Shorter Jan Brewer: The real race-baiting in this election is coming from President Obama.
LA Mayor: “You can’t just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party.”
The welfare ‘waiver’ policy which Mitt Romney has now made a centerpiece of his campaign against President Obama was made in response to requests from five governors — two of whom are Republicans. So what do those two Republican governors say now?
They’re doing their best to say they didn’t ask for what they asked for.
Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, a candidate for Congress in Arizona, is an immigrant from Mexico herself but when it comes to “Middle Easterners”, Chinese and apparently various brown-skinned people who don’t come from Mexico, she doesn’t want them here “legally or illegally” because they mix in and look like Mexicans.
Federal judicial panel blocks Texas Republicans’ redistricting plan for being purposely discriminatory.
To put a sharper point on this, most of the cases — the vast majority even — brought under the Voting Rights Act in the last half century have involved redistricting maps that have a discriminatory “effect.” It’s much less common for the courts to find discriminatory “intent.” But that’s what the courts found here, in the second largest state in the country, with a large and rapidly growing Hispanic population, whose Republican governor was running for president.
So it’s a big deal.
NYT says reporter made a mistake in sending an advance copy of a Maureen Dowd column to the CIA — without her knowledge — to help her check a fact.
Photos from Tampa: Tonight’s main attraction and today’s main disruption.
Within moments, we can all drop the use of the word “presumptive” when describing Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee.
The Ron Paul acolytes at the RNC let loose today, and the Romney counter-chanters went into full U-S-A! chant mode to try to drown them out. Watch.