Suppression! Disenfranchisement!
Great puff piece in the Miami Herald about the Miami-Dade Elections supervisor. She's so human I just want to hug her now despite the disaster she oversaw.
Penelope Townsley, Miami-Dade Elections Supervisor
But the best part is this paragraph about those darned Republicans and the law they passed to suppress the vote, which was buried on the third page:
Among other things, the law reduced the number of early-voting days to 8 from 14, though it kept the number of hours on the books the same, and it eliminated early voting the Sunday before Election Day, though it guaranteed one Sunday of early voting.
Remember that before 2004 there was no early voting in Florida. The duly elected legislature passed a law limiting it to 8 days but did not cut back on the number of hours allowed for (96). Sounds like suppression to me.
Celebrate diversity, dude. She's too COLORful to be fired. C'mon, get over it.
Well, Henry, no matter how bad a disaster she’d presided over, if you have a problem with her performance, you know what you are, don’t you? That’s right, R-A-C-I-S-T. So go with me on this: what would happen if a white Cuban-American Republican were in her position and did a comparable job in a presidential election involving Marco Rubio? O-M-G. It’s too scary to even contemplate, and I’m hardly kidding. It’d make the 2000 election mess look genteel and sedate. But of course, there are no political correctness or affirmative action issues at play here. It’s just, you know, the way things work.
But don’t get me wrong—I don’t blame people who take advantage of a situation that not only allows but encourages abuse by enabling it. That would be like blaming a vacuum for sucking. It’s going to happen, period, which should surprise absolutely nobody. The problem is the enabling apparatus and those responsible for it.
She should replace Whoopi on The View. Similar product, better packaging.