Just got off from work. >_< I got a LOT of customer appreciation today, especially in light of the working conditions with the cold-driving-rain! So I haven't eaten yet, but I did have some of the people who live in the neighborhood tell me repeatedly, JUST KEEP WORKING ON YOUR WEBSITE IT TAKES TIME!
Now some of these people ARE SHOP OWNERS AND BUSINESS PEOPLE THEMSELVES! And what I WANT TO DO is advertise THROUGH THEM. But I don't have enough funds to PAY THEM. Maybe I will post some banners on the website and adver...
>_<
NOW I HAVE FUCKED UP!
I HAVE FUCKED UP NOW!
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Since I was at work, I wasn't thinking about WHAT JUST CAME TO ME RIGHT NOW CUZ I WAS I WORK! But now that I am home I realize now I can offer advertisement banners ON MY WEBSITE! ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND, ON HERE! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
So now I need to make some rounds to the local shops!
WHEW! That was the world's LONGEST COMMERCIAL BREAK EVER WASN'T IT!? HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAH! Lemme tell ya something!? I made that food and sat down. I'm feelin pretty good about having lost so much weight and continuing to push forward, but I slept like shit last night after I found out that the job interview was a scam job. It honestly annoyed me THAT MUCH that there are Whites out here still coming up with "Marketing Jobs" and "Inside Sales" jobs, meant to scam and lure anyone into them. Where people all across Nazi-America are REALLY PISSED AND FRUSTRATED.
I just don't understand why PEOPLE, not just Whites, but My Own as well. Yo? The climate right now is PURE-D HOSTILITY. People are flippin out and freakin out over damn near anything. Nazi-Cops are killin at will. Politicians are LITERALLY STEALING with NO REMORSE from anyone. So to still be out here "making up jobs" where you know that what you're doing is just an attempt to shuttle and sucker people in and out. Use'em with claims of "opportunity". While lying on the phone and claiming "salary will be discussed by the manager". When you know you don't have a salary because everything is commissions.
I was able to be suckered because now these "Marketing" jobs have started to call themselves CUSTOMER SERVICE JOBS. >_< But thankfully I realized who calls themselves 7 Marketing when they're customer service. -_- And for me to miss that once they replied, and oh yeah they had all the bells and whistles. Till I typed their name into google and looked for job reviews on them. Then the bells and whistles went like this;
So I was like "DAMN THEY ALMOST GOT ME TO WASTE MY MORNING GOING ALL THE WAY UP TO THERE!" and I realized something...?
I thought about how would I have reacted, once I found out that it was a bullshit opportunity?
Now? I'm not gonna pull out a gun and start blasting, relax people. But as you know my feet are fucked up. And today, I have to work and I'll be on them for the entire time. To travel during rush hour BY PUBLIC TRANSIT, only to find out shit was a scam job and they got me? Uhhhhhh, no, that wouldn't...? That wouldn't have gone over well with me. And mind you I've already been told since I started working "Yo...? Are you like...? Losing fuckin weight already? You seem like you're already? It's like you already have lost some weight."
Broken down body or not, I don't like being forced to make moves that I know I have to make. But I don't like the rate of exchange of something being worth it vs. the bullshit I'll have to deal with in doing what I am doing. I've never had a problem with doing what I've needed to do, but I've always had a problem with putting up with stupidity and bullshit that MAY COME WITH the situation and circumstances. My health deteriorated, like I said, because I kept on trying to force myself to be more accommodating and going-on to get-along. So travelling first thing on bad feet, only to find a bunch of bullshitting Whites at the end of it all smiling and talking shit like I'm some idiot who can't see they're conning me?
Now, I know I SHOULDN'T HAVE allowed any of that to disrupt my sleep. But the fact that people are so shamelessly unconcerned about respecting the climate and understanding that now isn't the time to be playing games, bothers me. So I didn't sleep well. Then got to my doctor's appointment and had everything confirmed for me that I was being treated bare minimum due to my lack of insurance. Had blood taken out where I didn't wanna give up the blood at first and the nurse was like "Whut? Where is the...!?"
And no. I am not joking. Lying. Or exaggerating. She kept trying to get blood for the tests and finally said "Your veins are really, big?! How in the world?!" this was another reason why I got pissed at Stacey's youngest brother Bradley for calling me the Guru of Life. I hate when non-disciplined phony "Men of God", run their fuckin mouths yet they've never spent one moment in meditation. Never spent one day trying to self-discipline. And never met with people who could teach them such things, but then they think I'm supposed to give a fuck about their supposed religious beliefs while I can blatantly see they are morally bankrupt and spiritually, dead.
Again, as usual, I don't type shit that I cannot prove or do not have proof of. The nurse was absolutely astonished when she couldn't draw blood and kept trying and kept failing. Then when she finally was able to, she noted the fact that "Why is it coming out so slowly...?" and I told her "Because I don't want to give it to you." mind you it was childish on my part. Because I knew now that I had insurance I could get my blood work done. But there was a part of me that was still pissed about what'd happened where, yes, I have another potential job op lined up. AND THIS TIME I DOUBLE-CHECKED IT. But even with that one?
Claimed to be collections PT in Jenkintown.
But it was actually PT in King of Prussia.
So what is in Jenkintown?
The Temp Agency offering the opportunity.
>_<
My lack of being in the workforce for 10+ years, has me like a Blackman coming out of suspended animation. Things that made sense when I left the workforce are now completely gone and some of the absolutely dumbest things are now common. And that's when I realized that that was what was really bothering. Common sense? Has been obliterated in almost every element and aspect of society here. Stupidity. Treachery. Dishonesty. And negative traits like these are now lauded, applauded and blatantly rewarded. But then people have the nerve to open their pie-holes and say "Why did so-n-so do this?" or "Why is so-n-so doing that when they know this will get'em killed!?"
It is because Wrong is Right.
And Right is Wrong.
And it is everywhere now.
Lucrative.
Lavishly rewarded and praised.
However I don't need to be a Guru of Life to know that nothing set this way can maintain itself for long, no matter how much money, power or anything else is dumped into it to keep the river flowing wrong. At some point or another, something gives.
Once I woke up I checked my so-called pay for the last few weeks and was reminded of why I am looking elsewhere. But in all honesty? I was reminded that My Job, is Writing. So I have been typing stuff for Williams Works. I stopped to take a break. And came back here since I'd said I was only taking a break in my last post. So now everyone is up to speed. And now, it's time for me to get back to work and then go to bed. Because I have to work today. Hopefully I will get called in for the PT-job where they pay $15 an hour for 20 hours worth of work per week. I'm gonna keep looking for more work though and I'm finally almost finished the first free-story for the site. I'm gonna also review and re-read the posted stories I have too. That's it.
LATER PEOPLE!
So I'm cookin in the kitchen. Had my doctor's appointment and LO AND BEHOLD!? How things changed once I produced some INSURANCE! >_< Damn you, Nazi-America!
AHEM!
So, yes, like I was saying!?
Went to the doctor's today. Blood Pressure was 127/87, which is OKAY. Need to get it to 120/80.
Weight is now down to 273, so I've lost 16lbs, because I meant what I said. I'm up in here workin MY ASS OFF, LITERALLY! I'm trying to make this the last round of the meds, because I already know they can't be trusted. Got a complete blood test done too. Got referral to go to an Orthopedics Medical Center. My doctor was like, whoa, didn't know you had all of that that needed to get done!?
Yes, I do.
And still I rise.
Mind you!? THE ONE JOB INTERVIEW FROM YESTERDAY WAS A SCAM-JOB!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, THEY ALMOST GOT ME! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAH! I did my research late night and found out that it is a bullshit White-owned "marketing job". Translation, sellin shit that no one wants, while turning a profit for the Whites who made up the bullshit place. >_< No thank you, I'll pass!
Mbuso Mandela lashes out at teen accusing him of rape
2015-09-27 06:15
Mbuso Mandela has allegedly sent a video to the 15-year-old girl he is accused of raping – in a move that could see him sent back to prison.
On Monday evening, a video recording of Mandela (24) was sent to the teenager on social networking site Snapchat, which, if found to have been sent by him, would be a direct infringement of his bail conditions.
In the video – subtitled Monday Missions, with four unhappy-face emoticons followed by another line of text: “Conditions of life...” – Mandela laments having to report to the police station.
In it, he says: “Again and again, it’s the same old thing. You know what I’m saying? F***ing bail conditions and s**t, mother f***ing dammit man.”
Mandela was granted bail of R7 000 by the Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court in late August. He was ordered not to interfere or have any direct or indirect contact with state witnesses, including on social media.
The grandson of late former president Nelson Mandela was also ordered to report to the police station in Norwood, Johannesburg, twice a day on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Earlier this month, he applied to have his bail conditions relaxed after Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula granted him permission to be treated at 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria for alleged post-traumatic stress disorder.
He was then ordered to report to the Lyttelton Police Station on Mondays and Thursdays between 4pm and 5pm. The video shows him entering this police station.
Accuser breaks her silence
His teenage accuser broke her silence for the first time this week, telling City Press she felt “scared”, “confused” and “intimidated” when she received the video.
“He sent an invitation to me on Snapchat using the name Bonafidesnaps, which I accepted because it could have been anyone,” she said. “Then his name came up.
“I was very scared and confused. I immediately knew he was not allowed to contact me under any circumstances. I got a big shock,” she said.
“Indirectly, he was trying to intimidate me and make me feel guilty or something.”
A still from the video that Mbuso Mandela allegedly sent to his rape accuser. Picture: Snapchat
The girl and her aunt then went to the Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday morning to report the matter to prosecutors. Although the prosecutor handling her case was on leave, they had a meeting with senior prosecutor Nadine Nel, who specialises in sexual offences and who allegedly instructed investigating officer Lieutenant Dithomo Mmako to obtain an order under section 205 of the Criminal Procedure Act that would allow police access to his cellphone records.
A relative present at the meeting said Nel “explained that she told Lieutenant Mmako to get a section 205 [order] for that phone so that it can be verified that it is his phone”.
“I think it was an act of intimidation. He’s arrogant and cocky, and has some idea that he will get away with this,” she said. “The video was deleted after two days. He’s no longer a contact [of hers] on Snapchat and he probably realised it afterwards.”
The young accuser made a statement about the video to Mmako on Wednesday.
Gauteng provincial police spokesperson Brigadier Mashadi Selepe refused to comment on the section 205 order.
“For now, we won’t divulge that information. It’s part of our investigation,” she said.
Gauteng prosecutions spokesperson Phindi Louw said she was not aware of the video or any violation of bail conditions, but said it would be investigated.
“Depending on the outcome of the investigation, the prosecutor could apply for his bail to be revoked,” she said.
Mandela’s attorney, Wesley Hayes, did not reply to requests for comment sent to him on email, SMS, voice message, Facebook and Twitter between late Friday afternoon and yesterday.
Where is Mbuso?
However, Mandela’s video and Twitter timeline raise questions about his whereabouts.
His case was postponed to November 6 to allow for his treatment at 1 Military Hospital, but last Saturday he appeared to have been supporting the Springbok rugby team during their match against Japan.
He tweeted: “Memories must be like reality!!! Here we go again boys ... Bring back the gold ... #winners #life ... ” And then he attached an Instagram picture of himself holding the Webb Ellis Cup alongside former Springbok captain John Smit. The geolocation data attached to the tweet suggested it was sent from Melrose Arch, the popular Johannesburg shopping and entertainment centre. The centre’s Piazza has an open-air big screen for showing World Cup matches.
An SMS to Mapisa-Nqakula’s spokesperson, Joy Peter, asking whether Mandela had been discharged, went unanswered yesterday.
Public Protector investigates
Meanwhile, the Office of the Public Protector has written to secretary for defence and military veterans Sam Gulube to inform him that the Public Protector was in the early stages of investigating his department in connection with allegations of maladministration and abuse of power relating to Mandela’s treatment at 1 Military Hospital “at the state’s expense”.
The letter, dated September 10, a copy of which City Press has obtained, contains six questions for Gulube, who is asked on “what legal and policy basis” Mandela was admitted, if he was paying for treatment and what the “financial implications” were for the department.
Gulube was also asked whether his department could justify Mandela’s stay, if such treatment was available to others “who do not hold public office”, and why Mandela was not using public or private healthcare facilities like other South Africans.
Gulube was asked to respond by September 17, but the Public Protector’s spokesperson, Oupa Segalwe, was unable to say yesterday whether he had done so.
City Press reported late last month that Mapisa-Nqakula gave the go-ahead to admit Mandela “long before” he was accused of rape. Staff at the hospital told City Press he had been a patient there before and was admitted to the psychiatric ward.
Peter said exceptions for the admittance of private patients could be made if the minister granted it in special circumstances, and “in cases like this, the patients will also pay for treatment”.
In his affidavit before court, Mandela claimed the sex with his accuser had been consensual.
He also revealed he was unemployed, and had two children and another baby on the way.
He added that he wanted the court to treat him the same as any other rape accused and not as “a Mandela”.
FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2013 file photo, Joseph Pattersonleaves the Lincoln County Courthouse after a hearing …
Another chapter in what has been a tumultuous two years for Minnesota Vikings running backAdrian Peterson has been closed, as the man who allegedly beat his 2-year-old son to death in October 2013 has been convicted of second-degree murder in a South Dakota courtroom on Tuesday.
Joseph Patterson, 29, was also found guilty of first-degree manslaughter and aggravated battery in the death of Tyrese Robert Ruffin, according to the Associated Press. Ruffin was Peterson's son with Patterson's girlfriend. Following two weeks of testimony, the jury deliberated for just five hours.
Per the latest AP report, Patterson's lawyers stuck to the story their client offered on a 911 call the night of the boy's death — that Ruffin choked on a fruit snack. Patterson was taken into police custody that night, Oct. 9, 2013, after doctors determined the boy's injuries were consistent with abuse. An autopsy revealed Ruffin sustained four blows to the head while under Patterson's care. He now faces life in prison.
The boy's 2013 death was another in a long line of tragedies in the 2012 NFL MVP's life. As Yahoo's Eric Adelson detailed at the time, a 7-year-old Peterson witnessed a drunk driver kill his older brother; three years later, his father was sentenced to 10 years in prison for money laundering; and on the night of the 2007 scouting combine, when Peterson was embarking on his NFL career, his stepbrother was murdered.
Public perception changed when the Vikings star revealed he had only learned Ruffin was his son in August 2013, and while he was making arrangements with the mother to meet the boy, Peterson did not see him until he was hospitalized in critical condition. A week later, Peterson attended Ruffin's funeral.
"It was a difficult day, just taking in the circumstance and the whole situation," he said in 2013. "A child was buried. That's difficult for anyone. I'm standing strong, man. I am. My main focus has been on my son and their family down there in Sioux Falls. Just trying to wrap my head around things and trying to stay focused and play ball as well."
A year later, Peterson was suspended for the entire NFL season when he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor assault chargers after injuring his 4-year-old son from Texas while disciplining him with a switch.
On Sunday, Peterson's wife Ashley gave birth to a son, Axyl Eugene Peterson, prior to his 126-yard effort against the San Diego Chargers. The boy is reportedly Peterson's seventh child and second with his wife.
I'm trying to FIND THE VIDEO where Janet Adkins gets straight up caught and points out something that WE AS BLACK PEOPLE MUST ADDRESS RIGHT NOW! The bullshit IN FLORIDA AND OTHER STATES, where WE ARE STRIPPED OF OUR VOTE IF WE GET FELONY CHARGES HAS TO BE ENDED, NOW! This is an issue where it SHOWS that the NAACP is a PUPPET and PAPER-TIGER of an organization.
Ironically My Mother and I were talking about this very same thing months ago when she said it was totally unfair for a Black Person to serve time and go to prison, GET OUT AFTER SERVING TIME AND NOW YOU CAN'T VOTE ANYMORE?
And that is when I told her, THIS IS WHY WHITES TRY NOT TO SEND OTHER WHITES TO PRISON! Why they try to lower charges and shit like that FOR EACH OTHER! Because they know that the White Felon in front of them WILL LOSE THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE. And Whites don't want that, however when it comes to Us? It is something they work overtime to impose and we have not gone ahead and CHALLENGED THAT AND DESTROYED IT. Especially since, as she said, Black People get prison terms and sentences like water. We serve them, which means Our Debt TO SOCIETY IS PAID. What is the reward?
Stripped of Our Rights to Vote.
So then what was the point of paying the debt to society.
So it is literally a PERMANENT PUNISHMENT, disbarment from voting.
Has to stop.
Has to stop!
But that means WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT IT AND ACKNOWLEDGE IT AND THEN GET THE SITUATION RESOLVED.
I'm still looking for an audio on youtube of Adkins plotting, there is one that NewsOne has but nothing allowing me to embed it here, so, HERE IS THE ARTICLE;
GOP Redistricting Plot To Unseat Rep. Corrine Brown Exposed
Members of the Florida Republican Party conducted a secret meeting to lay out a plan to unseat Congresswoman Corrine Brown through redistricting. The plan – spearheaded by Florida State Rep. Janet Adkins – would pack inmates/felons who are ineligible to vote into the 5th Congressional District.
But as lawmakers and GOP activists in the meeting were secretly plotting against Brown, they were also secretly being recorded.
Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown joined Roland Martin on Tuesday’s edition of NewsOne Now to discuss the GOP redistricting plot against her. She told Martin that neither the Democratic National Party nor the Florida Democratic Party have assisted her in combating the attack.
Politico.com reported Adkins as saying during the closed-door meeting, “You draw [Brown’s seat] in such a fashion so perhaps, a majority, or maybe not a majority, but a number of them will live in the prisons, thereby not being able to vote.”
Adkins, who is heard detailing the plan to oust Brown, is also heard on the leaked audio recording of the private GOP meeting saying the following about the population of the proposed congressional district:
“They’re a part of the population. No, they can’t vote. So when you take a look at, and I don’t know what the numbers are, but you take a look at how many minorities are in the prisons within that newly drawn proposed congressional — how many of them live in the prisons, that’s why Corrine Brown is so against having an east-west, because her concern is that they live in prisons and they can’t vote. So it’s a perfect storm.”
Brown said she knew by looking at the proposed 5th Congressional District lines, “they drew it to get rid of me.” She later commented that the purpose of the redrawn map was to “destroy the 5th Congressional District.”
Republicans in Florida have reportedly said the proposed redrawn 5th Congressional District was a Democratic idea, so in essence, Rep. Brown is “criticizing a Democratic plan.” Brown responded to that assertion, saying, “Let’s be clear, in politics you don’t have permanent friends or permanent enemies, you got permanent causes.”
“Whoever drew the district, they drew the district to take Congresswoman Corrine Brown out of that district, maybe hoping to get additional Democratic districts,” she said.
Brown continued, “A lot of people feel that we can be the sacrificial lambs, but we’ve already given. The 1965 Voting Rights Act is where we gave. We gave blood to be at the table … if you are not at the table, you’re on the menu.”
Rep. Brown also told Martin what is happening to her is not just happening in Florida – it’s taking place all over the country: “There is an organized effort to take African-Americans out for whatever purpose — divide our districts, try to get more civility in Congress — we’ve already given.”
Watch Roland Martin, Congresswoman Corrine Brown, and the NewsOne Now panel discuss the GOP plot to oust Rep. Brown through redistricting in the video clip above. (Which I could not include with this post, sorry. You can visit NewsOne at this link to see THEIR VIDEO AND PANEL DISCUSSION;
Here is the first post for OCTOBER 2015! And what have we here!? Why!? It is the Innocent Little Lamb that is, Whitewoman.
Baaaaa!
Whitewoman is often said to be a victim of Whiteman and in no way shape or form endorses, condones, supports or agrees with the Evil Whiteman. Or His White Power Supremacy over the Entire Earth.
Oh I know, hahahahahahah, ohhhhh that Shawn guy. So dramatic. Sohhhh over the top! Now, uhhh, who founded the UN? The League of Nations? World Bank? NATO? The Global Banking Systems and Styles of Banking? I mean!? Just by FOUNDING these things, whomever sits at the heart of this spiderweb would have a LOT OF POWER, ja?
I mean, Credit? What a novel and at the same time, useless, idea. Do you have the coin, currency, or whatever, YES? Or NO? Not?
How is Your Credit?
Where that question USED TO MEAN DO YOU PAY YOUR BILLS ON TIME.
Whereas NOW IT MEANS, are you a part of the ponzi-scheme of getting credit cards and circle-jerking yourself with them TO PROVE that You Have Credit. Have you been paying THEM. NOT ALL OF YOUR BILLS, but specifically, THEM.
Sounds ominous, yet silly as shit! Because it does! Mind you THEM was a subversive organization in Marvel Comics, too. However too much info is now out and about showing that the Banking Clans, and not the shitty Star Wars Prequel kind either! But the Banking Institutions of Nazi-America, Europe, and of course, the UK. Who still tries to act like they have no real power and influence in the world. -_- Stop it. You're too old to be playing frail, with too long of a track-record of interfering and fucking up other peoples lives.
At the end of the day, with all I just typed. Most of the time it is Whitemen doing what they're doing. Killing whomever they wish over petty political power and silly shit. They go home to their Whitewomen and allegedly it is Whitewomen who are "The Voice of Reason" and "Temperance",
-_-
And these Whitewomen are just trying to hold out and hold on as their brutish, women-beating Whitemen. Insist on getting them pregnant so they can be forced to bring more bigoted, brutish White Children into the, whew. Typing this shit is annoyingly harder than I thought. Man! Gimmie a second to get back into character, AHEM!
Wait, what's this!?
WHY, WHAT HAVE WE HERE!?
Maybe all of these Whitemen in this video came from storks that flew through the sky with swastikas and had nothing better to do but let these fine, pacifistic Whitemen, get their goose-step on. No way could they have come from Whitewomen. You know, just like Thug-Ass Niggas don't come from Nigger-bitches either;
I'm sure all of the Nazi-Whitewomen were telling their Nazi-Children not to keep showering people with bullets and bigotry. Yeah, I saw that in a video too! Just the other, NO! And I type all of this smart-ass shit because once again Whitewomen are exposing their asses in public to be just as bigoted and ruthless as their male-counterpart.
Janet Adkins?
Scumbag White-bitch who was so comfortable with her crap that she fucked up and got caught plotting along with her bigoted scumbag political cronies and friends. Adding further FACTS TO THE MATTER that Black American Criminality in Nazi-America is a BIG BUSINESS AND WHITES AND ANYONE ELSE INVOLVED;
Michael.
Jordan.
You, Nigger-Traitor.
Thank God I always had enough sense to DISLIKE YOUR FILTHY LYING NIGGER-ASS. And I've never let those slave-labor, child-labor, SNEAKERS OF YOURS AND THAT WHITE-TRASH OWNER, TOUCH MY FEET!
Ahem.
And if you don't know why I just ATTACKED Michael Jordan, then you're either Non-Black or if you're Black and don't know then you're out of touch. Jordan is an ACTIVE SUPPORTER AND PROFITEER OF THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. >_< And I've only just begun MY ATTACK ON HIS FRAUD, NIGGER-TRAITOR, ASS!
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, don't hide, Janet Adkins. Don't think I've meandered off on some "rant". Isn't that how the Whites say it to trivialize shit that they don't want people talking about or anyone taking shit seriously. Oh, it's a rant, he rantin, she rantin, we rantin, be rantin!
o_o
Now? I know you're like, damn, he seems pissed off about something. You are correct. This bullshit with Janet Adkins, that is what is pissing me off. Here is this filthy White-bitch, PUT HER PICTURE UP! PUT IT UP!
This SCUMBAG WHITE BITCH! >_< Got caught FLAT OUT showing just how HARD Whites work to disenfranchise Black People no matter how minor or NON-EXISTENT OF A THREAT WE ARE. Here is the article, Janet Adkins, go choke on a dick, bitch! Choke on it. AND DIE;
Rep. Janet Adkins apologizes for comments saying convicts key to defeating U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown
By Tia MitchellWed, Sep 23, 2015 @ 5:53 pm | updated Wed, Sep 23, 2015 @ 10:41 pm
Bob.Self@jacksonville.com
Rep. Janet Adkins is shown during a January 2015 pension workshop.
State Rep. Janet Adkins thought she was speaking privately to fellow Republican activists when she talked about the new east-west configuration of U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown’s district and whether the number of inmates residing within its boundaries could affect the outcome of an election.
Adkins, R-Fernandina Beach, said Brown opposes the newly drawn Congressional District 5 because she is worried about the number of prisoners counted in the black voting age population. She went on to say that is a way to ensure Brown is not re-elected.
“It’s a perfect storm,” Adkins told the North Florida Republican caucus last month during the closed-doors meeting. “You’re now reducing the percentage of minorities in that district and you’ve drawn it in such a fashion that perhaps a majority, or maybe not a majority, but a number of them will live in the prisons, thereby not being able to vote.”
The comments were among 16 minutes of audio leaked to POLITICO, taken from the caucus meeting held during the Republican Party of Florida’s quarterly meeting in August. The recording is of Adkins talking about the redistricting process, special sessions and Brown’s legal challenge to her newly drawn district.
Adkins hoped to keep her statements secret, even confirming that there were no reporters in the room before she started discussing “inside ballgame.”
Adkins did not return phone calls from the Times-Union about the comments she made but emailed a statement of apology.
“My comments regarding the proposed realignment of congressional district five (as recommended by the Florida Supreme Court) were an attempt to explain some of issues that came up in debate during the redistricting special session,” Adkins wrote. “I apologize if my statements offended anyone. Because congressional redistricting is a pending legal issue, I will not comment on this matter any further.”
Brown has filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the legality of the new district, which stretches from Jacksonville to Tallahassee. She has questioned whether a black candidate can be elected in the new east-west district and specifically raised the issue that prisoners are counted among the black voting age population.
Brown’s office said she had no comment Wednesday about Adkins’ comments.
State Sen. Audrey Gibson, D-Jacksonville, unsuccessfully tried to amend the congressional map to add more black voters to Brown’s district for these very reasons. She said Wednesday that Adkins’ comments lent credence to the arguments she made during August’s special session.
“She had a grasp that obviously if a candidate of a minority’s choice is going to be African-American, then if more African-Americans are in that district and can’t vote it’s not going to play out that way,” Gibson said.
But Republican colleagues said Adkins, who was not directly involved in the redistricting process because she doesn’t serve on that committee, mischaracterized the genesis of Brown’s east-west district.
“I’m on the committee that drew this district; the district was ordered by the Florida Supreme Court to be drawn in the manner that it was drawn,” said state Sen. Rob Bradley, R-Fleming Island.
Bradley pointed out that Democrats and other voter groups who challenged the earlier congressional map first called for Brown’s district to run east-west instead of north-south. He said the Supreme Court was very specific about how Congressional District 5 should look, the new maps adhere to those directions and statistical analysis indicated the seat is still one likely to elect an African-American to Congress.
“There was no discussion whatsoever about including individuals who are incarcerated in the district as a way of gaining some sort of political advantage,” Bradley said. “That was not on the table. That was never discussed. Period.”
House Speaker Steve Crisafulli issued a statement calling Adkins’ comments inappropriate.
“(S)he was describing a district originally drawn by the Democratic plaintiffs,” Crisafulli said. “The House and Senate consistently opposed that configuration and argued that it would diminish the ability of minorities to elect candidates of their choice. The Florida Supreme Court sided with the Democratic plaintiffs, and our map drawers used the exact version of Congressional District 5 the Florida Supreme Court held up as an exemplar in its July 9th opinion.”
Data consultant Matthew Isbell has studied the proposed maps and determined that the new District 5 is still one likely to elect a minority to Congress. He based this on actual voter performance in recent elections.
“The district gave Obama 63 percent of the vote,” he said in a message to the Times-Union. “... Sixty-six percent of registered Democrats are African American. In 2012, the share of the primary was 63 percent African American. So we see a scenario where any Democratic candidate will win the general” election.
Adkins will step down from the Legislature in 2016 because of term limits. She is currently campaigning to become the next Nassau County Schools superintendent. Her main rival is fellow Republican Kathy Knight Burns, a longtime education and member of the School Board.
Tia Mitchell: (850) 933-1321
LET'S GET THIS BALL ROLLIN! HIT THE INTRO MUSIC! WELCOME TO OCTOBER! 2015 IS DAMN NEAR OVER PEOPLE!
