As much as the Democrats would like us all to believe that they are somehow pure as the wind driven snow, such is not quite the case. They claim there’s never any need for them to cheat as they have such great ideas that people just naturally flock to the polls to vote for them. Cheating, they claim, is something that, more often then not, is committed by the Republicans, who, were it not for their skill at cheating, would have no chance of EVER winning any electoral contest. But this is yet another example of what they say is truth being much stranger than fiction. Democrats are the ones quite adept at how they go about cheating the American people nearly every election. And they have an absolute army of willing accomplices in that endeavor.
So while Democrats have attacked Republicans for allegedly gerrymandering their way to a congressional majority in 2012, there now seems to be growing evidence would seem to at least suggest that Democrats may have behaved in precisely the manner that they're now accusing the Republicans of. The Washington Free Beacon has obtained records just this past Friday of emails sent between Democrat Party officials suggesting that Florida had been deliberately gerrymandered along racial lines to maximize the chance of Democrat success in the state, possibly even with the approval of DNC Chairwoman, the esteemed Debbie Wizzerman-Schultz. Now I'm sure that that would come as a big surprise to…absolutely NO ONE!
Anyway, here's what The Free Beacon is reporting: "For several months the Florida Democratic Party has engaged in a legal fight over redistricting in Florida," Florida Democratic chair Rod Smith wrote to a representative of the Teamsters Union in March 2012. "We believe that Florida can be turned from red to blue if we are successful in our efforts."
Democratic consultant Brad Wieneke described the gerrymander in one email chain on Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, which Slate has called the 23rd one of "the most gerrymandered congressional districts" in the country and which Wizzerman Schultz represents in Congress. "They want to scoop as many Jews out of Tamarac and Sunrise as they can," Wieneke wrote. Redistricting maps produced by Democratic consulting firm NCEC Services were shared with attorneys at Perkins Coie, general counsel for the DNC, the emails show.
Those maps were then vetted by Smith, the DCCC, and Reps. Wizzerman Schultz, Hastings, and Deutsch. "Will speak with DWS tomorrow morning to clear it with her," Charles Kelly, the DCCC’s southern regional political director, wrote in a March 2012 email. "Will make necessary calls tomorrow AM and DWS sign-off and we should be good!"
Now I suppose in the interests of fairness, I should also point out that at least according to the Miami Herald, which as most should know has a tendency to lean more than just a little to the left and may now be trying to do nothing more than to provide a little cover to state Democrats, Republican strategiests attempted something similar. So here's what The Herald reported on Monday: "Florida’s legislative leaders appear to have authorized their staff to use private email accounts, personal "dropboxes" and to engage in "brainstorming meetings" with Republican Party of Florida consultants in attempting to draw favorable political districts, despite a constitutional ban on such coordination.[...]
Heffley listed the expected participants, which included Weatherford’s redistricting chief of staff, Alex Kelly; Gaetz’s redistricting general counsel Andy Bardos; Gaetz’s district aide Chris Clark, and the political consultants running the House and Senate 2012 Republican election campaigns: Frank Terraferma, Joel Springer, Andy Palmer, Marc Reichelderfer, and Pat Bainter. Also attending: the lawyers advising the House and Senate on their redistricting efforts, George Meros and Ben Ginsberg.
Two Republican senators, Andy Gardiner, of Orlando, and Jack Latvala, of St. Petersburg, sent emails using their private email accounts to the RPOF consultants. "What does this do to my district?" asked Gardiner in an email to Bainter after the Fair Districts coalition submitted a substitute map during the Senate’s special session on redistricting in April. Bainter replied, "… In fact very good. But I have to tell you, this map is little more than a hatchet job cutting all kinds of stuff up.""
Regardless of what's reported in the Herald, unlike our rather sleazy cadre of Democrats, the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) made no concerted attempt to tie their successes or failures to dirty tricks on the part of the opposition. For instance, controversy erupted last year over the party’s alleged refusal to redistrict in favor of conservative hero Allen West, a decision which may ultimately have cost Mr. West his seat. I think it quite fair to say that there is nothing that the Democrat Party would not have done in order to keep one of their more popular members of Congress in his seat. Has anybody ever seen what Corrine Brown's congressional district looks like. Oddly enough, it kind of resembles a serpent. Quite fitting don't you think? Such is always the way with corrupt Democrats.
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