Saturday Sellout-Ken Blackwell

Time for you TransGriot peeps to get your learn on about another one of the useful fools in the service of the GOP that wants to oppress me.

Meet John Kenneth Blackwell, senior fellow at the Family Research Council, a vocal conservacritic of President Obama, 1971 graduate of Xavier University, former mayor of Cincinnati from 1979-80 as a Democrat and former HUD undersecretary in George HW Bush's administration in 1989-90.

He left Daddy Bush's administration to run for office in Ohio, later become the Ohio Secretary of State in 1998 and served from 1999-2007. He ran for governor of Ohio in 2006 and got pimp slapped by Democrat Ted Strickland, who beat him by a whopping 24% margin despite Religious Reich support .

Blackwell also ran for RNC chair in 2009 but withdrew after the fifth round of voting in the chairmanship election eventually won by Michael Steele.  

He's also author of the 2010 waste of trees, Blueprint: Obama's Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency,

For you GL folks who can't get married in Ohio, he's the reason you can't because he was the driving force pushing for the 2004 adoption of the state constitutional amendment that bans recognition or the performance of same gender marriage and civil unions..

But besides his conservafool positions, he is most hated by much of the African American community for his controversial role in the 2004 presidential election.   As Ohio Secretary of State he is the chief election officer, and his status as an honorary co-chair for the 2004 Bush campaign in the state combined with some questionable partisan decisions caused people to ask questions about the conflict of interest.  .

It was magnified by the fact that Bush carried Ohio, its 20 electoral votes and subsequently the 2004 election by less than 120,000 votes despite widespread reports of voter irregularities.

Those questionable decisions ranged from approving the use of Diebold electronic machines when concerns  were being raised in 2003 about their accuracy (and owning stock in the company at the time) to multiple Secretary of State rulings later struck down by court rulings that attempted to restrict ballot access and suppress African-American and collegiate voter turnout in the state.   Many African American and collegiate precincts in the state were allocated less voting machines than suburban ones, which caused long lines to vote on election day.

There was chatter that he was considering a run against Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) next year for his US senate seat but he has dropped that bid.

So yeah, there's not much love for J. Kenneth Blackwell amongst our peeps in Ohio or elsewhere in the nation for that matter.  

The GOP IS The Problem With TBLG Rights Advancement

I started chuckling to myself when I read this post of Cristan's on her blog in which she laid out the case that the Republican Party was the problem when it comes to making TBLG civil rights advances.

Y'all just now figuring that out?   You're late.

Hell, I've been saying that on this blog in numerous posts since 2006, on my FB page, Twitter and in other places on the Net for years about why Republicans will NEVER get my vote in any election cycle for the rest of my time on Planet Earth.

I am already well aware of the fact as an African descended trans person they are anti civil rights and have been since 1964.  I am not, can not and will not cast a vote in any election for a party that has made it their mission to oppress me and my people.

But yet we have misguided TBLG people who drink that GOP red Kool-Aid from 55 gallon drums and think they can convince Republicans to consistently vote yes for TBLG rights issues.   Maybe in the New England states they'll occasionally vote for TBLG rights issues like they did in Maine.

But anywhere else in the country, especially the Deep South, that's as likely to happen as Rick Perry having a bad hair day

And even in New England the problem has been Republican bloc voting in opposition to TBLG rights bills.  Who has been the primary impediment to GENDA passing in New York state?   If you said Ruben Diaz, you ignore the fact that the Republican bloc voting is the reason he any influence over the process in the first place.

It is the height of stupidity and illogical to throw away votes on a party that has made it crystal clear in their words, deeds and party platform for decades their mission is to retard and roll back TBLG civil rights progress.

And that's not just a Texas GOP thang.

We African Americans know who our oppressors are, and they worship the Elephant.  It's why African Americans have voted since the 80's at 90% clips.for Democrats and are involved in the party at all levels.

How many times do TBLG people need to be kicked, disrespected or slapped by anti-TBLG Republicans before you wake up and stop voting for them because you fell for that okey doke 'they will be a counterbalance to skittish Democrats' bull feces?    

Wake the frack up and see the Republican judges repeatedly ignoring common sense and ruling negatively on TBLG issues.  Pay attention to the legions of Republican legislators proposing bills that roll back or restrict our civil rights and spouting faith based hate speech as their reasons for doing so.    

Even Stevie Wonder can see that Republican state and federal legislators repeatedly bloc vote against TBLG positive legislation no matter what their location or pass legislation to roll it back like they just did in Tennessee.


Wanna do something about a conservative Dem or ones skittish about TBLG rights issues?  Scare their anuses by doing what our oppressors do.  Run against them in the primaries.  If you're lucky you replace them with a more progressive candidate, and even if you don't, you've sent the message that if you don't toe the line on progressive issues, you'll get an opponent in the next election cycle.

If Republicans supported TBLG rights like their apologists alleged they do, Sen. Williams would have never proposed the odious SB 723 bill in the first place, and I and others wouldn't have had to use bandwith rallying trans Texans to organize and fight tooth and nail to get our Democratic senators to hold together as a group to kill that anti trans bill. 

It should be fairly obvious by now with three decades worth of mounting evidence that you will not get progressive civil rights policies out of conservative GOP politicians.   It's time for TBLG people to buy a vowel, get a clue and stop voting for a party that has made it their mission in life to oppress them.