R-tF—king to suppress the vote … a long, true GOP campaign tactic.
From flyers telling people (frequently minority communities) that to reduce poll overcrowding Republicans will vote Tuesday and Democrats Wednesday; to having intimidating goons standing outside polling areas; to uneven voter ID enforcement (on top of all of the abusive (not really) legal tools (making it hard to register, voter ID restrictions, to having more voting booths in R counties than D counties to …)), suppressing the vote is a mainstay of GOP election efforts.
Lots of r-tf—king is underway in Virginia (like Russia troll farm operations) with this clear example Monday evening:
I just got a clear suppression robocall from “Americans United for Values” trying to connect Northam with gas fracking. What the frack?!
Like the best r-tf—king (propaganda) efforts, there is sadly truth here: Northam is on the wrong side of economics, the environment, and history when it comes to the natural gas pipelines. However, HOWEVER … there a more fundamental truth: despite that, Northam is the FAR better choice on environmental issues (along with every single other issue) than fossil-foolish Gillespie (whose recent clients, by the way, include some of the worst climate-science denier organizations). Thus, the fundamental truth:
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