A Republican Tells the Truth

No wonder Republicans lie all the time. When they tell the truth, they reveal their contempt for democracy.

Case in point: Saul Anuzis, recently re-elected chair of the Michigan Republican Party, who has been traveling around the state admitting that the only reason Michigan Republicans kept all their Congressional seats and barely maintained a majority in the state senate was that the Republican-dominated state legislature carried gerrymandering to new extremes.

“And we still held on to the (State) Senate, although we lost the (State) House. One of the reasons – it shows how good our gerrymandering plan is. When the Democrats blame us for gerrymandering the districts, they’re right, we did and we will do it again if we can.”

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“We have good Republican seats. We have nine Republican gerrymandered (Congressional) seats. Let’s be honest, we gerrymandered them for Republican advantage and they worked.”

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“Every Midwest state in the country that had a competitive seat, lost seats except for us. I think it’s both an indication of A – We did a good job gerrymandering the (Congressional) districts.”

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“Now we had a deficit of 316,000 votes statewide but we kept a (State Senate) majority which again is due to our gerrymandering, which we have done for two decades.”

Even the Republicans themselves know they can only win by cheating.