Georgia Lawmaker Vows To End Early Voting Because Blacks Vote That Way

Posted by | September 9, 2014 18:11 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics Top Stories


Georgia Senator Fran Millar is fighting a plan for Sunday voting because more blacks will go to the polls that way.

Millar made the comments Tuesday morning on Facebook in response to news that Dekalb County would offer Sunday, Oct. 26, as an extra voting day at three different locations for working residents. Lee May, the heavily African American area’s “interim CEO” who was appointed by conservative Gov. Nathan Deal, announced the plan in conjunction with a Monday visit from First Lady Michelle Obama.

Millar was, to say the least, unimpressed. “How ironic! Michele Obama comes to town and Chicago politics comes to DeKalb,” he began his long rant on Facebook:

Per Jim Galloway of the AJC, this location is dominated by African American shoppers and it is near several large African American mega churches such as New Birth Missionary Baptist. Galloway also points out the Democratic Party thinks this is a wonderful idea – what a surprise. I’m sure Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter are delighted with this blatantly partisan move in DeKalb…

Millar remained combative in the comments. “I never claimed to be nonpartisan,” he said. “I would prefer more educated voters than a greater increase in the number of voters.”

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By: Cheston Catalano

Cheston Catalano is a Kentucky-based journalist whose work has been featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle. He is a long-time contributor to Liberaland.

35 responses to Georgia Lawmaker Vows To End Early Voting Because Blacks Vote That Way

  1. Budda September 10th, 2014 at 08:06

    More proof that Republicans want to suppress the vote.

    Apparently they feel/know that with a large turn out they will lose.

  2. Budda September 10th, 2014 at 08:06

    More proof that Republicans want to suppress the vote.

    Apparently they feel/know that with a large turn out they will lose.

  3. Patricia Stidham-Burns September 11th, 2014 at 09:15

    You are a racist PIG! You should be kicked out of office and have your voting rights terminated!

  4. Patricia Stidham-Burns September 11th, 2014 at 09:15

    You are a racist PIG! You should be kicked out of office and have your voting rights terminated!

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