Ron Weiser, RNC Finance Chair, Criticized For Controversial Detroit Voter Remarks

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DETROIT -- The finance chair for the Republican National Committee told a Michigan tea party gathering this summer that Detroit's plummeting population and lack of a mayoral machine to get voters "to stop playing pool and drinking beer in the pool hall" has decreased its influence in elections.

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There is "no Coleman Young machine. No Kwame Kilpatrick machine. There is no Dave Bing machine," he said. "There's no machine to go to the pool halls and the barbershops and put those people on buses, and then bus them from precinct to precinct where they vote multiple times.

"And there's no machine to get 'em to stop playing pool and drinking beer in the pool hall. And it does make a difference."

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"Obama has hired a lot of people to go help him get that vote out," Weiser continued in the video. "But if you're not from Detroit, the places where those pool halls and barbershops are, you're not going to be going at 6:30 in November. Not without a side arm."

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[Hoopermazing]

1. Pool Halls?

The only pool halls in these parts are in the suburbs and frequented by white patrons (technically there are also a couple of Vietnamese pool halls, also deep in the suburbs.)