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"REPUBLICAN & SMART, WHITE, TRADITIONAL" - Charlotte Mayoral Candidate Slogan

Syriel

Member
Not enough PicardFacePalm.gifs out there to cover this one.

When you read the full story, you almost think that this woman is a parody, but then you realize she is dead serious.

Who would possibly think that positions like this are reasonable?

“Vote for me!” Kimberley Paige Barnette, a former county magistrate judge running for office for the first time, wrote on her Facebook profile.

Then, following two lines that included her name and “Mayor of Charlotte 2017” was a description of herself, in four capitalized words: “REPUBLICAN & SMART, WHITE, TRADITIONAL”

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“The Charlotte mayoral contest will be decided based on who can best promote public safety, provide economic development, and improve critical infrastructure needs. This contest will not be decided based on the skin color of the candidates,” North Carolina GOP Chairman Robin Hayes said in a statement. “Any suggestion that a candidate is more or less qualified for political office based on their skin color alone, offensive to North Carolina Republicans and we condemn it. This type of suggestion has no place in our public discourse.”

Barnette spent 18 years as a magistrate judge in Mecklenburg County, serving from 1987 to 1995 and from 2003 to 2013, and now works as an Amazon warehouse associate, according to the Charlotte Observer. She is not a registered lawyer with the North Carolina State Bar, but the state does not require magistrate judges to be attorneys.

In answering a question about the protests in Charlotte last September, when a police officer shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, Barnette said protests are “expressive of Democratic behavior.”

“As mayor, what I would like to discourage is assembly,” she said. “Protests are confrontational, they’re chaotic, they scare people. I believe there’s a better way to express yourselves.”

“I do not think that we should encourage more lower-income persons to move to Charlotte,” she said. “We want to attract higher-income persons to Charlotte. … They’re going to have the most money to be able to spend in our economy.”

She suggested that poor people can work; they just don’t want to. With a higher minimum wage, she added, poor people should be able to buy a “standard house” and “meet their needs.”

Source:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...facebook-it-backfired/?utm_term=.35d1d846d3fc
 

G0523

Member
“Vote for me!” Kimberley Paige Barnette, a former county magistrate judge running for office for the first--and last--time, wrote on her Facebook profile.

Then, following two lines that included her name and “Mayor of Charlotte 2017” was a description of herself, in four capitalized words: “REPUBLICAN & SMART, WHITE, TRADITIONAL”

Fixed!
 

FStubbs

Member
She's a judge?

I think this alone should be enough to revisit every case she presided over that involved minorities.
 

Ozigizo

Member
Barnette spent 18 years as a magistrate judge in Mecklenburg County, serving from 1987 to 1995 and from 2003 to 2013, and now works as an Amazon warehouse associate, according to the Charlotte Observer.

Wat?
 

Enzom21

Member
“REPUBLICAN & SMART, WHITE, TRADITIONAL
You don't need coded language when you come right out and say you're white.
Although, "traditional" probably means anti-LGBT in this context.
 
Anyone else see the irony that WP did a story of a woman who's goal is running and winning based on word of mouth.

This is the best ad she'll get all year.
 

Kayhan

Member
Barnette spent 18 years as a magistrate judge in Mecklenburg County, serving from 1987 to 1995 and from 2003 to 2013, and now works as an Amazon warehouse associate, according to the Charlotte Observer.

She is not a registered lawyer with the North Carolina State Bar, but the state does not require magistrate judges to be attorneys.

wait wat
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
“I do not think that we should encourage more lower-income persons to move to Charlotte,” she said. “We want to attract higher-income persons to Charlotte. … They’re going to have the most money to be able to spend in our economy.”

She suggested that poor people can work; they just don’t want to. With a higher minimum wage, she added, poor people should be able to buy a “standard house” and “meet their needs.”

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What a piece of shit. That part of the country has zero standards when it comes to public positions. The entire local government there is very corrupt, pure patronage system in NC local/state government.
 

AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
let's just throw even more coded and non-coded language in there

REPUBLICAN & SMART, WHITE, TRADITIONAL, PEPE AVATAR, GAME MANAGER
 

Fercho

Member
These two bit politicians will try to pull a "donald Drumpf", since it worked for the orange cunt they think it will work for them.

Sad part is that they may be right.
 
Any suggestion that a candidate is more or less qualified for political office based on their skin color alone, offensive to North Carolina Republicans and we condemn it.

That sentence doesn't make sense.

I'm guessing they meant "alone is offensive"
 

TalonJH

Member
I don't even know anymore. It's like she typed it and has MS Office Republican Edition switch out words for dog whistles and it missed one.
 

Slayven

Member
Barnette spent 18 years as a magistrate judge in Mecklenburg County, serving from 1987 to 1995 and from 2003 to 2013, and now works as an Amazon warehouse associate

That is a hell of a fall, what is the story there???

That is the best NC GOP can muster?
 
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