Posted on 12/13/2014 2:44:47 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The leader of a group hoping to improve liberals' fortunes at the state level revealed on Friday plans to start tracking conservative state legislators based on the assumption that "someone’s going to say something about black people" or women.
The comments came at the first ever conference of the State Innovation Exchange (SiX), the Left’s attempt to counter conservative policy successes that have followed Republican victories at the state level.
“We’re working with David Brock and Media Matters and American Bridge who have trackers that we can send out to monitor the debate on some bills that you all might be running," Nick Rathod, executive director of SiX, said. "I think in many legislatures my understanding is that a lot of legislatures stream their floor debates but don’t necessarily transcribe it or capture it in any kind of way. And so we want to start capturing them on that. I think we know, someone’s going to say something about black people. Someone’s going to say something about women. Someone is going to say something.”
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The formation of SiX comes at a time when Democrats are on their heels in the states after getting pummeled in the 2010 and 2014 elections. After this November's losses, Democrats fully controlled the governorship and state legislatures in just seven states, compared to 24 states for Republicans. The group was formed by the merger of three progressive groups: the American Legislative & Issue Campaign Exchange, the Progressive States Network, and the Center for State Innovation.
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But there IS one in the picture.
I've noticed that many people don't use qualifiers when they describe groups of people. "Some blacks have racist tendencies" is very different from "blacks are racist".
Another rule that served me well in navigating the inner city classroom was to not express an opinion about a fact. Research the fact and have details.
It looks like psychotic communist revolutionaries will never stop their subversion. Their ardent fervor for the religion of the revolution is absolutely astounding and totally obnoxious. (The new Khmer Rouge of America)
IMHO
Come see the Democrat Idea Environment in Illinois. DIE is killing this state.
It will fail for a bigger reason. They will run out of other peoples money.
It’s liberals/progressives who are always talking about race/class, not conservatives. For us it’s merit and opportunity. I had a die hard liberal tell me that Chicago is way overregulated. Another lady, a black died-in-the-wool Democrat, is sick of Obama. She only voted for him in 2008 and never again. She and others like her are why I believe Obama won by vote fraud in 2012.
They can write all the legislation they want. They can’t pass it unless we win. GOP legislatures have to make it very hard for future tax and spending increases in their states. Pin the Leviathan and starve it.
I do not hedge my words I speak my mind. I tip toe around nothing.
When my now 23 year old son was in HS some brain dead kid scratched a little swaztka into the paint on an old car I let the boy drive. I was upset about someone damaging my car, not the ‘content’. My son complained at the main offce. Some assistant principal called me and told me this was a serious HATE CRIME. BALONEY I replied. There are only crimes. Whoever did it damaged my car PERIOD! I then told the principal to keep his 1984/Brave New World Thought Crimes to himself.
I’m sick of all this sensitivity crap
If these people want to expose racists and bigots they need go no further than the White house,justice dept,IRS ,etc
I agree with you about the sensitivity issue. Being "sensitive" has so affected what people say that it's destroyed freedom of speech.
My point is that avoiding direct unverifiable verbal attacks on people and using qualifiers is all it takes to avoid being accused of being a hater.
Leftists say awful things about Blacks and Women all the time.
Just ask Clarence Thomas, Tim Scott, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachman - I could go on.
The Left is an ugly propaganda machine practicing the politics of personal destruction.
Meanwhile, this is cover while they take over and destroy the nation bit by bit by exercising raw, illegitimate, unconstitutional power.
Sign me up!
Murder Rate for Black Americans Is Four Times the National Average
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/murder-rate-for-black-ame_b_4702228.html
That’s a two edged sword that those leftys want to wield there, it cuts to the left as well as to the right. Just look at what the North Korean GOP is doing to Sony right now.
It would be nice if someone with mad computer skilz could post an interactive map with addresses for all of these board members. A little sunshine would be a fine disinfectant.
It is no longer, enough, to allege it now?
I grew up in a tough mixed neighborhood in the NYC borough of The Bronx. The names young people called each other would not pass muster in today’s sensitive world. But in these neighborhood they still are often heard. The worst offenders are in minority neighborhoods where the “N” word is apparently a necessity to complete a sentence.
Actually there are a lot of reasons why it will fail, but that does not mean there will not be a lot of damage done to our nations before it does fail.
This effort by them will fail.
"... I think we know, someone’s going to say something about black people. Someone’s going to say something about women. Someone is going to say something.”
I think we know, Democrat policies are failures whenever they're enacted. Democrats have no way to defend their failed policies. Therefor, Democrats must attack and destroy the character of their opposition by screaming racism, sexism, homophobia at every miniscule utterance. Democrats know that Conservative ideas actually work so they must destroy the individual conservatives. They know with their propaganda wing in the LSM it will be easy. We all know that it is now racist to sing "White Christmas", how difficult can it be to discover racism in the most innocuous mutterings of any conservative?
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