Dallas County Judge candidate Ron Natinsky has received some unwelcome attention due to some rather rash comments that reveal the Republican strategy for winning in congressional districts that lean toward the Democrats. Simply put, the Republican party seeks to disenfranchise the improvised and the African American community, both of which predominantly align with the Democratic party. Natinsky said it himself:
“We don’t want to motivate her voters. What we want them to think is: ‘There’s no reason. She doesn’t have an opponent. I don’t need to go to the polls. I’ll go spend my food stamp money at the grocery store, or whatever, you know, on Election Day.’”
He is referring to Eddie Johnson, the first black person elected to Congress from North Texas, Johnson resides over a district which is both poverty stricken and comprised of minority voters.
Natinsky even sought to blame the victims of Hurricane Katrina who moved northward for giving a boost to Democratic candidates such as Johnson:
“Unfortunately they came up here as Democrats. We didn’t check their IDs at the boarder.”
Natinsky is running for county judge against incumbent Clay Jenkins, and Natinsky has made one of his election strategies very clear: to disenfranchise the opponents’ voters.