{"id":15139,"date":"2009-10-20T11:44:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T16:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15139"},"modified":"2009-10-20T11:48:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T16:48:41","slug":"15139","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15139","title":{"rendered":"DOJ overturns local voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times<\/a>‘ Ben Conery writes this morning that the US Justice Department has determined that the Democrat Party is the official party of Black Americans. The town of Kinston, North Carolina voted last year to make their local elections completely nonpartisan – meaning that there would be no party affiliations for local candidates. The Obama Justice Department has overturned the will of the voters;<\/p>\n

The Justice Department’s ruling, which affects races for City Council and mayor, went so far as to say partisan elections are needed so that black voters can elect their “candidates of choice” – identified by the department as those who are Democrats and almost exclusively black.<\/p>\n

The department ruled that white voters in Kinston will vote for blacks only if they are Democrats and that therefore the city cannot get rid of party affiliations for local elections because that would violate black voters’ right to elect the candidates they want. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, I’m no Constitutional scholar, but since when does the Justice Department have the responsibility of judging local voters and how they conduct local elections? Since when does eliminating party affiliations require the adjudication of political appointees? Just in case you think there’s something nefarious cooking in the Justice Department a spokesman explains the DOJ decision;<\/p>\n

Justice Department spokesman Alejandro Miyar denied that the decision was intended to help the Democratic Party. He said the ruling was based on “what the facts are in a particular jurisdiction” and how it affects blacks’ ability to elect the candidates they favor.<\/p>\n

“The determination of who is a ‘candidate of choice’ for any group of voters in a given jurisdiction is based on an analysis of the electoral behavior of those voters within a particular jurisdiction,” he said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again, speaking from a common sense perspective and not from any particular field of study, since when is the Justice Department charged with ignoring the equal protection clause? It sounds to me like the DOJ is creating an affirmative action program for candidates. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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