NC GOP Official Pulls Handcuff Stunt To Distract From Voter Suppression Efforts
On a day where the North Carolina Republican Party has been roundly pounded by the courts and press alike for their deep voter suppression efforts, Dallas Woodhouse made an appearance on MSNBC to try and distract from it.
After grousing about the fact that early voting was proceeding in spite of their best efforts to suppress it, he produced a pair of handcuffs for Hillary, causing Hallie Jackson to step back with some amazement.
After falsely claiming that suppression wasn't the problem, depression was, Woodhouse lifted the shackles up to the camera.
As he held them up, he said, "You know why? It's very simple their candidate – if elected–could have these on Inauguration Day,"
It was a moment. But here's what's more important. Woodhouse was simply making a move to distract from the really evil voter suppression efforts underway in North Carolina. From cutting the number of early voting stations to trying (and failing) to stop voting on Sundays, Woodhouse has been at the forefront of an effort to push voting rights back to the early 20th century.
Reuters has a report all of the news channels ought to love, since it involves emails (just not Hillary's).
In two emails, on Aug. 11 and Aug. 14, Woodhouse urged Republicans serving on county election boards to follow the "party line" on curtailing the early voting period.