Sentences with phrase «against black voters»
Last year, a federal court ruled that the 2013 voting law also discriminated against Black voters, targeting them with «almost surgical precision.»
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As a senator, Sessions criticized the Justice Department in 2009 for dismissing three defendants from a voting rights lawsuit against the New Black Panther Party after allegations of voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place.
That's why Cynthia Nixon — running as a Bernie-esque progressive against the more centrist Cuomo — is trying to overcome the historic resistance black voters have to white economic progressives, and truly engage black voters.
Late last month, Basil Paterson, the governor's father and a longtime Rangel ally, said on New York 1 that Cuomo's 2002 run against McCall had left a «sour taste» among black voters and suggested a repeat performance by the attorney general could cost him the black vote.
When Mr. Bloomberg ran for a third term in 2009 against Bill Thompson, who is black, his performance in minority communities was staggeringly low: just 22 and 23 percent of black male and female voters supported Mr. Bloomberg, exit polls showed.
Running against Paterson would undo the years of hard work Cuomo put in to improve his standing with black voters, Rangel said.
A Twitter account for the Democratic governor's re-election campaign, @QuinnForIL, tweeted out an article last week that compared black voters supporting Quinn's Republican challenger, Bruce Rauner, to Jewish people collaborating with the Nazis during World War II against their own people in hopes of being spared the same fate.
On the stand, the mayor — who narrowly won the 2009 race against then - city Comptroller Bill Thompson, who is black — said he believed the ballot security effort was meant to ensure that voters didn't encounter problems at the polls, and paying for it through the party was simply standard procedure.
«Everyone seems to be against former Gov. Eliot Spitzer except the voters, especially black voters,» Carroll said.
Democrats, along with several civil rights groups, attacked the now - adopted district lines as unfairly stacking the deck against Democrats in downstate communities and said they split apart a predominately black and Latino area on Long Island to dilute its mostly Democratic voters into several Republican districts.
Obama's message to voters — intended to specifically reach black voters whose turnout is critical for Democratic candidate Jones — comes on the eve of a special election that has drawn extraordinary national attention and divided the Republican Party over whether sexual allegations against Moore make him unfit for office.
City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, another proponent of the new Latino district, also slammed the plan, accusing it of pitting black and Latino voters against each other.