Ron Natinsky, a racist behind closed doors too ignorant to know video on an open website would be seen
How many times have you heard Republicans accuse Democrats, specifically Blacks and Latinos, of using the race card. Many times they get away with the accusations because they have mastered Lee Atwater’s techniques. Lee Atwater was an adviser to U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was the strategist who taught Republicans how to touch their constituents racial funny bones without being explicitly racist.
It turns out Republican Dallas County Judge nominee Ron Natinsky learned the technique but was rather clumsy in its use. The Dallas Morning News reported about statements Ron Natinsky made in a video a few months ago.
Republican Ron Natinsky says the Dallas GOP will be better off if residents in a southern Dallas congressional district “spend their food stamp money” on Election Day instead of voting.
Natinsky, a candidate for Dallas County judge, made the remark last November during a meeting of the Coppell Republican Club. A video of his appearance was on the club’s website for months but was taken down Tuesday once a report about it appeared on dallasnews.com.
“We don’t want to motivate her voters,” Natinsky said of Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson in the appearance. “What we want them to think is: ‘There’s no reason. She doesn’t have an opponent. I don’t need to go to the polls. I’ll go spend my food stamp money at the grocery store, or whatever, you know, on Election Day.’” …
Johnson’s district is made up overwhelmingly of minority voters, and she is the first black person elected to Congress from North Texas. Her district supported the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama at a higher rate than any in the country, Johnson has said. …
In his appearance before the Coppell Republican Club, Natinsky urged fellow Republicans not to run a candidate against Johnson because it would hurt the chances of other Republicans on the ballot. …
“We don’t need another five or ten thousand of her people going to the polls,” Natinsky said. …
At the same meeting, Natinsky said that local Democrats got a boost when victims of Hurricane Katrina moved to North Texas.
“Unfortunately, they came up here as Democrats,” he says of those displaced by the 2005 storm. “We didn’t check their IDs at the border.”
Is there any doubt that the Texas Voter ID law was all about suppressing the minority vote? It is imperative that everyone vote and vote their social, economic, and health interest.