Wisconsin Dem to Hand out KKK Hoods at GOP Convention

[Oldiesfreak1854]

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/05/134881-despicable-wisconsin-dem-candidate-hand-kkk-hoods-gop-convention/

Nice move (not!)

[Lief 🗽]

Yeah, I don't see why he would, I'm sure most of the convention goers already have their own.

[AkSaber]

Another liberal always congratulating himself for being tolerant, no doubt.

[TJ in Oregon]

I have no love for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, but using Brett Hulsey as stand-in for the entire organization is like using some of the random Republican lawmakers who say ridiculous things that leftwing trolls like Joe Republic or Lief dig up as a stand-in for the Republican Party.

[Vosem]

Nice to know Wisconsin Democrats have stashes of KKK hoods lying about that they don't know what to do with.

[Gass3268]

I have no love for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, but using Brett Hulsey as stand-in for the entire organization is like using some of the random Republican lawmakers who say ridiculous things that leftwing trolls like Joe Republic or Lief dig up as a stand-in for the Republican Party.

He almost left the Democrats to become an independent last year, he was planning on caucusing with the Republicans. Which makes this pretty funny. I would not be shocked to seem him get primaried this year, no one really likes him.

[Joe Republic]

leftwing trolls like Joe Republic

Haha, ok boss.  'Troll' implies that I post my news snippets with the intention of getting outraged replies from the blue avvies here, when in truth I couldn't care less what you crazies have to say in response to my posts.

(You're the guy who said he'd refuse to speak to your own child if they came out to you, right?  Just making sure my use of 'crazies' is appropriate in this case.)

[TJ in Oregon]

leftwing trolls like Joe Republic

Haha, ok boss.  'Troll' implies that I post my news snippets with the intention of getting outraged replies from the blue avvies here, when in truth I couldn't care less what you crazies have to say in response to my posts.

(You're the guy who said he'd refuse to speak to your own child if they came out to you, right?  Just making sure my use of 'crazies' is appropriate in this case.)

No. I never said that and would continue to speak to my child if they came out to me. I'm not surprised you say that though, since accurately representing what people say isn't exactly something you've bothered with on here.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Please stop discussing each other instead of the topic.  I'm trying to cut back on the impulse to moderate, but y'all are making it difficult.  As for the topic, I notice that the author of the linked article is sorely in need of a history lesson.  While it is true that in the one-party South, the KKK aligned itself with the Democrats, in the Midwest, it was quite willing to work with either party, and indeed it often made common cause with the Republicans on the issue of prohibition.  Indiana Governor Edward L. Jackson was both a Republican and a stalwart of the KKK.

[TJ in Oregon]

I have no love for the Wisconsin Democratic Party, but using Brett Hulsey as stand-in for the entire organization is like using some of the random Republican lawmakers who say ridiculous things that leftwing trolls like Joe Republic or Lief dig up as a stand-in for the Republican Party.

He almost left the Democrats to become an independent last year, he was planning on caucusing with the Republicans. Which makes this pretty funny. I would not be shocked to seem him get primaried this year, no one really likes him.

Was Hulsey actually planning to caucus with the Republicans though? I know he was considering leaving the Democrats but I thought that was because he wanted to repeal part of Act 10 in last year's budget and the other Democrats didn't want to touch the issue. I thought he was considering becoming an independent because the Democrats aren't far enough left. Either way, it's hard to find on Hulsey that doesn't spend half the article going through all his minor incidents like showing the box cutters to his staffer and the knocking a kid he didn't know off an inner tube at the beach.

[MATTROSE94]

I guess the Wisconsin Democrats who came up with this idea could be considered real-life trolls.

[Mr. Illini]

Probably will get kicked out since they sell those at the gift shop. No market competition allowed.

[badgate]

Probably will get kicked out since they sell those at the gift shop. No market competition allowed.

This is a state GOP convention, where the free market is sacred, I will have you know.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

 As for the topic, I notice that the author of the linked article is sorely in need of a history lesson.  While it is true that in the one-party South, the KKK aligned itself with the Democrats, in the Midwest, it was quite willing to work with either party, and indeed it often made common cause with the Republicans on the issue of prohibition.  Indiana Governor Edward L. Jackson was both a Republican and a stalwart of the KKK.

Especially because many of the Democrats of immigrant Irish or German background, enjoyed the right to partake in strong spirits and/or beer and thus were more pre-disposed to oppose prohibition and they increasingly came to dominate the party in the region. On the other hand the more WASP Democrats, mostly in the southern parts of IN, OH, and ILL, would be prohibitionist and willing to ally with the Republicans on the issue. Often though, the GOP would get hammered in the region on the issue particularly in rougher midterms from 1874 to 1930, as well as in 1884 where Indiana went Democratic partially as a result of the issue.

The KKK also had a strong presence in Ohio that transcended party lines, but once again, particularly had a connection to the GOP. Hell as late as the 1940's, Maine had a Conservate Republican Senator with connections to the KKK, in Ralph Owen Brewster. Conservative, Protestant, dry, and Anti-Catholic perfectly describes the GOP in many parts of the North and aligned far more with the goals of the KKK, then a party of Irish and German Catholic wets.

As early as 1900, the Southern state GOP parties went whites only once the 1890's constitutions had deprived most all blacks of the right to vote. By the 1920's, this approach had crept up to the national party, and was a component of the 1928 campaign to compensate for lost ethnics in the north with WASP Southerners against Al Smith. The 1920's coincided with the rise of the KKK as an organization interlinked to both parties.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

The KKK also had a strong presence in Ohio that transcended party lines, but once again, particularly had a connection to the GOP. Hell as late as the 1940's, Maine had a Conservate Republican Senator with connections to the KKK, in Ralph Owen Brewster. Conservative, Protestant, dry, and Anti-Catholic perfectly describes the GOP in many parts of the North and aligned far more with the goals of the KKK, then a party of Irish and German Catholic wets.

I think that's probably why so many Republicans joined the Klan in the 1920s.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

As early as 1900, the Southern state GOP parties went whites only once the 1890's constitutions had deprived most all blacks of the right to vote. By the 1920's, this approach had crept up to the national party, and was a component of the 1928 campaign to compensate for lost ethnics in the north with WASP Southerners against Al Smith. The 1920's coincided with the rise of the KKK as an organization interlinked to both parties.

I've heard a number of blacks who grew up in the South during the Jim Crow era (including Condi Rice) who recall that Republican clerks were the only ones that would allow them to register to vote.  I've never heard anything about the GOP becoming whites only in the South, but most of the southern Democratic parties were.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Please stop discussing each other instead of the topic.  I'm trying to cut back on the impulse to moderate, but y'all are making it difficult.  As for the topic, I notice that the author of the linked article is sorely in need of a history lesson.  While it is true that in the one-party South, the KKK aligned itself with the Democrats, in the Midwest, it was quite willing to work with either party, and indeed it often made common cause with the Republicans on the issue of prohibition.  Indiana Governor Edward L. Jackson was both a Republican and a stalwart of the KKK.

In 1920s Wisconsin, the KKK actually had some of its greatest success recruiting among anti-clerical Socialists (much to the consternation of that party's leaders).

[badgate]

As early as 1900, the Southern state GOP parties went whites only once the 1890's constitutions had deprived most all blacks of the right to vote. By the 1920's, this approach had crept up to the national party, and was a component of the 1928 campaign to compensate for lost ethnics in the north with WASP Southerners against Al Smith. The 1920's coincided with the rise of the KKK as an organization interlinked to both parties.

I've heard a number of blacks who grew up in the South during the Jim Crow era (including Condi Rice) who recall that Republican clerks were the only ones that would allow them to register to vote.  I've never heard anything about the GOP becoming whites only in the South, but most of the southern Democratic parties were.

This proves it. Racism isn't real, y'all. We can all go home.

[DrScholl]

As early as 1900, the Southern state GOP parties went whites only once the 1890's constitutions had deprived most all blacks of the right to vote. By the 1920's, this approach had crept up to the national party, and was a component of the 1928 campaign to compensate for lost ethnics in the north with WASP Southerners against Al Smith. The 1920's coincided with the rise of the KKK as an organization interlinked to both parties.

I've heard a number of blacks who grew up in the South during the Jim Crow era (including Condi Rice) who recall that Republican clerks were the only ones that would allow them to register to vote.  I've never heard anything about the GOP becoming whites only in the South, but most of the southern Democratic parties were.

I seriously doubt there were any Republican clerks in the south at that time, most offices were 100% Democratic, even the legislatures bordered on that.

[Deus Naturae]

As early as 1900, the Southern state GOP parties went whites only once the 1890's constitutions had deprived most all blacks of the right to vote. By the 1920's, this approach had crept up to the national party, and was a component of the 1928 campaign to compensate for lost ethnics in the north with WASP Southerners against Al Smith. The 1920's coincided with the rise of the KKK as an organization interlinked to both parties.

I've heard a number of blacks who grew up in the South during the Jim Crow era (including Condi Rice) who recall that Republican clerks were the only ones that would allow them to register to vote.  I've never heard anything about the GOP becoming whites only in the South, but most of the southern Democratic parties were.

This proves it. Racism isn't real, y'all. We can all go home.

...when did Oldiesfreak say that?

[MATTROSE94]

As early as 1900, the Southern state GOP parties went whites only once the 1890's constitutions had deprived most all blacks of the right to vote. By the 1920's, this approach had crept up to the national party, and was a component of the 1928 campaign to compensate for lost ethnics in the north with WASP Southerners against Al Smith. The 1920's coincided with the rise of the KKK as an organization interlinked to both parties.

I've heard a number of blacks who grew up in the South during the Jim Crow era (including Condi Rice) who recall that Republican clerks were the only ones that would allow them to register to vote.  I've never heard anything about the GOP becoming whites only in the South, but most of the southern Democratic parties were.

I seriously doubt there were any Republican clerks in the south at that time, most offices were 100% Democratic, even the legislatures bordered on that.

Maybe there were a few Republican polling place clerks in parts of the South such as East Tennessee.

[Franzl]

Yeah, I don't see why he would, I'm sure most of the convention goers already have their own.

Yeah probably, but even if not, no free handouts!