Posted on 10/17/2004 7:05:26 PM PDT by hipaatwo
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Missouri's Republican Party wants a Democratic-aligned group to stop circulating a get-out-the-vote flier that includes a 1960s photograph of a firefighter hosing a black man that reads: "This is what they used to do to keep us from voting."
The America Coming Together handout accuses Republicans of conspiring to suppress the black vote through intimidation and such tactics as putting "phony cops at polling places - but only in African American neighborhoods."
"They make African-American voters stand in line for hours, then turn them away from the polls," the flier reads. "Now (U.S. Attorney General) John Ashcroft is trying to prevent African-Americans from registering to vote at all."
The Republican Party of Missouri called the fliers "racially charged" and said they were designed to obscure Republican efforts to increase black voting.
"This kind of false advertising aimed at African-Americans is clearly an attempt to intimidate and mislead voters," said Paul Sloca, a spokesman for the state GOP.
Sara Howard, ACT's Missouri spokeswoman, on Sunday defended the handouts as part of a voter-education effort. She said Republican concerns may stem from reports of increased voter registration among minorities.
"The Republican Party knows that generally when African-Americans vote in large numbers, Republicans lose," she said. "They will do everything in their power to try and prevent that from happening."
Howard said she was unaware if similar fliers are being distributed in other states.
ACT is an independent interest group funded by Democratic donors. The group has raised at least $86 million this election cycle for get-out-the-vote drives and other efforts.
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false advertising?? mislead???
Come on grow a spine and say it. SAY "THIS IS NOTHING BUT PURE LIES AND PROPAGANDA AND THERE WILL BE REPERCUSSIONS"
Although there won't be, because the GOP can't even use words tougher than 'false advertising' and 'mislead'.
If the photo is accurate, and really from the 1960s, that is a registered democrat and union member using the firehose to deny the African American his right to vote (and he probably wasn't calling him an African American either).
Why would the democrats wish to dredge up their own shameful past?
Someone please tell these black people that it was the DEMOCRATIC political machine supporters holding those water hoses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
True. Today's GOP leadership is full of girlie-men.
The biggest lie is about WHO these people were that directed the hoses and dogs to be used...DEMOCRATS!
Disgusting.
I'm sick and tired of the moronic charge that voters are intimidated if cops are stationed near polling places. I vote in the lobby of a school in New York. Like many New York City schools, there's a police officer regularly stationed there, even on election day. I guess, by liberal logic, my neighbors and I have been INTIMIDATED, too. Funny how I still voted against the NYC liberal establishment, anyway.
I'm sure you mean "Democrat"
The James Byrd sequel.
you know what, no offense to anyone, but if black voters want to vote for Pres Bush good, if they dont to hell with them...They want to be petted, begged and their behinies kissed....every time I see Kerry on TV he's somewhere hugging and kissing a black ...
they know that crap is lies and trash....they love to pretend its happening.....they want to keep living in that past to people will be intimidated to question their motives....
Pres Bush will win without kissing their butts .. he's shown hes not going too...
I agree. I will lose a great deal of what little faith I have left in the GOP if they fail to defend our election process from these traitors. They'd better be serious about this threat; as far as I'm concerned the election fraud and manipulation already being perpetrated is as dangerous as any other form of terrorism.
The nastiest thing about it. The pictures of the hosing of Blacks was done under the Democrats hegemony of the south.
does anyone have an email to the St. Louis GOP office??
Are blacks so dumb they can't see the con from the dems? Are they so dumb that they don't notice the dem runners for President never show up at their churches but once every 4 years. Come-on!! If I were black I would be totally insulted!
The solution to this is to create an opposing flyer that sets the record straight. Indignation does not win elections.
can we prove they were dems? we need to see the circular.
Low life, lying, scum.
Might even point out the fact that those folks behind the fire hoses were all Democrats...
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