{"id":29961,"date":"2017-01-04T18:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T23:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29961"},"modified":"2017-01-04T18:30:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T23:30:45","slug":"here-comes-the-race-card-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29961","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes The Race Card Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The nomination of Jeff Sessions<\/a> as Attorney General<\/a> is a serious threat to the status quo, so the status quo is doing everything it can to block his confirmation. For the political left<\/a>, that means playing the race card<\/a>, and they have promptly done that.<\/p>\n

The Washington Examiner<\/a> posted an article today about Jeff Sessions prior history as a U.S. Attorney<\/a> in Alabama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports a statement made by Albert Turner, Jr., the son of a farmer who became Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a>‘s field director in Alabama and one of his closest associates:<\/p>\n

“I have known Senator Sessions for many years, beginning with the voter fraud case in Perry County in which my parents were defendants,” he said. “My differences in policy and ideology with him do not translate to personal malice. He is not a racist.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“As I have said before, at no time then or now has Jeff Sessions said anything derogatory about my family,” he continued. “He was a prosecutor at the federal level with a job to do. He was presented with evidence by a local district attorney that he relied on, and his office presented the case. That’s what a prosecutor does.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I believe him when he says that he was simply doing his job,” he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sessions, while serving as a U.S. attorney in Alabama in 1985, charged both of Turner’s parents and another civil rights activist<\/a> with tampering with absentee ballots<\/a> cast by mostly elderly black voters to favor the activists’ preferred candidates in a campaign where both leading contenders were black.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The one thing the political establishment in Washington does not want is an Attorney General who actually enforces the law.<\/p>\n

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