A depressing report from the Nevada News Bureau:
...Senate Republicans released a statement this afternoon in which they said they “insist” on pre-conditions for negotiation.
They want a fixed number of majority-minority Hispanics: one in Congress, four in the state Senate and eight in the state Assembly. That quota is identical to what Republicans originally called for in their proposal.
They also called for eight competitive state Senate and eight competitive state Assembly districts.
“We believe the Voting Rights Act requires fair representation of Hispanics in the U.S. Congress, Nevada State Senate and Nevada Assembly,” said Sen. Barbara Cegavske, R-Las Vegas. “We also believe that no political party should have a monopoly on power.”...
No, you blithering idiot, what the Voting RIghts Act requires is that people who are eligble to vote be allowed to do so. What race-baiting, corrupt politicians want the voting rights act to say is another matter, entirely. And what we've got in Carson City are competing bands of corrupt politicians, trying to carve us up. Don't get me wrong - I'm sure the Democrat proposal is as bad or (given their greater penchant for playing the race card) even worse. But this is just a hideous negation of all that America is about.
It shouldn't matter what your skin color is - whether as a voter or a candidate. I, personally, don't give a darn what the people proposing to represent me look like. All I care about them is that they do their job honorably and in accordance with the laws of Nevada and the United States. A tax cut would be nice, too. But what we have here is an attempt to divide the people of Nevada along racial lines - Democrats want it because they expect majority-hispanic districts will award them Democrat legislators. Republicans go along with it because the more hispancs crammed in to a few districts the fewer hispanics GOPers have to deal with at election time. Its a win/win situation as long as you are a corrupt, career politician who doesn't want to have to actually work for popular support.
It should be illegal for anyone to take in to consideration a person's race, religion or ethnicity in matters political. Flogging is really too good for people who play these digusting, divisive games. It is hateful to think that a hispanic man can only be properly represented by a hispanic man; that a white man can't ably rerpesent a non-white man. But something far more important than justice, liberty and morality is at stake here. We're concerned here with raw, political powers and the perks and privileges it provides. And when it comes to those vital issues, you can count on it that in Carson City, at least, Republicans and Democrats will get together in a bi-partisan manner against the common enemy: the people of Nevada.
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