Louisiana State Senator Elbert Guillory

[Digitalelf]

Why he changed political affiliation

[Numerian]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU

[Krensky]

Ah, typical GOP lies and half-truths.

Wonder how much he got paid.

[BigNorseWolf]

So he's objecting to the intrusive surveillance by... switching to the party that wrote the laws allowing the intrusive surveillance?

He complains that black men are in prison, so he switches to the party advocating the harsh drug laws that put them there?

[Shadowborn]

Yeah, I don't see any GOP Congress members rushing to repeal or drastically alter any of the legislation that spawned the Department of Homeland Security or any of the problems that resulted from its formation.

Then again, I don't see any Democrats doing so either.

[kmal2t]

This is only a 1 on the stupid-meter for some of the crap that state senators do.

[thejeff]

And there he is talking about how Republicans where the party of abolition and the party that blacks generally supported up to the 50s. Totally ignoring the Civil Rights era and drastic change the parties made then. Yes, up until ~1965 the Dixiecrats were the party of Segregation and the racist South was solidly Democratic. LBJ backing Civil Rights changed that. The white south went Republican almost overnight when Nixon's Southern Strategy capitalized on that. Some Dixiecrat politicians lost, some switched parties, a handful hung on and even changed.
In 1860 the Republicans were the non-Racist party. Even in the 50s it would be fair to say they were less so.

Along with a whole slew of the usual anti-welfare, anti-government nonsense, including only one brief passing mention of surveillance.

[Jessica Price]

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