Gov Bev’s DNC Media Roll
Never mind that she has the lowest approval ratings of any governor in the country; the DNC in its infinite wisdom has opted to have Beverly Perdue, last seen stonewalling reporters while running cover for the local Democrat Party’s riches of embarrassment, scandal and disgrace, join the uptown party instead of locking her in a closet with a muzzle.
Gov Bev, in turn, has been popping up on MSNBC with predictable results of bewildering spin on reality.
First up, her strange take on the unemployment crisis facing North Carolina, which Gov Dumpling apparently sees as proof positive that Barack Obama’s policies are working.
“We don’t want to go back to those old policies that got us into the Great Depression, the great recession that’s nearly like the Depression,” Perdue said during an appearance on Andrea Mitchell Reports. “We want to keep investing in the future and the president has done that in North Carolina. We’re excited.”
Mitchell’s brief attempt to pull Perdue back to reality, by pointing out that, um, North Carolina’s 9.6% unemployment rate is among the worst in the nation, couldn’t stop Gov Bev’s delusional roll.
“North Carolina has bounced backed. We’re in recovery mode,” Perdue insisted. “I’ve added over 100,000 jobs since I’ve been governor. The president knows that.”
“A lot us feel very strongly that Barack Obama is good for business, especially for small business,” Perdue continued, “and good for the 99% that’s not part of the 1% the Romney team seems to be focused on.”
One can only assume that by “a lot of us” who think Obama is great for business, Perdue meant folks standing in unemployment lines looking for all the jobs she has created.
But Perdue wasn’t done, far from it, rolling out her piece de resistance during an appearance on Hardball with Chris Matthews, where she managed to make national headlines by declaring that a Romney administration and the GOP’s pro-life positions would kill women. Literally.
“Every young woman in America should understand that women are at risk with this threat from the Republican Party,” Perdue said.
“You’re not going to stop it,” Matthews offered on abortion and what he said was the GOP’s efforts to outlaw it. “You’re going to drive it underground.”
“They’re going to go somewhere to end the pregnancy, if they can afford it,” Perdue opined. “But for poor women it will be back to the days of coat hangers in the bathtub and you’ll see women die.”
At which point the conversation, naturally, turned to racism and dog-whistle politics. Republicans are using the race card to play on voters fears about the economy, Matthews said, and compared the strategy to the infamous “black and white hands ad” that Jesse Helms ran against Harvey Gannt.
“We’re really concerned about that,” Perdue said in response, and offered that even more nefarious motives were at play in North Carolina. “In my state, I believe that’s what voter ID was all about. We held that off because we believe we identify voters anyhow.”
Yes, of course. Voter ID is about racism. Nothing to see here – except tens of thousands of dead people still on the state’s voter roll:
Voter Integrity Project of NC has delivered to the NC Board of Elections, today, the names of just under 30,000 deceased NC residents who were still on the state’s voter roll, in some cases, for almost a decade.
The group’s work is the key finding from their “citizen audit” of how the state’s election boards have been conducting their list maintenance duties. The group’s baseline data of North Carolina’s electorate came from the state election board website on August 4, 2012. The deceased voters’ names were requested from the NC Division of Public Health and covered a period from January 1, 2002 to March 31, 2012.
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The group decided to conduct their audit of the voter rolls amid concerns about how well the State maintains the voter rolls. While they have not completed the full report, the group is still analyzing the actual cases of deceased persons who may have had votes cast in their names after having already died.
“It’s pretty clear that a few of those cases involved clerical errors on a busy election day,” DeLancy said, “but others look a lot like identity theft at the ballot box. Either way, we will need to review each one very carefully.”
The research almost ground to a halt when the group learned that some of the names on the list were from out-of-state deaths and are considered “unofficial,” even though the deaths were all reported through official government channels.
“It would seem normal for all states to share their death records with their out-of-state counterpart agencies,” said John Pizzo, Director of Research for VIP-NC, “but we were floored when North Carolina’s Registrar told us that South Carolina and Virginia have laws explicitly prohibiting the use of their mortality information for voter roll maintenance. Imagine that! We can use it for issues like corporate ownership and taxation, but not for taking dead people off the voter rolls!”
The group also learned that some county election boards were minimizing the number of deceased voters on their roll by cross checking with other county offices. This finding led the State Board of Elections to issue new guidance in late July that formally institutes the data-sharing practice.
Bonus Round: I’m certain that Gov Bev would consider the DNC mandate requiring photo ID totally racist. Right? This from the convention’s website:
Pedestrians walking to their home or business that falls into a restricted area will be required to provide identification when the road is closed. Passenger (as opposed to commercial) vehicles attempting to enter streets with restricted vehicle access must go through a vehicle checkpoint.
What type of identification is required? A standard issued government ID is requested.
Go figure, huh.
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