Will voters show Natinsky why they vote?

Ron Natinsky (R), a candidate on Tuesday to serve as a Dallas County Judge, has indicated that he meant what he said and said what he meant on the recent 2013 video which gained a lot of attention. When discussing why he talked someone out of running against incumbent Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson ThinkProgress indicated he shared:

“‘You might question, ‘why would you talk a Republican out of running against Eddie-Bernice Johnson?’,’ Ron Natinsky (R) said in the video clip reported by the Dallas Morning News’ Trailblazer blog, explaining why he discouraged a fellow GOP politician in the area from mounting a challenge to Johnson in the 2014 midterms. “Well because we don’t want to motivate her voters. We don’t need another 5 or 10,000 of her people going to the polls. What we want them to think is, ‘There’s no reason. She doesn’t have an opponent. I don’t need to go to the polls.

“I’ll go spend my food stamp money at the grocery store or whatever, you know, on Election Day,” Natinsky concluded. The remarks are from a 2013 appearance at the Coppell Republican Club but had not been reported before this week.” 

This week Natinsky has not backed down from his comments despite cries from even the GOP leaning DMN and others.

There is so much wrong with the mess, but it also symbolizes the fact the GOP did not learn anything from the damage GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney’s suffered when his 47 percent comment spread like wildfire via social media.

So, the question democratic voters need to ask themselves: Can you show the GOP better than you can tell them and rise up again and surprise them at the polls? The national GOP never really believed that in 2012 women would show up and vote, that Hispanics would show up and vote. And they truly underestimated the fact that African American voters were not saying much during the campaign season — they simply let their vote do their talking.

Historically, African Americans and Hispanics do not vote as strongly in midterm elections. With the future of the country truly on the line: Will they go shopping or stay at home. Or will they show that despite the blatant voter suppression attacks and openly hostile comments from the GOP — they will still rise up and vote?

We close with La Royce Jones’s poem:

“Why I Vote”

I refuse to take a back seat

I refuse to live a life of defeat

I will not accept what they throw at me

I will not stand for an unjust society

I was born free, not their physical property

Therefore, I will not be hoaxed into a slave mentality

My mind can no longer be polluted

I refuse to be systematically tamed or muted

I have a citizen’s choice

To stand and exercise my voice

Thanks to others before me

Who died, so that I may live free

I will not insult their sacrifice

By living an unconscious or subservient life

I’ve removed society’s blindfold

I can no longer be bought or sold

I will carry on hope

I will stand and bear this yoke

In history there shall be note

That, Yes, I stood with my vote