Let’s say you’re one of the millions of Americans who have tasted the inevitable benefits of The Bush Economic Miracle, and you’re now living with your parents, in an apartment, or even in the Shruburbs because you lost your house. Naturally, you’ll be plenty pissed off at the way things have gone, and you’ll want to go down to the polls to make sure that the zombie and Sarahpoleon don’t give us 4 more years of Chimpy’s “trickle up” economics that have bled a hell of a lot of Americans dry. You, better than anyone, realize that the Gopper leaders simply despise anyone who isn’t like them; as in, a white multimillionaire living behind security gates way the hell away from the everyday world the rest of us have to live in.

You are exactly right, of course; the Gopper pols, Sarahpoleon included, have no use at all for the unwashed riff-raff, and they will give us a kick to the ass whenever the opportunity presents itself. If you happen to be one of the foreclosed, you’ll be getting YOUR kick to the ass when you try to vote this November. As you can see here, those crafty Goppers are taking care of two things at once with their economic policies; they’re kicking you down in the dirt where they think you belong, AND they’re shutting you up by disenfranchising you because you were a victim of Chimpy’s economic policies and don’t live at your old mailing address anymore.

Pretty damned clever, huh? Go ahead and bitch, peasant. Nobody, and I do mean NOBODY, is going to hear you.

Michigan Republicans plan to foreclose African American voters

The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.

“We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses,” party chairman James Carabelli told Michigan Messenger in a telephone interview earlier this week. He said the local party wanted to make sure that proper electoral procedures were followed.

State election rules allow parties to assign “election challengers” to polls to monitor the election. In addition to observing the poll workers, these volunteers can challenge the eligibility of any voter provided they “have a good reason to believe” that the person is not eligible to vote. One allowable reason is that the person is not a “true resident of the city or township.”

The Michigan Republicans’ planned use of foreclosure lists is apparently an attempt to challenge ineligible voters as not being “true residents.”

One expert questioned the legality of the tactic.

“You can’t challenge people without a factual basis for doing so,” said J. Gerald Hebert, a former voting rights litigator for the U.S. Justice Department who now runs the Campaign Legal Center, a Washington D.C.-based public-interest law firm. “I don’t think a foreclosure notice is sufficient basis for a challenge, because people often remain in their homes after foreclosure begins and sometimes are able to negotiate and refinance.”

As for the practice of challenging the right to vote of foreclosed property owners, Hebert called it, “mean-spirited.”

GOP ties to state’s largest foreclosure law firm

The Macomb GOP’s plans are another indication of how John McCain’s campaign stands to benefit from the burgeoning number of foreclosures in the state. McCain’s regional headquarters are housed in the office building of foreclosure specialists Trott & Trott. The firm’s founder, David A. Trott, has given at least $23,000 to McCain’s campaign and raised between $100,000 and $250,000 for the Republican nominee.

The Macomb County party’s plans to challenge voters who have defaulted on their house payments is likely to disproportionately affect African-Americans who are overwhelmingly Democratic voters. More than 60 percent of all sub-prime loans — the most likely kind of loan to go into default — were made to African-Americans in Michigan, according to a report issued last year by the state’s Department of Labor and Economic Growth.

Challenges to would-be voters

Statewide, the Republican Party is gearing up for a comprehensive voter challenge campaign, according to Denise Graves, party chair for Republicans in Genessee County, which encompasses Flint. The party is creating a spreadsheet of election challenger volunteers and expects to coordinate a training with the regional McCain campaign, Graves said in an interview with Michigan Messenger.

Whether the Republicans will challenge voters with foreclosed homes elsewhere in the state is not known.

Does anyone see something more than just this election afoot here? The Goppers are deliberately trying to return us to an era where only white property owners could vote. And each new election cycle will have fewer of THOSE than the last one. Permanent aristocracy lording it over the serfs is the ultimate goal here.The Klanservatives are very deliberately trying to cut minorities out of the political process, and they’re doing it, one “surgical strike” at a time.

Now all you dumbasses who are swayed by a phony “hockey mom” run right down to the polls and cut your own throats. Your children will thank you for it later.

Tags: 2008 election, disenfranchisement, housing crisis, michigan, republicans

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