Sat, 08/15/2009 - 1:28pm — DCblogger
Panel hears LULAC case over ‘Texas Two-Step'
A federal three-judge panel heard an appeal by a Latino civil rights group Thursday against the Texas Democratic Party, charging that its delegate selection process dilutes the Latino vote and should be subject to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
For me the events in Texas were the most shocking part of the whole ugly primary. lambert wrote a great post on this and Wampum posted the incident report.
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That's good to hear.
What happened in Texas is utterly disgraceful. Story after story after story, of the paperwork being stolen. Clinton supporters being locked out. The code to call in the numbers being stolen and fraudulent numbers called in. A genuinely disgraceful event all the way around.
And Clinton, Clinton couldn't pursue it in court without handicapping the Democrats in the general election by validating the Republican meme of corrupt Democratic elections.
"Someone needs to point out that elephants produce infinitely more shit than donkeys." Brad Mays
I have a feeling what happened will be buried
Whether it's Texas, the caucuses in general, or the horrendous RBC decision, all of it will be buried. Right now, amongst most bloggers it seems like it's either totally ignored or seen on par with the birthers' claims. I even checked out right-wing blogs last year and there was hardly any trace of it.
What actually happened, I fear, will never be seen as legitimate, but instead the rants of "crazy Clintonistas."
What I'm learning is that even among lefty bloggers, especially
but not limited to the A-Listers, the tendency to ignore (censor through lack of mention) is almost as strong as it is among the MCMers*. Very human, but also disappointing to find this ins the purported Reality-Based Community...
*MCMers--Members of the Mainstream Corporate Media (MCM)
I was recently told (again)
I was recently told (again) that Obama won the primary because he ran a better campaign. I had to correct the person who told me this by saying in a real democracy, one does not lose the popular vote and win the election. Obama did not run a better campaign: he cheated. As I'm used to fighting uphill battles, I'll continue to repeat this indefinitely.
Yeah, it's funny...
the Great Campaigner lost each of the last four months of the primary.
Medicare for All is Civil Rights
Well, Mike at C&L did link to this
I'm not sure if any other big blogs are acknowledging the story.
I saw that
I checked FDL, Kos, Americablog, DU, and Open Left and I didn't see anything (I know, I know, DU and Americablog, but I wanted to leave no stone unturned). All throughout last year it seemed all the big blogs, from TPM to Daily Kos either ignored the story or pushed the "Clinton broke the rules" lie. And whenever I tried to check them in comments, particularly on Kos, a swarm of them accused me of being batshit.
I don't trust them as a whole on this and I fear they'll never, ever admit they fucked up and so they'll never look into this matter. Worse, I fear they'll continue their distortions. Not just on the TX fiasco, caucuses, and the RBC decision, but also, more importantly, on their hyping of The Man Who Wasn't There. How hard is it to admit that there was no substance behind Obama, that he was always just that bad? We got fucked over last year and pretending that this result would have been inevitable no matter who was nominated is just sanitizing the reality of what we lost.
EDIT: Yes, I went off an a tangent, but God the last straw for me is the health insurance bailout disaster and even thinking about last year causes me to twitch.
The LULAC suit
touches on one important aspect: since the TDP rewards past participation with delegates, white Austin got 7 DNC delegates, and Hispanic EL Paso, with the same population, got 3. This is of course illegal in apportionment of Congressional districts, and should be within the party too. But party rules are not laws, and no one goes to jail for vote theft in caucuses or for slimy party rules.
The larger picture shows that all caucuses were as rotten as Texas'. We interviewed witnesses for our film We Will Not be Silenced who saw the same patterns in Iowa. Stealing the nomination in the caucuses was planned from the beginning. Of course, these thieves dreamed up rationalizations like they had to one-up Hillary, who would do anything to win, but that was fodder for the mobs. The real crooks were lawyers and insiders like stole the Il Senate election from Alice Palmer.
And the pattern is the same as they saw in Chicago.