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The Root: The Troubling History of the Most Racist Politician in America
He goes by many names. The director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project refers to him as “the king of voter suppression.” Kansas’ state Senate minority leader called him “the most racist politician in America today.” Until the newly written Muslim ban goes into effect, he still holds the title of “architect of the most racist law in modern American history.”
His name is Kris Kobach, and the Day-Glo douche nozzle we now call Mr. President recently signed an executive order empowering Kobach to lead a presidential commission to advise him on voter fraud.
Kris Kobach is no ordinary racist politician. While he nominally serves as Kansas’ secretary of state, Kobach has traveled around the country as what the Southern Poverty Law Center calls “the lawyer for America’s nativist movement.” He hopscotched from state to state writing photocopied versions of his anti-immigrant “Papers please” law before numerous courts rejected them as too racist. After 9/11, he created a program to register and fingerprint Muslims. He believed that President Barack Obama was keeping black people out of jail. He works for a hate group (no, not the Republican Party).
On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order establishing a “Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.” Basically, the president created a Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated ghost-hunting team to back up his baseless claims that millions of people illegally voted in the 2016 presidential election. To lead the commission, Trump named Kobach as the commission’s vice chairman (Vice President Mike Pence is the actual chairman, but if there’s another woman eating in the room, you know he has to leave). . . .
His name is Kris Kobach, and the Day-Glo douche nozzle we now call Mr. President recently signed an executive order empowering Kobach to lead a presidential commission to advise him on voter fraud.
Kris Kobach is no ordinary racist politician. While he nominally serves as Kansas’ secretary of state, Kobach has traveled around the country as what the Southern Poverty Law Center calls “the lawyer for America’s nativist movement.” He hopscotched from state to state writing photocopied versions of his anti-immigrant “Papers please” law before numerous courts rejected them as too racist. After 9/11, he created a program to register and fingerprint Muslims. He believed that President Barack Obama was keeping black people out of jail. He works for a hate group (no, not the Republican Party).
On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order establishing a “Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.” Basically, the president created a Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated ghost-hunting team to back up his baseless claims that millions of people illegally voted in the 2016 presidential election. To lead the commission, Trump named Kobach as the commission’s vice chairman (Vice President Mike Pence is the actual chairman, but if there’s another woman eating in the room, you know he has to leave). . . .
http://www.theroot.com/the-troubling-history-of-the-most-racist-politician-in-1795244984
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