In an amazing display of racism and ignorance, Portage County, Ohio Sheriff Bruce D. Zuchowski, on his Facebook page, instructed county residents to write down the address of anyone displaying a Harris yard sign so they know who to target if she wins.
Here is what the local paper The Portager quoted him as saying (complete with a picture of the facebook page in question):
When people ask me…What’s gonna happen if the Flip – Flopping, Laughing Hyena Wins?? I say…write down all the addresses of the people who had her signs in their yards! Sooo…when the Illegal human “Locust” (which she supports!) Need places to live…We’ll already have the addresses of the their New families…who supported their arrival!
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t this precisely the type of voter intimidation that the so-called KKK Law was designed to prosecute? And can’t residents file a Civil lawsuit for violation of their civil rights?
The Democratic Party just hired a stable of the finest election law lawyers in the country. Shouldn’t we make an example of this guy — just like Republicans do with their Eye of Sauron search for sources of imagined grievance, only here we are talking about actual civil rights violations?
Trump’s game is to make The Commons safe again for racists and white supremacists, which is what is happening here. Making a national case out of these types of civil rights violations, by the head of law enforcement in a county nonetheless, seems to me to be essential if we are to push these people back under their rock instead of feeling empowered to be openly terrorizing voters.
