Activist: Georgia GOP’s own comments illustrate their plan to suppress minority voters

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Activist: Georgia GOP’s own comments illustrate their plan to suppress minority voters
By David Ferguson
Thursday, September 11, 2014 15:50 EDT

Hot on the heels of a Georgia Republican state senator’s declaration that he “prefers educated voters” over “African-American shoppers” and other voters recruited in African-American neighborhoods, audio has surfaced of the Republican Secretary of State disparaging Democrats’ efforts to register “all these minority voters.”

In audio recorded at a Republican Party event on July 12 in Gwinnett County and made available by progressive group Better Georgia, Secretary of State Brian Kemp warned that “Democrats are working hard, and all these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines, if they can do that, they can win these elections in November.”

Raw Story spoke to Better Georgia’s Bryan Long, who said he is disappointed, but not surprised that Georgia’s Republican politicians have “decided not to use code words” about African-American and Latino voters anymore.

“The Republicans here in Georgia aren’t very sophisticated,” Long said, “because they haven’t had competition for a decade. So, nationally, Republicans have had to learn how to debate issues and talk about them in GOP code, in Georgia they feel like they can say anything they want and get away with it, no consequences.”