{"id":12717,"date":"2010-07-18T20:29:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T03:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=12717"},"modified":"2010-07-18T20:29:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T03:29:15","slug":"race-balanced-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12717\/race-balanced-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Balanced Elections?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote a satirical piece last August about how life might be if the Federal Government increased its power<\/a>.\u00a0 I suggested racial balancing might be a consideration in elections:<\/p>\n

President Menendez was elected by a sweeping margin when he ran against former Senator Mel Martinez in the first ever race-neutral Presidential election.\u00a0 Former President Obama signed the\u00a0Neutrality in Elections Act of 2013<\/em> and it was agreed that Presidential elections would be held with a specific race\/ethnicity as the qualifying factor, every eight years, so as to offer opportunity to all Americans.\u00a0 We\u00a0 The\u00a0G.O.P originally nominated George P. Bush<\/a> but his ambiguous ethnicity disqualified him for this particular election; he\u2019ll have his chance in 16 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Crazy?\u00a0 One commenter thought I might have gone a bit too far<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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There was a time when I was warned about my on line reputation. After reading this blog for the past couple of months I look tame.<\/p>\n

race-neutral Presidential election? …Sheesha!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll admit that I have an active imagination but sometimes life imitates art<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Voters in Port Chester, 25 miles northeast of New York City, are electing village trustees for the first time since the federal government alleged in 2006 that the existing election system was unfair. The election ends Tuesday and results are expected late Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Although the village of about 30,000 residents is nearly half Hispanic, no Latino had ever been elected to any of the six trustee seats, which until now were chosen in a conventional at-large election. Most voters were white, and white candidates always won.<\/p>\n

Federal Judge Stephen Robinson said that violated the Voting Rights Act, and he approved a remedy suggested by village officials: a system called cumulative voting, in which residents get six votes each to apportion as they wish among the candidates. He rejected a government proposal to break the village into six districts, including one that took in heavily Hispanic areas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You just can’t make this stuff up….even when you try.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote a satirical piece last August about how life might be if the Federal Government increased its power.\u00a0 I suggested racial balancing might be a consideration in elections: President Menendez was elected by a sweeping margin when he ran against former Senator Mel Martinez in the first ever race-neutral Presidential election.\u00a0 Former President Obama […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-enduring-interest","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9514,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9514\/embracing-compliant-speech\/","url_meta":{"origin":12717,"position":0},"title":"Embracing Compliant Speech","author":"Brian Brady","date":"August 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"August 14, 2019 \u00a0is a sad day for me because I realize that I ruined my family's future.\u00a0 Oh, how I wish I would have kept my mouth shut\u00a0 ! 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