Posted on 06/29/2007 7:08:56 PM PDT by Islander7
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A federal judge today (Friday) is ruling that whites' voting rights were violated in Noxubee County.
US District Judge Tom S- Lee's ruling comes six months after a two-week trial in January when Lee heard arguments from both the Justice Department and the Noxubee County Democrats.
The Justice Department had alleged the Noxubee County Democratic Party, its chairman Ike Brown and the county Election Commission practiced racial discrimination against white voters and candidates.
The Justice Department has called the situation in Noxubee County "the most extreme case of racial exclusion seen by the (department's) Voting Section in decades."
(Excerpt) Read more at wmcstations.com ...
Mainstream media going to talk about this......?
So they (local DEMOCRATIC PARTY politicians ) are excluding whites ....
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Details in the article would be nice.
Must be an extention of the “Black Belt” here in Bama..?
Agreed. I don't read what the offense was. What did the dems do wrong?
I grew up not far across the line from Macon and I've heard that the gentleman in question made some outrageous remarks.
“Mr. Brown is accused in the lawsuit and in supporting documents of paying and organizing notaries, some of whom illegally marked absentee ballots or influenced how the ballots were voted; of publishing a list of voters, all white, accompanied by a warning that they would be challenged at the polls; of importing black voters into the county; and of altering racial percentages in districts by manipulating the registration rolls.”
More info here
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5011333
And here. The New York News no less!
The Justice Departments main focus is Ike Brown, a local power broker whose imaginative electoral tactics have for 20 years caused whisperings from here to the state capital in Jackson, 100 miles to the southwest. Mr. Brown, tall, thin, a twice-convicted felon, the chairman of the Noxubee County Democratic Executive Committee and its undisputed political boss, is accused by the federal government of orchestrating with the help of others relentless voting-related racial discrimination against whites, whom blacks outnumber by more than 3 to 1 in the county.
His goal, according to the government: keeping black politicians ones supported by Mr. Brown, that is in office.
To do that, the department says, he and his allies devised a watertight system for controlling the all-determining Democratic primary, much as segregationists did decades ago.
Mr. Brown is accused in the lawsuit and in supporting documents of paying and organizing notaries, some of whom illegally marked absentee ballots or influenced how the ballots were voted; of publishing a list of voters, all white, accompanied by a warning that they would be challenged at the polls; of importing black voters into the county; and of altering racial percentages in districts by manipulating the registration rolls.
To run against the county prosecutor one of two white officeholders in Noxubee Mr. Brown brought in a black lawyer from outside the county, according to the supporting documents, who never even bothered to turn on the gas or electricity at his rented apartment. That candidate was disqualified.Whites, who make up just under 30 percent of the population here, are circumspect when discussing Mr. Brown, though he remains a hero to many blacks. When he drove off to federal prison to serve a sentence for tax fraud in 1995, he received a grand farewell from his political supporters and friends, including local elected officials; whites, on the other hand, for years have seen him as a kind of occult force in determining the affairs of the county.....
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This has been going on for a long time and Noxubee is only the first case to make it to court.
I wonder if Hillary has sent this guy a check yet, This is right down her alley.
“Whites, who make up just under 30 percent of the population here..”
Here too. I’m selling my house and moving. It’s become an increasingly hostile environment. It’s not as bad here as in Noxubee but they are working on it.
Thanks. NPR and the NYT? I’m surprised, to say the least.
“The Justice Department has called the situation in Noxubee County “the
most extreme case of racial exclusion seen by the (department’s)
Voting Section in decades.””
And destined for about zero coverage on ABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBC I suspect.
bump
sounds about right
Not only is Ike a twice-convicted felon but he managed to get a judge to reinstate his own voting rights. Still trying to figure that one out.
As a girl I heard my family talk of this kind of stuff.
Only thing was...they were talking about Republicans! ;-)
It was shhhhhhshed talk. But.... ;-)
All of 'em were demrats.
Hey fellow FReeper....How are you? ;-)
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