Frantic Obama Dems Move to Suppress the Vote in Texas Primary
March 3, 2014 • 8:00PM
Report from Harley Schlanger
Two well-placed sources in the Texas Democratic Party confirmed that the "strategy" employed by Obama-linked operatives in the Texas Democratic Party leadership can be summarized in three words: "Suppress the vote."
Despite national Democratic "talking points" that it is Republicans who want to lower voter turnout, that is the present strategy adopted by desperate Obama Democrats in Texas, who fear a Rogers' victory in the March 4 primary. The two sources said that the party has concentrated on sending out repeated slanders against Rogers to "identifiable Democratic voters," which has been supplemented by a similar mobilization funded by David Alameel, who was 8% behind Rogers' in the University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll. Alameel, a multi-millionaire who has contributed generously to "conservative" Republicans in the past, has raised $3.5 million thus far — mostly from himself and Obama money people — and is spreading money around to party "loyalists" to get out the vote.
Meanwhile, almost no money has been spent in an effort at outreach, to bring more voters to the polls, fearing that the larger the vote among voters not identified as influenced or controlled by party hacks, the bigger the vote for Rogers, who has called for the impeachment of Obama as her first priority. Rogers, a LaRouche Democrat, has twice won Democratic Party Congressional primaries in Texas, garnering over 50% of the vote, in 2010 and 2012, precisely because of her stand against Obama, who is despised by many Texas Democrats.
That this is the strategy of the Obama team, working in Texas under the auspices of the well-funded organizations, "Battleground Texas" and the "Texas Future Project", was confirmed by an article in The Hill today, which quoted University of Texas Political Scientist Sherri Greenberg, who said that the party is mobilizing "knowledgeable voters", i.e., those who accept the Obama leadership as legitimate.
"Unless you have a hotly contested primary race, the Democrats who go to the polls are going to be well-motivated and well-informed," she added, meaning those out to stop Rogers.
But for those on the ground, this has become a "hotly contested" primary race, because many Democrats are excited to see there is a choice beyond Alameel, who has been hand-picked to lose, safely, to the Republican incumbent Cornyn, whose campaigns he has funded in the past. In fact, there are some among the "loyal" Democrats who are receiving funds, but then say, "Take the money, but vote for Kesha."
Two well-placed sources in the Texas Democratic Party confirmed that the "strategy" employed by Obama-linked operatives in the Texas Democratic Party leadership can be summarized in three words: "Suppress the vote."
Despite national Democratic "talking points" that it is Republicans who want to lower voter turnout, that is the present strategy adopted by desperate Obama Democrats in Texas, who fear a Rogers' victory in the March 4 primary. The two sources said that the party has concentrated on sending out repeated slanders against Rogers to "identifiable Democratic voters," which has been supplemented by a similar mobilization funded by David Alameel, who was 8% behind Rogers' in the University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll. Alameel, a multi-millionaire who has contributed generously to "conservative" Republicans in the past, has raised $3.5 million thus far — mostly from himself and Obama money people — and is spreading money around to party "loyalists" to get out the vote.
Meanwhile, almost no money has been spent in an effort at outreach, to bring more voters to the polls, fearing that the larger the vote among voters not identified as influenced or controlled by party hacks, the bigger the vote for Rogers, who has called for the impeachment of Obama as her first priority. Rogers, a LaRouche Democrat, has twice won Democratic Party Congressional primaries in Texas, garnering over 50% of the vote, in 2010 and 2012, precisely because of her stand against Obama, who is despised by many Texas Democrats.
That this is the strategy of the Obama team, working in Texas under the auspices of the well-funded organizations, "Battleground Texas" and the "Texas Future Project", was confirmed by an article in The Hill today, which quoted University of Texas Political Scientist Sherri Greenberg, who said that the party is mobilizing "knowledgeable voters", i.e., those who accept the Obama leadership as legitimate.
"Unless you have a hotly contested primary race, the Democrats who go to the polls are going to be well-motivated and well-informed," she added, meaning those out to stop Rogers.
But for those on the ground, this has become a "hotly contested" primary race, because many Democrats are excited to see there is a choice beyond Alameel, who has been hand-picked to lose, safely, to the Republican incumbent Cornyn, whose campaigns he has funded in the past. In fact, there are some among the "loyal" Democrats who are receiving funds, but then say, "Take the money, but vote for Kesha."
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