Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown: Tea Partiers don’t want minorities to vote at all

Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown made a shocking accusation last night on Current TV’s The War Room that Republicans don’t want minorities to vote in U.S. elections.

After an equally bizarre discussion with the show’s host - former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm - about voter suppression, in which Granholm falsely asserted that GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign was strategically engaging in voter suppression efforts, Brown went on a rant about groups trying to recruit the “Tea Party types to do what they can to push voters away from the polls.”

“You would think in America we would be about trying to get everyone in the world to vote, hopefully standing in line for hours if they have to. But that’s not the way some of these people want to play the game. They want to reduce the number of people who have casted votes. They don’t want racial minorities to vote at all. And it’s that voter supression is focused on racial minorites, on students, on people who are new to the voting process, on people who who have just been sworn in as new citizens of this nation, and it’s unfortunate because it goes counter to what this democracy is all about.”

“Exactly right!” Granholm excitedly said Brown in response, after saying the last few lines of his diatribe with him in tandem. “Thank you so much as usual. You were so clear! That honorably Willie Brown, the former Mayor of San Francisco.”

Brown was previously on the record as saying that the African-American vote is being suppressed, including an appearance on Granholm’s show on May 31, in which he chided the Department of Justice for not doing more to stop voter suppression. However, his claim that “Tea Party types” don’t want minorities to vote at all is a new argument and one that harkens back to claims from Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other leading Democratic figures that Republicans ”want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws” – a claim that has been rated false by non-partisan fact checkers.

By /// September 12, 2012
Francesca Chambers About Francesca Chambers

Francesca is the Editor of Red Alert Politics - an online publication written by and for young conservatives. Red Alert Politics is a product of Clarity Media Group, the parent company of The Washington Examiner and The Weekly Standard. She is also a contributor to The Washington Examiner.

Francesca is a veteran of several political campaigns and political organizations. She has also worked in new media and communications at The Leadership Institute, at the Republican National Committee and on Capitol Hill. She has been featured as a speaker at Leadership Institute, Cato Institute, Americans for Prosperity's "Defending the American Dream Summit," the State Policy Network's annual conference and CPAC, in addition to appearing as a regular guest on the "Big Picture" with Thom Hartmann on Russia Today.

She has also appeared on ABC's "Nightline", PBS' 'NewsHour', PBS' "To the Contrary", MSNBC, CNN, on TheBlazeTV (aka Glenn Beck TV) and had radio segments on Take Action News with David Shuster, NPR and "The Michael Koolidge Show."

In 2012 she was named to the DC GOP's first ever "35 under 35" list.

Francesca graduated from the University of Kansas with BAs in Political Science and Journalism. At KU she was an editor of the University Daily Kansan and an active member of Student Senate.

Comments

  1. alfredneuman says:
    September 13, 2012 at 1:00 pm

    Is Willie part of the “brain damage” suit brought against the NFL by players? If he isn’t he should be as it is perfectly clear he took a couple too many shots to the head in the playing days.

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