The Daily Star condemns Bruce Ash

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

I did a full take down of Bruce Ash and John Munger for their latest offensive GOP talking points earlier this week, 'Have you no sense of decency, sir?' GOP operatives shamelessly compare themselves to those who marched and died for the Voting Rights Act, and today the Arizona Daily Star adds its two cents in this editorial opinion Different views do not equal 'disenfranchised':

Our view: It's insulting to compare Republican life here to horrors of Jim Crow South

Different views do not equal 'disenfranchised'

There is grossly inappropriate hyperbole – and then there's this radio spot from Bruce Ash.

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The utter tyranny of living in proximity of people who don't think or vote the way you would like them to must be just unbearable. Awful.

Perhaps it's time to move out of the city of Tucson. Wait … a quick check of public records shows that Mr. Ash's home is not within Tucson city limits.

Any attempt to compare the real-life horrors, discrimination and oppression millions of black Americans have endured because of the color of their skin to the frustration a modern-day Republican might feel living in (or near) a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly two-to-one is stunning.

Ash's attempt to co-opt the Civil Rights Movement exposes a lack of any modicum of proportion and is an affront to the hardships that people actually lived through in the Jim Crow South.

Indeed. Republicans should be embarrassed and ashamed of this man who deems to speak for them.