Warner Todd Huston:
After months of rioting, one of the main themes that many left-wing rabble-rousers have been pushing on residents of Ferguson is to register to vote so that they can “change” their local government. But despite all the rhetoric, few Ferguson residents bothered to vote last Tuesday.
A big criticism of Ferguson, Missouri’s government is that there are “too many white people” in it. Activists have maintained that only a slate full of black candidates can properly govern the largely black population of the city. So, to throw out the few whites on the council, activists have urged citizens to register to vote and usher in a utopian black government.
But despite all the caterwauling of activists, it appears that Ferguson residents still weren’t motivated very much to go register and vote.
KMOV TV reports that regardless of all that gnashing of teeth the 2014 turnout still wasn’t that great.
To put it bluntly, voter turnout for Ferguson Township was far from historic.
Of 24,334 registered voters, 10,222 cast ballots in Tuesday’s election, a turnout of slightly more than 42%, according to an initial tally.
There wasn’t a wave of new voters, either, as only 204 residents registered to vote between August 11, the Monday after Brown was shot, and October 8, the registration deadline for Tuesday’s election, said Rita Days, St. Louis County’s director of elections. Fifty-six additional residents have registered since October 8, she said.
Ferguson Mayor James Knowles also pointed out that his city’s voter rate of 42 percent even lagged behind the dismal 44 percent voter turnout of the rest of the county.
of course this ‘crisis’ could not have been wasted on the Left. The black folk of Ferguson have figured out the very hard way Government (Obama) was not going to ‘save’ them. And Michael Brown (in their eyes) was the proverbial cherry on top of the bad tasting (Obama) cake.
The Black Liberal Left’s Black Messiah… isn’t what they had hoped he would be. They put all their eggs in one basket. Now this case has put all their frustration and rage out there and they are lashing out like cornered wild animals…
Ferguson has morphed into an ever growing dysfunctional Mess.
What is lost in this is the obivious LACK of RESPECT of – The people who need to make a living, those who feel it’s their ‘right’ to steal from those who ARE making a living…Lack of Respect of the Law..Law Officers…
…I wonder if Ferguson, prior to August 2014, was a town that needed items such as ‘stun guns’ issued to law enforcement officers? Or were they and not used??
A lot may have been avoided by issuing a few thousand ‘volts’…
Voters recently gave 0Muslim and his Dem cohorts a huge thumbs down due to:
1. The Obama Care scam.
2. Their racist defense of the thug Trayon Martin.
3. Their criminal mishandling of the the Islamic driven Benghazi murders.
4 Holder’s racist defense of the thug M. Brown.
5. The racist and dishonest actions of the Ferguson protestors over thug M. Brown’s justified shooting by D. Wilson.
6. Obama and the CDC mishandling and dishonesty in regard to the Ebola issue here in the U.S.