officials responded that they already had a lot of literature on the black experience in America in their collection. Might be worth comparing the two lists. For example, Booker T. Washington’s Up From Slavery appears on the prison’s list. But nothing like it is to be found on the court’s list of books to be added. One other quick observation: it’s surprising what isn’t in that list. For instance, I would have expected more James Baldwin.

The special master, Vincent Nathan (who used to teach at the University of Toledo Law School), was kind enough to correspond with me about how the list of books was assembled. He remembers that it came from a group of law librarians. The list may, thus, say more about the intellectual interests of librarians than about the needs or attitudes of the plaintiff class. But even then I think it's informative of what people thought ought to be included on a list of the "black experience." Much left to talk about here.

----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: E.C. Hopkins EMAIL: IP: 71.220.155.122 URL: http://www.maxambit.com DATE: 11/11/2006 04:36:37 PM With only a few exceptions, such as the classic works by Fanon, the books listed appear to represent an early attempt to construct a modest African American Canon. Canons are difficult to develop. The hardest step might be determining the group of people who should be brought together in order to answer a few initial questions. 1) For whom would the canon be developed? 2) What might be achieved by reading its works? 3) How would the proposed works be measured and ranked against one another? 4) Which factors would drive the decisions concerning which works should be left out? Responsible canon development, for or by any audience, seems as though it would be daunting. Regarding the task of categorizing, I would recommended using an approach similar to that used by Ronald Hutchings and Mortimer Adler in order to develop the Great Books of the Western World series. The major categories they used were a) novels, short stories, plays and poetry; b) philosophy and religion; c) history, politics, economics, ethics; and d) mathematics and natural sciences. Since most canonical books written about the African American experience would not focus on mathematics and natural sciences, perhaps the fourth category could be replaced with one that focuses on works in fields that synthesize or borrow heavily from other social sciences and literature, such as sociology, psychology, and race theory. If a qualified group were to update this African American Canon, I think it could be made better and smaller. I also think some outstanding works published during or after the 1970s are much better than some works listed in the post. Marable’s How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America, Thomas Sowell’s Race and Economics, and August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and Fences rush to my mind. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: E.C. Hopkins EMAIL: IP: 71.220.155.122 URL: http://www.maxambit.com DATE: 11/11/2006 04:48:02 PM Correction: in my comment above "Ronald Hutchings" should be Robert Hutchins. Oops. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Al EMAIL: abrophy@law.ua.edu IP: 130.160.232.157 URL: DATE: 11/11/2006 05:09:53 PM E.C. Hopkins--thanks so much for the suggestions. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Orin Kerr EMAIL: okerr@law.gwu.edu IP: 75.31.242.96 URL: DATE: 11/11/2006 10:13:51 PM The Patriot Act’s requirement that librarians disclose the books that individuals have borrowed gives us a lesson in the importance of books. The FBI’s interest in who is reading what is only the most recent evidence that books are both important ways of transmitting ideas and important signifiers of which ideas readers find important.

Books are obviously extremely important, but if you will allow me a technical correction, let me offer one: the statement about the Patriot Act is false. The Patriot Act does not mention books or library records. Rather, a lobbying group in DC realized that a general law that allows the government to compel information could in theory be used to access library records, and they waged a very effective campaign to create a public perception that the Patriot Act has a "library records" provision. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Orin Kerr EMAIL: okerr@law.gwu.edu IP: 75.31.242.96 URL: DATE: 11/11/2006 10:15:42 PM A technical correction to my technical correction: I should have said "misleading," not "false," in that it's not clear that you're saying that this is a specific provision vs. a general requirement. Sorry about that. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: EMAIL: IP: 67.191.75.252 URL: DATE: 11/13/2006 09:44:05 AM the patriot act or some act did hit the library...I wanted to volunteer at the library in Miami for its litracy program and they did a background check on me... ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Cadwallader EMAIL: florence97@azftayii.com IP: 212.200.120.147 URL: http://bridgenews.org/Members/johngray/john.html DATE: 11/30/2006 03:35:16 AM Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail... Cadwallader ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Cadwallader EMAIL: florence97@azftayii.com IP: 66.98.134.34 URL: http://bridgenews.org/Members/johngray/john.html DATE: 11/30/2006 03:35:39 AM Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail... Cadwallader ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Judith EMAIL: william39@qebgouul.com IP: 201.25.81.54 URL: http://eport.tafevc.com.au/Members/johngray/john.html DATE: 11/30/2006 02:12:22 PM Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you... Judith ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Judith EMAIL: william39@qebgouul.com IP: 201.48.95.97 URL: http://eport.tafevc.com.au/Members/johngray/john.html DATE: 11/30/2006 02:12:53 PM Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you... Judith ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Judith EMAIL: william39@qebgouul.com IP: 59.93.128.8 URL: http://eport.tafevc.com.au/Members/johngray/john.html DATE: 11/30/2006 02:13:00 PM Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you... Judith ----- -------- AUTHOR: pbutler TITLE: Church Parking - The Sequel STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 0 CONVERT BREAKS: tinymce ALLOW PINGS: 1 DATE: 11/10/2006 10:54:36 AM ----- BODY:

A few months ago I posted this somewhat overwrought comment about church parking. I was exercised about unfriendly rich white folks moving into previously working class African American neighborhoods in DC and then complaining when the salt of the earth Negroes double park to attend their Sunday morning worship services.

I think this is called poetic justice. Couple of Sundays ago, it’s early in the morning, I have two hungry youngsters in tow, and decide to go to the Paradise Saint’s Cafeteria, which has the best cheap breakfast in Washington DC. It’s operated by a church in one of the neighborhoods I was writing about. So I park, enjoy a great breakfast, and when we come out...my car is blocked in by a long row of cars who have double parked.

White guy walking dog comes out of house, says "hello," and seeing our dilemma gives us a big sympathetic smile. Black churchgoer also walks down the street and points out the church where the offending double parkers worship (it’s not the church that operates the Paradise Saint’s Cafeteria).

I go to the church and tell the white gloved usher lady about my problem and give her the identifying information about the car, which has Virginia license plates. She says that she will inform the pastor, but she doesn’t know when he will be able to "break the service" to make the announcement. I ask her to please hurry, restless kids, yadda yadda yadda.

45 minutes later, after much singing, praying, and praising of God by the congregation, and much complaining to the ushers by me, the announcement is made. The Virginia driver comes out immediately, is very apologetic, but I am empissurated. It should not have taken so long for Pastor to get around to being a good neighbor.

I guess I had it coming.

----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Vincent EMAIL: IP: 38.113.90.254 URL: DATE: 11/10/2006 12:38:20 PM People like laws that protect them from other people, yet dislike laws that protect other people from them. This applies to parking as well. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Paul EMAIL: IP: 68.22.78.188 URL: DATE: 11/10/2006 12:50:32 PM What is the etymology of empissurated? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Confused EMAIL: IP: 70.35.20.196 URL: DATE: 11/10/2006 01:06:30 PM I read the original post, and I don't understand how there are even two sides to this. Because people are going to church, they get to park illegally? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: LB EMAIL: barbersview@yahoo.com IP: 208.59.118.90 URL: http://lashawnbarber.com DATE: 11/10/2006 01:25:00 PM It's a racial double-standard thing, Confused. You wouldn't understand. [sarcasm off] ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: E.C. Hopkins EMAIL: IP: 71.220.155.122 URL: http://www.maxambit.com DATE: 11/10/2006 04:09:19 PM ”What is the etymology of empissurated?” I am curious about this word as well (assuming the above-quoted question was not satirically rhetorical). I’ve never seen the English word empissurate. Is it a recently coined neologism? Is it legalese that I might learn of in law school next year? If it is a neologism, then in addition to the context in which the word was used, there are morphological cues that might inform us of its etymology: the prefix em-, the suffix -ate, and pissur, which looks very similar to the French slang word pisser and probably sounds similar to the French pisser when nestled between the aforementioned affixes and uttered by American English speakers. English diglots or polyglots who also use French and, perhaps, drink a lot of absinthe during their visits to France, might know the slang French verb pisser (to urinate). This French verb has a rich history that reaches back over a millennium and might have been introduced to Old English speakers after the Normans, speaking a French dialect, conquered England in the early 11th Century. English speakers occasionally use vulgar synonyms for “urine” and “urinate” in order to express our feelings of discontent. And, we modern English speakers often use French words, in lieu of their more common English synonyms, when we desire to chic things up a bit. If empissurated is a chic neologism and is synonymous with the more vulgar expression, “p***ed off,” which ironically appears to be linked to a vulgar French word, then I think it’s a delightful new word. If it has been around for a while, then I request information about the dictionary in which a good lexicographer authored a decent entry for it. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Craka Smasha EMAIL: IP: 71.109.35.193 URL: DATE: 11/10/2006 11:32:37 PM You may need to come back to the hood to learn how to deal with situations like this. I know being a bourgeois intellectual will make it hard for you but you gotta learn how to get people's attention, especially white people. First off, you needed to inform the usher of the church of your dilemma and that he will need to inform the pastor that an announcement will need to be made. If that does not work, then you will need to inform the usher that if the pastor is unable or unwilling to do it, then you yourself will have to make the announcement repeatedly from the rear of the church untill the perpetrator is willing to move the car immediately. whites have a history of ignoring Black peoples' concerns (400+ years of enslavement and mistreatment). It is time they learn the reality of the noble cause of "No Justice, No Peace". Reality and consequences hurt, it's time they be taught. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Supremacy Claus EMAIL: supremacyclaus@yahoo.com IP: 71.224.222.153 URL: DATE: 11/11/2006 01:11:18 AM Prof. Butler: Funny story. A lot of law review articles written by topnotch profs have a virginal quality, as if they had never been to court for themselves. In the spirit of experiencing what a professor proposes for others, have you ever been a party to a lawsuit or criminal matter? Or, are you still a tribunal virgin as most profs seem to be? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Abe Q EMAIL: IP: 65.34.171.108 URL: DATE: 11/11/2006 09:40:49 PM I still don't understand why people don't go to Services in their own neighborhood. Blacks leave DC for the suburubs, whites move in. The people from the burbs drive into the city, double parking, wanting to park on school playgrounds, and being a nuisance to the people who live in the neighborhood. Imagine if it were reversed? Imagine if a bunch of white people drove to Anacostia for their services and demanded to park wherever they damn well pleased. Only in DC are the people who live in the neighborhoods the racists, and the interlopers from out of town in the right. I guess it matters what color they are. Abe Q (GW Law Class of 98 (I hate Cotroll for Crim Law and Che for Crim Pro). ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Supremacy Claus EMAIL: supremacyclaus@yahoo.com IP: 71.224.209.202 URL: DATE: 11/11/2006 10:31:44 PM Abe: What about Orin Kerr? An engineering degree makes cult adherence to supernatural doctrines especially unforgivable. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: EMAIL: IP: 68.48.139.196 URL: DATE: 11/12/2006 03:54:16 PM Um, craka smasha, you're missing the point. The offending church goer was black, not white. The situation in this part of DC involves black churces that are located in areas of the city that are becoming increasingly gentrified. Many of the new residents are white and they rightly object to the longstanding practice of the black church goers double parking during their sunday services, a practice which has been met by utter indifference by our largely incompetent city government. Interestingly, virtually all of the church goers moved to the suburbs years ago when the drug dealers moved in and they now only return for sunday services. The area has been largely revived by whites (including many wealthy gay white men, despite facing virulent homophobia from their black neighbors) which seems to tick off the suburban black church goers who feel entitled to double park while their at church. Given how nasty this issue has become (largely based on the racism and homophobia directed by the churches toward their neighbors), I can't say I feel the leasst bit bad about a person who endorses this double parking practice seeing how absurd it really is. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Craka Smasha EMAIL: IP: 71.109.35.193 URL: DATE: 11/12/2006 10:44:49 PM Thank you for the correction. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: madlibrarian EMAIL: IP: 68.50.215.68 URL: DATE: 11/15/2006 09:08:14 PM The law is the law. If you are not legally parked than you should get a ticket. I myself am a memeber of one of the churches in DC that is now moving dues to parking and other issues. As a member of the church for 11 years I try hard to park legally I never double park and block someone. I don't want it done to me. If one of my own chruch members did it to me I would simply call the police, I don't have time for mess and real Christians shuld know better. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Ismael Alucard II EMAIL: Ismael_Alucard2006@yahoo.com IP: 69.205.58.89 URL: DATE: 12/10/2006 08:32:49 AM The topic in Religion is shakey but I have to make a comment. Whether you are Black,white or any other race does it matter? Gods word is just that Gods word. People talk about jesus being black or any other race doesn't care to me because we are children of God. There is no Heaven for whites or blacks. We are all the same when that time comes. God created all these races for a good reason. Not to segergate our selves but to worship and work together. I think also it was a test to see how we as humans can relate but the past thousands of years we just keep thinking we are better then this one or that. Also its amazing if you donate large sums of money these people think they have an automatic pass to the promise land but my friends it doesn't work that way. And since we are on the subject of charity why do some when they donate millions or thousands or hundreds of dollars write it off at the end of the year on the so called income taxes. I thought charity comes from the heart without strings attached. I do respect the ones who help truly from there heart but they are a very few. Look around you. Racial tensions, disgruntal hip hop stars who write songs about violence and then they show up in church with a suit and a bling bling watch and put in the collection plate a nice so called donation but some not all walk a narrow path. The same for them racist country singers who think they will be saved but are sighted at a function against black families in the residence and schools. So how can these people be saved? Why because you are sorry for what you say and do and God will forgive your racist ways and tells you its ok>>>oh please asking for true forgiveness is like love from the heart. One must be true not false. ----- PING: TITLE: Bibles Discount Church URL: http://www.shoplearn.info/ IP: 66.79.167.230 BLOG NAME: Bibles Discount Church DATE: 08/29/2007 08:18:22 PM and in special seasons of the Church year at a 30% discount. US $8.00 (discount a ----- -------- AUTHOR: soverton TITLE: Wrong Question: Do YOU believe "Harold, call me" was racist? STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 0 CONVERT BREAKS: tinymce ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: politics & voting rights CATEGORY: politics & voting rights DATE: 11/10/2006 09:08:55 AM ----- BODY:

Johanna Goldsmith Harold Ford lost to Bob Corker 48% to 51%. In the aftermath of the big election, Johanna Goldsmith, the blond actress who says “Call me,” claims that the ad was not racist in this news article. She explains that she has “dated all nationalities.” Outgoing GOP chair Ken Mehlman has a similar take. Others claim the ad was racist.

This is the wrong debate. The question is not whether Johanna Goldsmith or Ken Mehlman found the ad objectionable to their own personal tastes (indeed, by personally finding the ad unobjectionable they portray themselves as fair minded). Instead, there are two other important questions.

The first is an empirical political science question: Did the ad alienate 3% of the Tennessee electorate from Harold Ford because, consciously or subconsciously, they were uncomfortable with the image of a black man sexually engaged with a white woman?

The second is a normative question. In the dirty world of politics, when is the subtle use of race that pushes the buttons of a subset of the electorate inappropriate?

Democrats are not the only targets of this political strategy. In 2000, Republican Arizona Senator John McCain fell victim to a GOP presidential primary whispering campaign that he fathered a black child (in fact, McCain and his wife adopted a daughter from South Asia). And a relatively small percentage of rural white Tennessee voters are not the only ones who might be prompted to abandon Harold Ford because of the ad. The image of Harold Ford with a white woman might discourage some African American voters from going to the polls (an appreciation of the racial strategy of the ad may have also motivated a larger number of African Americans to go to the polls in support of Ford).

I have not run a study to determine the answer to the empirical question—and perhaps no study could conclusively determine the conscious and subconscious thought processes of 3% of Tennessee voters.

But my main point is this-- the question of whether a particular individual “feels” or “believes” that the anti-Harold Ford ads were racist or not racist is irrelevant. The questions are whether the ad moved the needle three percentage points, and whether it did so in a way that was out of bounds. ----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: the dissent EMAIL: IP: 70.21.73.3 URL: DATE: 11/10/2006 09:41:24 AM Did the ad alienate 3% of the Tennessee electorate from Harold Ford…? Yes. It alienated well over 3%. Racism is alive and well in Tennessee. A follow-up question for me, though, is whether the people capable of being alienated by this racist ad would have voted for Harold Ford in the absence of the ad. I think not. In the dirty world of politics, when is the subtle use of race that pushes the buttons of subset of the electorate inappropriate? It’s always inappropriate. Republicans should be ashamed. But shame is not one of the ingredients that make up a successful politician. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Spencer EMAIL: IP: 69.250.39.22 URL: DATE: 11/10/2006 10:00:54 AM It is possible that some people would have considered voting for Harold Ford in the absence of the ad. The following is from The Washington Post: COALMONT, Tenn. -- John Layne is a 57-year-old white Republican with a long gray beard, no job and advancing emphysema. He arrived an hour early to hear Harold Ford Jr. speak in this struggling mountain town. "Oh, sure, there's some prejudice," Layne said as he contemplated casting a ballot for a black man. "I wouldn't want my daughter marrying one." But he's more concerned about rising medical costs: When it comes to voting, "you gotta look at the person, not the color." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/24/AR2006102401476.html ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Spencer EMAIL: IP: 69.250.39.22 URL: DATE: 11/10/2006 10:14:00 AM Just a follow up to my previous post . . . I don't know how many people would have voted for Harold but for the ad, or how many additional people went to the polls to vote for Harold because they were enraged by the ad. My point is that this is a question of empirical fact, rather than a question that can be answered based my opinion, or the opinion of Ken Mehlman or Johanna Goldsmith. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: JM EMAIL: Jmitc1014@aol.com IP: 71.10.225.76 URL: DATE: 11/10/2006 10:26:20 AM Another key empirical question: Intent. Was it the intent of the makers to move that needle in that particular direction using race in the way that they did? Johanna G is in no position to obfuscate about intent, but I suspect Mehlman is a liar. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: E.C. Hopkins EMAIL: IP: 71.220.155.122 URL: http://www.maxambit.com DATE: 11/10/2006 10:27:12 AM If Corker’s tactic (I’ll not assume that Corker did not bless the ad) was necessary for his win, then I’m not disappointed in Corker, I’m disappointed in Tennessee citizens. And, if it was necessary, then this tactic could not have been inappropriate for Corker’s Camp, as it helped Tennessee citizens put the person in office who best reflects their educations, values, and ideologies. Citizens determine whether “the subtle use of race that pushes the buttons of a subset of the electorate” is inappropriate or appropriate by their votes. If the ad influenced the outcome of the election, then it either helped Corker enough to make him the Senator-elect or did not hurt him enough to make Ford the Senator-elect. So I think an answer to the empirical political science question could also answer the normative question. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: the dissent EMAIL: IP: 70.21.73.3 URL: DATE: 11/10/2006 10:47:03 AM Professor Overton, I concede that there were some voters racist enough to be swayed by the ad, but not so racist that they would have avoided voting for a black man in its absence. The fears, I guess, were buried so deep that it took a television ad to dredge them from the recesses of voters’ minds. But were there 50,000 such voters? I doubt it. That’s just a guess. I agree that this is an empirical question, not a question of Ken Mehlman’s opinion. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: anthony EMAIL: IP: 68.33.179.229 URL: http://www.theipinionsjournal.com DATE: 11/10/2006 12:24:06 PM Fair point Prof Overton; and I suspect it may have moved that needle as your question implies. Nonetheless, I think those who protested this ad made it far more racially significant than those who produced it intended (or could have hoped for). But I do not think this ad was any where near as “out of bounds” as Democrats putting Joe Lieberman in black face or calling black Republican Michael Steele an Uncle Tom. For example, I think the “Call me” tag line was no more cynical or racially pernicious than Barack Obama telling black people in Maryland “don’t vote for Steele just because of his skin color”, then flying down to Tennessee and telling black people there to vote for Harold Ford because “I’m feeling kinda lonely in the Senate”…. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Vincent EMAIL: IP: 38.113.90.254 URL: DATE: 11/10/2006 12:31:36 PM Whether the ad moved the needle determines whether it is out of bounds. So long as it is effective in doing so, it can and will be used. Politics seems to have the boundry of its effects. Let's say some of us determine the ad was out of bounds. So what? Do we have the power to restrict that type of speech? If so do you really want to?
The ad can be used as a barometer of how the electorate thinks as well. If you are against the thought of Ford with a White woman, you were probably not going to vote for him. If the ad energized voters to turn out so be it. I rather those who are against me and what I am about to be upfront about it. Driving the discussion underground (what limiting speech does), curtails the debate.
This type of ad and the accompanying belief system are not things we can change. There are so many things that we can change. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Cobb EMAIL: cobb@mdcbowen.org IP: 69.163.120.82 URL: http://cobb.typepad.com DATE: 11/10/2006 07:49:11 PM The question is whether it was racist enough to motivated people who were not racist to become racist. Which is to say if you are racist enough to think about not voting for Ford because he's black, what difference does this ad make? None. But if you are not racist, how do three little words make you racist? This is the question and it doesn't have a politically significant answer, because really the only people who care are the people who are so race-conscious in the first place that they believe it does. None of which has anything to do with real issues that real candidates were really campaigning about. This is all about determining the most cogent way to bring some aspect of race into the game of political punditry at which a significant fraction of black intellectuals have investments and skills. The people don't care. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Lester Spence EMAIL: unbowed@gmail.com IP: 69.255.249.24 URL: http://blacksmythe.com/blog DATE: 11/10/2006 10:15:12 PM The Race Card by Tali Mendelberg. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: cmoney EMAIL: IP: 68.48.19.250 URL: DATE: 11/10/2006 10:23:47 PM Of course the ad appealed to racist stereotypes and the opinion of the actress in the ad is irrelevant. However---the ad was true. Harold Ford does date white women. There are pictures all over the Web of him on dates with white women. Is that relevant? In my opinion, no (at least he wasn't chasing 16 year old boys)and it had no place in the campaign. The reason it resonated is because there are people who will react to it and because Harold Ford couldn't come out and deny the implication in the ad. He got "swiftboated". The only good that came out of this is that the racist nature of the ad, sponsored by the RNC completely undercut the efforts of Michael Steele in Maryland to woo Black voters to the GOP. His party's racist past (and present) scuttled his chances of getting enough Black votes to win election in Maryland. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Craka Smasha EMAIL: IP: 71.109.35.193 URL: DATE: 11/10/2006 11:43:05 PM If Ford and the dems believe Black men dating white women is a problem for their Black candidates getting elected, then Ford will need to date and/or, god forbid, marry a Black woman. Problem solved. whites have always sought out reasons and excuses to control and dislike Black people. Question: why would a Black man want to date a white woman in public anyway? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: EMAIL: IP: 68.158.6.25 URL: DATE: 11/11/2006 09:46:52 AM Craka Smasha, As a brother, please don't be a racist and loop all white women in the same category. For example, Baltic and Russian women are extremely attractive and some have hip/buttocks ratios that rival sistas. And these women can speak several languages, handle tools, roll with you and don't snitch either unlike weak sistas who plea bargain for 15 years to send a bro up the river. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: iomega EMAIL: iomega@earthlink.com IP: 138.238.13.95 URL: DATE: 11/11/2006 12:34:22 PM Overton, et al.: By admitting that that there is a "dirty world" of politics, your point becomes less significant. It's like asking a pig who wallows in mud whether it intends to use its new gift of Ivory soap. The nature of dirty politics unfortunately clouds good and evil, confusing both with mixed motives. Additionally, there is a utilitarian ethic that is often employed in politics: means that justify the end. Lawyers know all too well about this strategy--so please don't portray innocence, virtue or surprise about all of this--borders on the Archimedian perspectives that often linger here.... The insightful point made by cmoney above (regarding the behavior of seemingly "salvific" Obama in the closing days of the election)shows just how chameleon-like politicians (and lawyer minds) can be. The real question is whether professional Washingtonians (and other elites) are a part of the problem, or solution. These are the hard questions that many on this blog refuse to ask of themselves and their constituents. With the transfer of power in Congress, we should expect that "kinder, gentler" forms of political manipulation based on race, sex, religion, and party affiliation are on the horizon. Stay tuned.... ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: iomega EMAIL: IP: 138.238.13.95 URL: DATE: 11/11/2006 12:37:08 PM I should note a correction in the post above: "ends that justify the means" ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: iomega EMAIL: IP: 207.69.138.8 URL: DATE: 11/12/2006 05:11:39 PM Correction: it's the comment by Anthony that is significant, not the one by cmoney--been a long weekend. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: t EMAIL: t@cs.com IP: 67.191.75.252 URL: DATE: 11/12/2006 09:16:47 PM Harold did this to himself! He should have known "they"(and that is a euphemism) get you everytime... ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: elb1999 EMAIL: ebevel@yahoo.com IP: 199.33.129.101 URL: DATE: 11/13/2006 03:33:27 PM We just can't accept the fact that a democrat (a black one), ran a good race in a solidly conservative state and lost by only 3 points. Meanwhile in a slightly less conservative state (Virginia), it took a converted republican turned conservative democrat to win by the skin of his balls.......But we just have to find the racial angle to satisfy our racial obsession with white folks don't we? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: KN EMAIL: IP: 67.180.42.113 URL: DATE: 11/13/2006 10:21:49 PM If there is going to be an empirical study of the ad's effect, I would like to point out there is a potential confounding factor: The ad (which I DO think was a deliberate effort to stoke racist anxiety about interracial relationships) may ALSO have served to heavily publicize Ford's attendance at a Playboy-sponsored party. At least I was concerned about the campaign when I heard Ford had defended himself by saying "I like football and girls" (plus later having the irony of Bill Clinton defending these remarks as the best of the campaign!) I would have thought the only TN-safe response would've been for Ford to dissociate himself from the sponsor. I haven't heard a single commentator (other than Jon Stuart on the Daily Show) question the prudence of Ford's response. But (speaking as someone who was born and raised in TN), I would be surprised if religious sensibilities (as well as racist ones) didn't come into play. My instinct on this could be wrong of course. (In fact, my white bible-believing relatives in TN still voted for Ford.) But I think it's worth throwing into the analysis as a possible factor. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Kirsten EMAIL: IP: 67.180.42.113 URL: DATE: 11/13/2006 10:23:48 PM If there is going to be an empirical study of the ad's effect, I would like to point out there is a potential confounding factor: The ad (which I DO think was a deliberate effort to stoke racist anxiety about interracial relationships) may ALSO have served to heavily publicize Ford's attendance at a Playboy-sponsored party. At least I was concerned about the campaign when I heard Ford had defended himself by saying "I like football and girls" (plus later having the irony of Bill Clinton defending these remarks as the best of the campaign!) I would have thought the only TN-safe response would've been for Ford to dissociate himself from the sponsor. I haven't heard a single commentator (other than Jon Stuart on the Daily Show) question the prudence of Ford's response. But (speaking as someone who was born and raised in TN), I would be surprised if religious sensibilities (as well as racist ones) didn't come into play. My instinct on this could be wrong of course. (In fact, my white bible-believing relatives in TN still voted for Ford.) But I think it's worth throwing into the analysis as a possible factor. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Gandalf Mantooth EMAIL: tetsuwanatom1@gmail.com IP: 71.228.199.206 URL: http://dorknation.wordpress.com DATE: 11/15/2006 03:40:29 AM His response was received very positively KN. It probably saved a few votes. I don't think Playboy mag is necessarily a TN specific problem. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Miss Charlotte EMAIL: rmustafa_1@netzero.com IP: 69.132.219.74 URL: DATE: 11/16/2006 02:21:36 AM The fact of the matter is that Ford did not appear wholesome to the southern traditional voters. Dem and Rep voters want to see traditional values displayed by their representatives and that is tied up in family life and marriage. Ford will need to appear settled and somewhat happy in order for voters to embrace him in the deep south. Image is everything and I am sure he can find a smart girl in Tenn to walk down the idle or at least fiancée. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Daley EMAIL: IP: 208.121.90.208 URL: DATE: 11/28/2006 08:48:46 PM Good article, I totally agree. For a race of this magnitude, are there really no tracking polls that could be examined in the days just before the ad aired, and then in the days following it? There may be other confounding factors to poll shifts... if so, I'm sure there are conservatives who would present them. It's not exactly a study, but I would find an X% poll shift in the 3-5 days following large scale media saturation of the ad very interesting. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: Daley EMAIL: daleydunham@gmail.com IP: 208.121.90.208 URL: DATE: 11/28/2006 08:49:17 PM Good article, I totally agree. For a race of this magnitude, are there really no tracking polls that could be examined in the days just before the ad aired, and then in the days following it? There may be other confounding factors to poll shifts... if so, I'm sure there are conservatives who would present them. It's not exactly a study, but I would find an X% poll shift in the 3-5 days following large scale media saturation of the ad very interesting. ----- PING: TITLE: Playboy Smiley URL: http://playboy-smiley.w3csoft.com/ IP: 72.36.228.50 BLOG NAME: Playboy Smiley DATE: 01/04/2007 06:35:43 PM ( blows breath on the window Cornel "nutty, bumblin' professor" West ac ----- -------- AUTHOR: soverton TITLE: Why a Virginia Recount is Unlikely to Go for Allen STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 0 CONVERT BREAKS: tinymce ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: politics & voting rights CATEGORY: politics & voting rights DATE: 11/08/2006 10:29:12 PM ----- BODY:

I’ve been thinking about things today, and I think that a number of factors suggest that there is not probable cause that a recount will produce a different outcome in the Webb/Allen U.S. Senate race.

1. The spread is too large. Florida 2000 involved an initial gap of 1,784 votes (eventually reduced to 537 after recounts) of about 6 million. Virginia 2006 involves a gap of about 7,200 votes of about 2.3 million votes cast.

2. Different voting technology. In Florida 2000, punch card ballots involved hanging chads that were open to interpretation. In 2006, Virginia uses various electronic machines, including DRE and optical scans (Diebold, Sequoia, UniLect, Advance Voting Solutions, Hart InterCivic and ES&S). It is unlikely that: 1) the error rate will be as high with these technologies (error rates on punch card ballots are about twice as high as optical scan error rates); and 2) many of the technologies do not produce a record like the punch cards that can be reviewed.

3. Correction of errors may favor Webb. Imperfections (improperly marked ballots, the need for a provisional ballots, and others) have in past elections occurred at a higher rate in lower socioeconomic areas, and it is very possible that a more searching examination of this election will increase Webb’s lead.

----- EXTENDED BODY: ----- EXCERPT: ----- KEYWORDS: ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: DC EMAIL: IP: 69.143.174.50 URL: DATE: 11/09/2006 08:47:24 AM I am a conservative and I voted for Allen. He needs to concede. It's the appropriate thing to do. ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: EMAIL: IP: 64.160.149.254 URL: DATE: 11/09/2006 01:08:34 PM Are the writers of this blob running out of material? The election is over, the dems won and now we can go back to sleep and wait for the next scandal. In the meantime aren't there other issues that deserve attention: Israel just slaughtered a family of Palestinians; Now that the dems are in charge how does that help Black people?; For our soupport of the dems how will they repay Black people specifically (quid pro quo)? ----- COMMENT: AUTHOR: cmoney EMAIL: IP: 68.48.19.250 URL: DATE: 11/09/2006 09:57:13 PM Excuse us while we gloat, anonymous! 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Gore II?: Virginia Election Irregularities and Recount Procedures STATUS: Publish ALLOW COMMENTS: 0 CONVERT BREAKS: tinymce ALLOW PINGS: 1 PRIMARY CATEGORY: politics & voting rights CATEGORY: politics & voting rights DATE: 11/08/2006 07:49:59 AM ----- BODY:

If Democrats squeak by in Montana, election irregularities and suppressive voting rules in Virginia could determine which party controls the U.S. Senate. With 99% of the votes tallied, Webb led by about 7,800 (of 2.3 million)—less than three-tenths of a percent.

(Of about 6 million Florida ballots cast in 2000, Bush lead Gore by 1,784 votes at the end election night, and later recounts reduced that margin to 537).

Virginians faced a variety of issues, including

*voter deception

*restrictive state voting laws

Voter Deception: State officials documented “dozens of phone calls that were made to heavily Democratic precincts in which the people who were receiving the calls were either given incorrect information about polling sites [or] misdirected about election laws.” One type of call asserted that voters were registered in another state, and thus voting in Virginia is illegal. Another type of call claimed that a voter’s polling place location changed. The FBI is investigating.

Suppressive Virginia election laws could end up determining the outcome.

For example, in Virginia, almost 300,000 Americans who have completely served their time (including probation and parole) are disenfranchised (up from 243,000 in 2000). VA is alone with FL, KY, and Armenia as the only democracies in the world that disenfranchise all categories of former felons for life, even after they have served their time (a burdensome restoration process results in voting privileges for less than 2% of these individuals). Eighty percent of Americans believe that people who have served their time should be able to vote. Virginia legislative history suggests that one purpose of the disenfranchisement law was to suppress the black vote. Fifteen percent of black Virginians are disenfranchised even though they’ve completely served their time, and African Americans overwhelmingly favored Webb. Republican Senator John Warner won his first U.S. Senate race as a result of this rule, as did the current Virginia Attorney General. (You'll remember that this rule may have also determined the 2000 election--experts predict that Gore would have won Florida by 30,000 votes but for Florida's lifetime disenfranchisement rule). Webb could be the next victim. Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner had an opportunity to restore voting rights to former offenders who had served their time, but failed to do so. Much more on Virginia disenfranchisement is here.

In Virginia, a ballot cast outside one’s precinct won’t be counted. Thus, imagine that you go to your normal polling place, you’re directed to one of several lines, you get up to the table and pollworkers tell you that you’re not on the list and direct you to cast a provisional ballot. That provisional ballot may not be counted if, unknowingly, your “proper” precinct was one of those other lines in the same polling place. The provisional ballots of thousands of legitimate Virginia voters may be discarded out as a result of this rule. According to this Election Assistance Commission document, in 2004 fewer than 16% of provisional ballots cast by Virginia voters were counted.

Misc: In Northern Virginia, Jim Webb’s last name did not appear on the summary page of some voting machines. Election Protection reports that “(Chesterfield) VA: He was a new voter. He showed his drivers license and voter registration card. He was told that was not enough ID. He showed his high school and college school IDs -- both photo IDs -- and was told that was not sufficient. He was told to produce a FEDERAL ID or he would not be permitted to vote (he was not offered the provisional ballot option). He luckily had his social security card with him, and when he showed that he was permitted to vote.”

Race: African Americans make up about 20% of the population in Virginia, but comprised only about 16% of the electorate in 2002 and about 15% in 2004.

Virginia Recount Procedures: I’ll provide more on this later. For now, go here for the code and here for Board of Election recount procedures. Also, periodically check Rick Hasen's blog and http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/ (Ohio State Univeristy Law School's election specialists) for updates.

Montana Recount Procedures are provided by Prof. Ned Foley here.

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The Virginia U.S. Senate race seems rather close. My research assistant pulled the following statutes in response to my questions. I'm going to look at the specific regs more closely to obtain clearer answers, but I wanted to share this initial sketch of Virginia law.

1) Is it a no-excuse absentee ballot state?
Excuse required. Source: Va. Code 24.2-700

2) Deadline for counting absentee ballots?
Before noon on the day following the election, the general registrar shall deliver all applications for absentee ballots for the election, under seal, to the clerk of the circuit court for the county or city. The clerk shall retain the sealed applications with the counted ballots. The secretary of the electoral board shall deliver all absentee ballots received after the election to the clerk of the circuit court. Source: Va. Code 24.2-710.
3) Deadline for counting provisional ballots?
The electoral board shall meet on the day following the election and determine whether each person having submitted such a provisional vote was entitled to do so as a qualified voter in the precinct in which he offered the provisional vote. If the board is unable to determine the validity of all the provisional ballots offered in the election, or has granted any voter who has offered a provisional ballot an extension to the following day as provided in subsection A, the meeting shall stand adjourned from day to day, not to exceed seven calendar days from the date of the election, until the board has determined the validity of all provisional ballots offered in the election. Source: Va. Code 24.2-654.
4) What is the state standard for determining whether a provisional ballot should be considered an eligible vote that should be counted? What is the basic procedure?
The electoral board shall meet on the day following the election and determine whether each person having submitted such a provisional vote was entitled to do so as a qualified voter in the precinct in which he offered the provisiona