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Fallout grows over Georgia voting law

2021-04-21 | 🔗
House Judiciary Committee member Burgess Owens, R-Utah, reacts to Stacey Abrams comparing Georgia’s voting law to Jim Crow
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For someone who has actually experienced Jim Crow laws, I would like to set the record straight on the myth of the recently passed Georgia State LAW and why any comparison between this law and Jim Crow is absolutely outrageous. President Biden said of the Georgia law. This is Jim Crow on steroids. It is disgusting and offensive to compare the actual voter suppression and violence of that era that we grew up in with a state law that only asks that people show their. I dot D Ainsley a house hearing on voting rights takes impassioned turn as congressman Burgess Owens calls out Joe Biden for his comparison of the voting reforms in Georgia to Jim Crow PETE Utah G dot. Op Congressman Burgess Owens joins us with more congressman thanks for being here. The name of the hearing which was established by Democrats is Jim Crow, two thousand and twenty one. You took issue with that characterization.
What was the response? Well, I took issue because, first of all, this is an insult. Actually, when you start looking at what this comes down to, keep in mind Brian, you know the american dream getting to the middle class depends on having I dot d depend on being able to travel and getting on airplane and go to school all those kind of things, and we have a party that is really. This is true bigotry. The soft bigotry of low expectations, where all of a sudden black people cannot do what every other race or culture does the Hispanics, the italian german jewish. Everybody knows how to get an I dot d, but obviously we dont and thats. Why we have to we are now looking at asking for I dot d is therefore racist. By the way it was Jim Crow, the Democrats who started and pushed the Jim Crow law us the Democrats, who did all those nasty things that we are hearing about, keep in mind. It was a party that they are now pointing to the american people theyre the party that did all of that at the turn of the century, Ainsley Lindsey Graham had an exchange with Stacey Abe Bramtion.
Listen to this. Do you support voter identification laws? Yes, but I would restrictive voter identification laws that narrow a set of permissible materials. The answer is, yes: is a concept Ainsley us what your response? The answer should be. Yes, if you want to live the american dream, it is interesting and by the way, the greatest threat for Democrats is american people, no matter what color thats part of the middle class, those folks who are no longer dependent on government, they have faith, they have a vision for their family, they look for it because they understand and experience the american dream the greatest threat thats. Why do not want black people to experience that they tear down and burn down their businesses every single year in urban community, trying to reach that middle class to say that black people cannot get? I dot d is an insult. We are as smart and tenacious as
desirous of the independent of anybody else, and if anyone who says that is not the truth is again just pure racist, Brian Stacey, Abrams comes outs and accepts its Jim Crow. Two Lindsey Graham asks this question. Listen is voter. I dot d racist. No, what do you want to use so far? Can you use in Georgia a utility bill, the last four digits of your social security number? Obviously, a drivers license and they offer free. I dot d. You have eighteen months to get a free, I dot d, but that is saying you dont have an I dot d to get on a plane to get a vaccine to get a covid test to walk into a building. I dont know to get your mail. I mean its just unbelievable that people put race into I dot d and they got rid of voter authentication because they thought it was so varied. Today, at the end of the day, we have a party that is using everything they can to divide us.
Everybody who understands the Georgia law knows its fair and anyone who is trying to change the narrative is trying to divide us as a people lets not let them get away with that for sure PETE Congressman, you saw the verdict yesterday in the Chauvin trial, the New York Post Editorial Board had a headline and reaction to it. After the Chauvin trial, politicians must turn down the temperature, so the verdict is in guilty. Do you anticipate that politicians will turn the temperature down like what we saw say from Maxine waters in the middle of the trial? No, I dont expect it because you have to understand what these politicians are doing. There is a great book, Brian called the Naked Communist one thousand nine hundred and fifty nine based on the facts that Marxists love chaos thats. What they did this Russia, Stalin and Lenin, trying to do what doing now. Everything we have is crazy. No one can make any sense of it. At the same time, at the border we have three thousand five hundred people came in last night. We have five hundred young kids, unaccompanied kids that came in yesterday, thats the average. We have right now,
its all about chaos and our country is a place of rule of law. We have come here. We feel comfortable and safe thats what we are up against its a very evil leftist ideology. Brian, do you know who loves to see this? China, Russia, the Europeans, taking advantage of it? The chaos here at home makes us take our eyes off what is happening abroad, a guy like you who lived through the Jim Crow Laws. I can only imagine how outraged you feel when people are saying thats what it is like in twenty twenty one. We have come a long ways, Brian Long Long ways.
Transcript generated on 2021-04-22.