Chris Christie Pulls Back the Curtain on Republican Vote Suppression

In this revealing article at Salon, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, the overseer of "Bridgegate," lets the U.S. Chamber of Commerce know just how important it is to have Republicans in charge of voting in as many states as possible.



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“Would you rather have Rick Scott in Florida overseeing the voting mechanism, or Charlie Crist?” he asked. “Would you rather have Scott Walker in Wisconsin overseeing the voting mechanism, or would you rather have Mary Burke? Who would you rather have in Ohio, John Kasich or Ed FitzGerald?” he asked.

“The fact is it doesn’t matter if you don’t really care what happens in these states, you’re going to care about who is running the state in November of 2016, what kind of political apparatus they’ve set up and what kind of governmental apparatus they’ve set up to ensure a full and fair election [sic] in 2016,” he said. “All of those things are incredibly important.”

There are so many things wrong with Christie’s confession. First, of course, is the assumption that Democrats don’t want and thus can’t preside over “a full and fair election.”...

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