GOP Senator Says Voter Suppression Is A 'Great Idea'
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GOP Senator Says Voter Suppression Is A 'Great Idea'
Willa Frej, HuffPost 1 hour 19 minutes ago 
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) appeared to endorse voter suppression during a campaign stop this month, saying efforts to undermine voting among liberals at certain colleges would be a “great idea.”
“And then they remind me that there’s a lot of liberal folks in those other schools who maybe we don’t want to vote,” Hyde-Smith can be heard telling a small crowd of young people outside her campaign bus in a video taken Nov. 3 and posted on online Thursday. “Maybe we want to make it just a little more difficult. And I think that’s a great idea.”
Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to the Senate in April following the retirement of Thad Cochran, faces Democrat Mike Espy in a Nov. 27 runoff election. The Trump-backed Republican also came under fire last weekend for apparent racist remarks, joking with a crowd about attending a public hanging .
Campaign spokeswoman Melissa Scallan insisted Hyde-Smith was joking as she talked with students in Starkville, Mississippi, and claimed the video had been edited.
“It’s ok to still have a sense of humor in America isn’t it?” Hyde-Smith tweeted after the video circulated. “These students enjoyed a laugh with Cindy despite out of state social media posts trying to mislead Mississippians.”
This iframe is not allowedIt’s unclear which “other schools” Hyde-Smith referred to in the video. There are several historically black colleges and universities in the state.
“For a state like Mississippi, where voting rights were obtained through sweat and blood, everyone should appreciate that this is not a laughing matter ,” Espy spokesman Danny Blanton said of Hyde-Smith’s remarks. “Mississippians deserve a senator who represents our best qualities, not a walking stereotype who embarrasses our state.”
- This article originally appeared on HuffPost .
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Strike two........She should have quit after the public hanging comment, some folks should just have their lips sewn together at birth I suppose.
I can think of a lot of liberals who should have their mouths sewn shut, starting with Hillary who just last week said something that was undeniably racist.
True enough, but the seed was aimed at this particular idiot not them.
Hillary who?
but, but, but, what about...
I doubt you personally know more than 2.
I may not know many but I have to listen to them on tv all day.
Change the channel.
The First Amendment is every American's right, even when they say something we disagree with.
Never stated that She did not have the right to make such a statement, more that it was not a very bright one. Though everyone has a right to speak, some would be better served by silence.
Newsflash: She still is.
Make it harder to vote????
She's a complete and utter moron
What a moronic imbecile...what can you expect from Mississippi.
Mississippi, where every town has a Magnolia Avenue...
They need all the jasmine and mint to cover racism's rot.
Voter Suppression Is Deplorable...
Funny that even when they admit it, their supporters will brush it off.
I will expand on her thought, only property owning men get to vote, just the way the founders envisioned. What can I say, I am an originalist.
Women, minorities and 18 year olds were all given the right to vote by Constitutional admendments. That makes them just as valid as if they were in the Bill of Rights.
If we want to start rolling things back then I say we take it all the way back.