Donna Brazile: ‘The cavemen are back’
Published September 21, 2013
by Jim Morrill, Charlotte Observer, September 20, 2013.
Some of North Carolina’s top women office-holders Friday heard Democratic strategist Donna Brazile rip Republicans for sending the state backwards and making it “a model of voter suppression.”
Brazile spoke at a fundraiser at Charlotte’s Ritz-Carlton hotel for Lillian’s List, a group dedicated to electing Democratic women who support abortion rights.
“We know your governor belongs to another era,” Brazile told the mostly female audience of around 500. “The dinosaurs are back. The cavemen are back.”
Democratic officials in the audience included U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, state Treasurer Janet Cowell, state Auditor Beth Wood and 15 lawmakers.
It also included Ellen Malcolm, founder of Emily’s List, a national group that served as a model for the North Carolina organization.
Brazile, the former manager of Democrat Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign and now a cable news pundit, urged the audience to support more women candidates.
“The war on women in 2012 … was real, and it’s not over,” she said.
Speaking of North Carolina’s Republican-led General Assembly, she said lawmakers were “brazen.”
“They hold us in contempt because they fear our power,” she told the Democratic women.
She alluded to the state’s controversial new voting law, which in addition to requiring a photo ID by 2016 shortens the early voting period and ends same-day registration and straight-ticket voting.
North Carolina, she said, “has made itself a model of voter suppression.”
Republicans say the law, signed by GOP Gov. Pat McCrory, will help ensure the integrity of the state’s voting process.
In brief comments, Hagan told the audience that it has to help ensure that “issues affecting women are no longer put on the back burner.”
The event, which marked the 15th anniversary of Lillian’s List, raised more than $67,000.
Brazile urged the guests to dig even deeper.
“If you’re serious about change,” she said, “you’re going to have to give up a little change.”
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September 21, 2013 at 8:23 am
TP Wohlford says:
Liberals are NOTHING if they are not all about the latest liberal fad.
The good news is that fairly soon they'll see the next "squirrel", the next "Shiny", and today's cause du jour will join the ranks of pesticides on grapes, styrofoam cups, holes in the ozone layer, biofuels, and dozens of other hyperventilated liberal fads I've seen in my lifetime.
That our new laws are in line with other states' laws, and no one is protesting those, is telling. This is about the loss of power in NC by the Dems, and they're throwing the same temper tantrum we've seen in Wisconsin and Michigan (to name just a couple). That they use their "useful idiots" -- who honestly believe they are not being manipulated! -- is part of the strategy. When the Dems are back in power, they'll keep the voting laws. And yes, if they would've been in power, they would've had much the same budget.
September 21, 2013 at 8:26 am
TP Wohlford says:
By the way, "caveman" is an offensive term to me. It, akin to the term "redskins" is a gross caricature of the fine Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal men AND WOMEN human beings who honestly struggled and built the world we have today. It also implies a lack of intelligence, code words, akin to talking about "The kids on the short bus". I call on Ms. Brazile to renounce her use of the statement and take sensitivity training.
/sarcasm
September 21, 2013 at 10:52 am
Richard Bunce says:
The key to the entire article is "fundraiser". Of course the Republican party provides the opening for such by using the coercive powers of government, something they often claim to oppose, to enforce their social agenda in the same way that these Democratic women would for their most favored or opposed activities of us citizens.
