Thread by @michaelharriot

Ohhh @DanCrenshawTX likes to get "facts straight" about voting rights.

So let's do it.

A thread.

https://twitter.com/RepDanCrenshaw/status/1407409560785141760

First of all, Dan Crenshaw represents Texas' second district, part of which includes Harris County, some places over there & some other parts

It's hard to explain because Crenshaw's district can only be accurately described as: "the white people near Houston"

Look at this:

See, the 2010 census showedTexas gained 4 million new people. But Texas had to figure out how to keep their districts majority-white, so the GOP gerrymandered the electoral map so bad, a federal court said:

"Come on y'all. You be racist but I can't let you be THAT racist!"

But it was so close to the 2012 election, a court could only make 'minor' changes. Then the GOP made the changes permanent, effectively laundering a racist map through the court system.

TX-2 ONLY makes sense if you can see where the rich people and the white people live.

See?

If you think that story's messed up, there are 2 more things you should know:

1. When they redrew those maps, the state of Texas didn't gain a single minority district.

2. Remember when I said the state grew by 4 million? 90% of those new people were nonwhite.

If only there was a phrase to describe the GOP efforts to make sure WHITE people stayed in position of SUPREMACY...
Nope can't think of anything.

Anyway, all of this happened before "Facts" Crenshaw was in office, so we can't blame him. Maybe he likes voting rights.

Let's check

Just before the 2020 election, Crenshaw's district added drop-off locations for mail-in ballots. Not drop boxes. These were places where registered voters could hand mail-in-ballots TO A PERSON

AT A COURTHOUSE

The GOP tried to THROW OUT 127,000 VOTES
texastribune.org/2020/11/01/tex…

Again, this is IN-PERSON VOTING. Voters would still have to show ID.

But Crenshaw didn't do this himself. He might prefer the regular mail-in ballot system with no ID. Because he likes FACTS, let's see how he feels about voting by mail:
texastribune.org/2020/09/21/dan…

Why wouldn't ol' Facts'll Rose want his constituents to vote? It's not like the white people have better access to voting, right?

Meet Ahmed King. He lives in a Black neighborhood with long lines

How was he supposed to vote?

Easy. Just go "where the white people live."

But let's move on.

Let's see what ol' "Facts Headroom" was talking about. What do publicly-funded campaigns have to do with voting rights?

Let's be clear. SB1 doesn't give tax dollars to candidates. It lets you donate to a fund when you pay your taxes.

politifact.com/factchecks/201…

Why is this needed?

Well, because the candidate with the most money usually wins. Sometimes there are TERRIBLE candidates who only win because they have the most money.

I wish there was a good example of a terrible candidate who spent millions of dollars to win. Hmmmm...

Yep. Dan Crenshaw had the seventh most expensive race in Congress in the country. And his opponent didn't spend a bunch of money.

Old "Fact" Sparrow outspent his opponent 6-to-1

Here's the electoral map for 2020

Maybe the ONLY reason this "Factshole" won win is that he represents "where white people live"

Or perhaps the places where the white people DON'T live didn't have equal access to the polls

Or maybe it was the money

Now, about that money...

Where did all that money come from?

Well, Factboy Crenshaw sits on the Energy and Commerce committee.

He's also on the Health subcommittees and the Environment and Climate Change subcommittee, so he can fight for the poor, beleaguered oil & gas industry

That's a lot, huh? No wonder he can spend so much money!

Man, that's small change. See, Mr. Big Fact's number one donor is a company called Ilan Investments.

In fact, a lot of Crenshaw's donors seem to be investment companies that have no base in his district.

But why are all these investment companies who have sites that say a bunch of words like "synergy" and "asset management" donating to Crenshaw?

Well, Ilan owns a bunch of real estate that doesn't appear to be in Factman & Robbin's district.

Time for some more map shit...

Those new non-white Texas are everywhere. But where will the white people live?

Welcome to gentrification.
In the first map, the blue areas are where rich people are displacing poor people. And that's how you get the "place where the white people live"

What does that have to do with Ilhan investments?

Nothing.

But Ilhan owns a property management firm called Adara and guess where they are building a bunch of new property?

Since Dan got intto office, where the white people live has been JUMPING

Take this neighborhood for instance. See the weird shape of the shaded area? It's basically where Black & Hispanic people lived b4 2010. They were surrounded by white people, so the only way to gentrify those neighborhoods is to surgically target nonwhite people, right?

But how?

Like this:

It's "development plan" that is literally only where white people don't live.

One day we're going to have a conversation about neighborhood "improvement plans" and who funds them. (Hint: Real Estate developers "in synergy" with investment companies and politicians)

Here's how the grift works:

1. You get the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's wife appointed Sec. of Transportation

2. You get her to just hand out money to the people who finance your friends and then we just laugh while they push the negroes and the Hispanic's out.

So let's recap:

What does publicly-funded campaigns have to do with voting rights?

Why is Voter ID "voter suppression?"

Why is a lie about transparent elections "Jim Crow on steroids?"

Well, if you can draw your own district but FOUR MILLION ADDITIONAL nonwhite Texans don't have an increased voice, they've lost their voting rights.

If they can't vote in their own neighborhoods until you colonize it which helps fund your campaign that's voter suppression.

And if you gerrymander a district, kick out the Black and Hispanic people, that's kinda like Jim Crow

But if that SAME Jim Crow poured millions into the pockets of the companies who are displacing Black & Hispanic residents he'd do it quietly.

Now imagine having all that blood and dirt and hate and white supremacy under your goddamned fingernails and feeling confident enough about it to gloat on the internet. It's almost like you're fucking crazy, Jim Crow...

As if you were on steroids or something.

But I would NEVER publicly accuse you of being a lying, cheating grifter who cloaks himself in whiteness, a scruffy beard, & the raggedy coat of patriotism to make yourself look unimpeachable as you pilfer every penny you can while using your free hand to slit throats.

But if you're wondering why someone would tweet what Dan Crenshaw tweeted, it's because there's a bill that stops gerrymandering. There's a bill that makes campaign finance transparent. There's a bill that accepts voter ID but allows mail-in voting.

There's a bill that stops long lines and gives more access to the pols and publicly funds campaigns.

But the only way someone would be against it, is if they were indeed a lying, cheating grifting scruffy-bearded throat-slitter.

Or just Dan Crenshaw

Facts.