DOJ Employee Contempt for Mississippi Citizens on Facebook
If states make the mistake of submitting election changes opposed by the NAACP, such as voter ID, to Gyamfi, these DOJ employees will hunt for evidence that racial bias motivated the change. And they will see racial bias where few do. The biases of the DOJ employees toward southerners, like the one shown in the Facebook posting, will manifest in concrete DOJ decisions. The biases, for example, will view election integrity measures to instead be a sinister scheme to return to Jim Crow.
As former Democratic Congressman Artur Davis said this past weekend at the True the Vote summit, “a driver’s license is not a billy club. A photo ID is not a fire hose.”
Hopefully, this particular Facebook posting will give southern states like Mississippi and Alabama a taste of what they are up against if they submit voter ID to the DOJ. Even if Holder is run out of office in November, career staffers wielding enormous power will do the front-line factual investigations that even Romney political appointees will struggle to overcome.
Speaking of which, truth-challenged Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez is at it again. He recently gave a speech in which he said the Obama administration now allows Voting Section employees like Gyamfi to “express their opinion” about Section 5 submissions. This whopper was used to portray the Bush administration review of voting changes as heavy-handed. Perez refers to the 2005 fight over Georgia voter ID.
The Left has created the myth that fellow PJ Media columnist Hans von Spakovsky, in collusion with then-Voting Section Chief John Tanner, muzzled Voting Section employees, including Gyamfi, and approved Georgia voter ID over the reasoned objections of [leftist] career staff. What Perez fails to mention is that other career staff, including line attorney Joshua Rogers, also recommended preclearance along with Tanner.
Hence, when Perez says that career staff may “again voice their opinion,” he is not telling the truth. They could always voice their opinion. After the inauguration, the Holder Justice Department implemented a new rule on Section 5 submissions when Christopher Coates was the section chief. The new Obama rule permitted multiple written recommendations on any given Section 5 submission to reach the political appointees, instead of a unitary Voting Section recommendation. The new rule was designed in the short-run to circumvent Coates, and in the long run, to foil a future Republican appointed section chief in Voting.
In January, the Romney administration must revoke this policy so as to avoid a constant cackle of leftist obstructionism in the Voting Section, designed to blunt the results of the November election and provide fertile material to be leaked to the media as in the Georgia voter ID fight in 2005. And most of all, unlike the current occupant of the office, the Romney-appointed assistant attorney general for civil rights needs to tell the truth about the policy and why it matters.
UPDATED: I received a communication from a former DOJ employee who assumed I obtained this information by “trolling his Facebook page.” I responded to him that I don’t do Facebook. Never did. Never will. Don’t have an account. Moreover, his page wasn’t a source. As the story made clear, DOJ sources have provided Facebook and Twitter pages of DOJ employees saying outrageous things about race and the states they regulate. Stay tuned to PJ Media.
One thing to keep in mind as well is that Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood submitted an amicus brief urging that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act be upheld against constitutional attacks. One can only imagine what kind of delusional bender he must have been on at the time. But if Hood, even in the face of the kind of outrageous disclosures chronicled by Christian Adams and Hans von Spakovsky, continues to insist on submitting Mississippi’s voting changes to those left-wing partisan hacks inside the Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section for Section 5 review (instead of going directly to federal court), then the voters of Mississippi ought to impeach him.
I wonder if this is the same Stephanie Gyamfi in the voting division that the daily caller reported admitting perjuring herself three times. http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/22/report-doj-employee-admits-to-perjuring-herself-3-times-holder-keeps-her-employed/
It is the one and the same. How exactly she remains employed given her extraordinary political activism and deep-seated biases confounds the heck out of me.
The answer is simple. It is virtually impossible to fire a career civil service employee, no matter how bad their conduct is. I had a friend in the USAF who told me about his struggle to fire a civil service employee. The guy didn’t even bother reporting to work for about 50% of the time, but he still couldn’t fire him.
That is why Obamas appointments of rabid leftists to numerous gov civil service positions is so damaging. Even if Obama loses in Nov, we could be stuck with these leftist hacks for years.
I’m confident the Romney administration is equal to the task.
As I said above, once these leftist hacks are hired, it is almost imppossible to fire them. The only possible solution I see for Romney, absent a change in the civil service laws, is to try the NYC rubber room approach, where NYC stashes the incompetant or abusive teachers their tenure rules do not allow them to fire in a seperate building where they are paid to do crossword puzzles all day.
Perhaps he could create a special voting rights subsection to root out voting rights abuses in Maine. Take all the worste of the biased leftist hacks currently oppressing southern states and let them ferret out racist oppression from Maine. Since Maine is a real hotbed of racist voting rights corruption, it should keep them very busy.
Mississippi needs voter ID very badly. It is common practice to forge ballots. Wilkinson County has had some real problems including more voters than people who live in the county. In a recent election every absentee ballot was for one candidate.
While they’re at it, they should investigate David Duke in Louisiana. How many people have been driven to dems as a result of his act?
Duke might be the most obvious case of controlled opposition in political history.
I lived in Louisana when Duke ran for governor. You had a choice between Duke and Edwards who, just recently, was released from jail for bribery. My wife voted for one and I voted for the other so we would cancel each other’s vote. After the election, wich Edwards won, there were bumper stickers that said, “Don’t blame me, I voted for the crook.”
That’s interesting. It makes me wonder whether Edwards is similar to Duke, considering his own weird scandals, maybe he was supposed to “balance” things.
That’s optimistic – I am more inclined to think they were scheming together. In any case, faking racist credentials while running for office is roughly equivalent to shouting “n-ger” in a crowded election. Not protected free speech.
As a Louisianian, let me address the above: the anti-Duke bumper stickers BEFORE the election read, “Vote for the crook. It’s important.”
Not exactly new, this federal contempt. Federal aid to Mississippi, which suffered almost as much from Katrina as New Orleans, was slooow in coming.
Dick, I don’t know where you were during Katrina, but much of the MS coast line was wiped away during Katrina. Although the debris is gone, the buildings are not back, the homes are not back. What NO experienced was water on top of those who refused to leave. We are quite accustomed to the hostility of the federal government and to being looked down upon by the “sophisticated.” And in spite of it all, MS remains the most generous of all states when it comes to lending a helping hand. This silly woman has not a clue.
Yep, Marsh, I agree with you on how generous Mississippi is. My wife is from there, and they were generous enough to let me take her away to Texas, now Arkansas, which must be difficult to bear. We in Arkansas sent Houston Nutt in exchange, and we screwed them again, according to my in-laws anyway. But for some unknown reason they still love me, must be the grandkids. I love those folks from Mississippi, the state didn’t get that motto for nothing.
As for the jerks at the DOJ, they hate Southerners, always have. Again, it’s the media and Hollywierd that has driven that hate over the past years. There are any number of villians/demons from the South that inhabit the gay/lesbian, Hollywierd, liberal paradigm.
THANK YOU!!! I am a born and raised Mississippi Gulf Coast girl. I know EXACTLY what you are talking about. As Governor Barbour said at the time,’we aren’t sitting around with our hand out, we are getting up, and giving a hand up…’ paraphrasing there. I get so tired of people poking fun at this GREAT state. We are a very hospitable state, and I love living in the deep south!
NO was only dealt a glancing blow. Mississippi and Alabama bore the full brunt of that storm. NO’s levy broke (due to years of corruption and neglect) and THAT is why the city flooded.
My family is from the area hit and my grandfather died because of that storm. When I went down for the funeral you have NO IDEA how much devestation that area took. My cousins lost their home to the surge and were denied an insurance payout. They had flood insurance, but the company said a surge isn’t a flood.
Mississippians got back on their feet because they never expected a handout – they helped each other. My mother and I couldn’t even stay with any of our relatives for the funeral because they all had taken in their neighbors whose homes were more damaged than theirs.
How does a person live without a photo ID-? How do they open a P.O. box, cash a check, visit a doctor, buy antihistimines, travel by bus, rail or air take employment, apply for govt benefits, rent an apartment, receive a money order, cash a money order, etc.-? Without a photo ID one must live in a cash /barter society with no electricity., telephone or cable conveniences. Yes, I know the specifics vary by state but if one is aggressively avoiding any government interaction, why are they voting -? Surely they know voter registration is the source of names called for jury duty… the arguments against voter ID are a denial of the realities of the modern society. The claims of no crime due to lack of complaint reflects the lack of enforcement and difficulty of capture without photo ID proof… That career bureaucrats prefer large urban areas over less populated areas of the nation is no surprise. Nobody gets promoted “to ” a smaller community. Successful careers move towards ever larger populations and bigger staff… how else to justify a bigger title and paycheck..
“How does a person live without a photo ID-? How do they open a P.O. box, cash a check, visit a doctor, buy antihistimines, travel by bus, rail or air take employment, apply for govt benefits, rent an apartment, receive a money order, cash a money order, etc.-? Without a photo ID one must live in a cash /barter society with no electricity., telephone or cable conveniences.”
But should that be the case? Should one have to have guberment papers to do these things? Of course not.
Why would someone who opposes such abuses vote? To try to end the abuses.
Not only are you giving this country valuable information, but using context and proportion in expressing it. That is not the wishful, decontextualized version of all things the Left is addicted to, but hard reality. Lucky you were where you were when you were, and now willing to tell the story.
The department of Justice, should change it’s name to the department of I hate America, and the Constitution. You can not get to more government plantation with voter ID.
Holder will say no.
Well, what if the States just ignored the federal law, and more importantly, the federal lawyers? What if they just ran their own elections as they saw fit?
I mean, gosh, if the DoJ won’t prosecute Black Panthers, and the Senate won’t pass a budget, what meaning has the rule of federal law anymore, anyway?
What if we just started ignoring them until they are out of office? It’s not like they have any legitimacy anymore, right?
they are so corrupt that they don’t even bother to hide it anymore.
That’s called a “tipping point.” But I think they may be overplaying their hand. It’ll all depend on whether the dumbing down of America is a myth, or real. In my opinion, it is certainly far advanced. How else can one explain MSNBC and CNN having racists using racial advocacy to say that racism and racial advocacy are wrong?
For that I’m thinking of a stereotype of rubes at a 1930s sideshow looking up in wonder as a man sell wonderful snakeoil.
I never did think I’d live to see the day they gave Al Sharpton, of all people, his own show. Unbelievable. I shudder to think just what might be next.
Tell her to quit. stephanie.m.gyamfi@usdoj.gov
As a Southerner I can tell you that the contempt is mutual. I loathe Liberals in general but especially government/taxpayer employed ones.
I would fully support the recession of the South. We’re just being held back by the Leftism of the rest of the country anyway. Without the consistent conservatism of the South the US would have long ago reached European levels of socialism.
Good riddance I say.
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recessionsecession….FTFY.
Eric, thanks for that insight. As a southerner, I never thought of the fact that our conservatism has protected America from an even faster descent into socialism. I was a life long Dem until Clinton screwed the pooch, you know, a Southern Dem, strong on defense. When I realized that the Dems were no longer strong on defense, and were getting weird, I left and found my true philosophical home. Go Tea Party!
According to my best recollection, that happened when George McGovern and his acolytes captured the Democrat Party in 1972. The Sam Nunns, the Scoop Jacksons, all the moderate of conservative Democrats began to fall by the wayside or retire soon after.
I think the very last conservative democrat was Zell Miller.
After the Civil War, reconstruction only lasted 12 years. It’s been 47 years since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed. Isn’t it about time we gave people in the South the right to run their own states?
If the government wants to take a stand against voter fraud, they should look at the Minnesota Senate race or the Wisconsin recall elections. If Voting tights were an issue, why not prosecute the New Black Panthers.
The good news is that the Obama administration is going to lose this voter ID case. It’s pretty bad when an incumbent President needs to cheat to win reelection.
Arch: Don’t count your chickens before they hatch on who will win and lose the Voter ID case. This is a tough case because Congress shifted the burden badly against the states in 2006. That’s why to win, states almost certainly need to challenge the constitutionality of the statute in court when they seek approval.
I’m not sure how much the Democrats “cheat”. It seems to me that this is more about rallying the troops to the polls on election day. Just another one of their Us vs. Them “wars” to convince minority, women, lower middle-class voters that if they don’t turn out to vote all the privileges they currently enjoy will disappear. It also helps to keep us talking about anything but the economy (which certainly hasn’t been kind to either minorities or the lower-middle class).
Nobody knows and that’s a big part of the problem. If we had a solid, fraud-proof system we could forget about this issue and focus on something important like the budget.
Democrats cheat a LOT! They cheat so much they don’t even hide it in some areas. You don’t get stories about busloads of homeless people being driven to one precinct after another voting multiple times for nothing. In Chicago it’s well known that the dead voters outnumber the living, while nothing is done at all with precincts that end up have more votes cast than live in the district.
The left believes that anyone residing in the United States should be able to vote. Some think that, since the United States is so powerful, everyone in the world should vote in our elections. The thought that people like Gayamfi are in the DOJ for life is disgusting and shameful. The agencies are democrat no matter who controls Congress and/or the White House.
Why hasn’t Stephanie Celandine Gyamfi been fired and prosecuted for perjury in a previous incident?
Two guesses would be political affiliation and gender.
A third may be ethnicity given the name.
As Quinn says “When you’re a democrat, its different”
They keep going like this and eventually someone will start using the methods or similar ones to those used during the French revolution. Also known as “The Red Queen’s method”.
This alteration to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is one of 10,000 landmines being sewn by the current administration. They know they have failed to govern soundly and have known since 2010 which way the wind was blowing. Instead of trying to improve their performance, they chose to plot an elaborate sabotage scheme on whomever wins the next election.
For instance, the change mentioned before went into effect without any fanfare. So when the Romney people restore the original writing, the Left will scream that “Republicans are trying to silence Black voting officials in the South” and “Romney reinstates Jim Crow in the South.”
The truth doesn’t matter; all that matters is making the GOP appear racist so Blacks (the majority of whom will never fact-check a story) will continue to shy away from the Republicans. It’s all about keeping a stranglehold on their largest, most faithful voting block – without actually giving them anything.
Obama will enact a thousand poisonous executive orders giving unprecedented powers to Leftist career bureaucrats to harrass and cripple churches and private citizens. It will take half of the new president’s time to find these edicts and nullify them.
Who really knows what other maliscious mischief is planted in the 2.700 pages of Obamacare? We may already be living in a police state. All that remains to close the curtain is an election loss this November. It is not a matter of being paranoid; when dealing with this Man-who-would-be-Komissar we have to ask if we are paranoid enough?
Having tried to much out the stinking piles left behind by Democrat administrations a couple of times, I can tell you that it will take two or more terms of a Republican administration that is knowledgeably trying to clean it up. If it is done in the usual Republican manner of throwing a few “old boys” on top of the bureaucracy almost none of it will be cleaned up and if anyone should make the attempt, the ‘crats and their media friends will scream bloody murder, see, e.g., GWB and the US Attornies.
Our state motto is “The Hospitality State,” not “the Magnolia State.” Shameful that she does know this.
There’s really nothing new here. It just demonstrates the Federal Government’s disdain for The American People that started with the FDR regime. It’s just coming to a head, now. I suspect it canm only be cured by mass firings of entrenched public serpents
Meanwhile, shut up and eat your cake.
Here is her Twitter stream. Choice stuff in there about race:
https://fr.twitter.com/#!/StephanieGyamfi
And even if she takes down her account, Michelle Malkin has already grabbed it at Twitchy.
Can’t find anything at either place.
“The DOJ inspector general is conducting a wide-ranging investigation of Civil Rights Division employee bias against conservatives and other misconduct, including the perjury matters in von Spakovsky’s article. Sources say no remedial action has yet been taken for any of the employee misconduct in the Civil Rights Division.”
Sure, that “investigation” is going to go far. The DOJ will not even bring charges against people involved with the “Fast and Furious” scandal, what makes you think they’ll do anything about this. Face it, until there is a new president and a new Attorney General, nothing will happen at the DOJ, unless either ACORN or the Black Panthers get into more trouble. Then I’m sure the DOJ will come running to their rescue.
The reason those Big City Bureaucrats feel uncomfortable is because they are the aliens. They come down to a place with small cities and towns where most people still live by the old school values of character, while the bureaucrats are of the new school of personality. The old school valued things like honesty, a good reputation, and doing right by others. The new school is about lying, cheating, and backstabbing in order to get ahead at all costs. Bureaucrats and politicians are exemplars of the modern Cult of Personality.
If they feel put upon its not so much because they are from the city or from the North and maybe not even because they are from the government. It is because they have the personalities of used car and snake oil salesmen. That might work well in the cut throat ladder climbing bureaucracy, but sane humans find it repellent. So can the cheap smiles thinly covering the condescension and you might get a bit friendly reception. Cleaning up your agencies and stop trying to dictate every little aspect of people’s lives would help immeasurably as well.
We may be the ‘poorest’ state, but we are the most giving state. It has been said that even though Mississippi is the poorest state in the Union, that she is the most giving. What does THAT say about us? A LOT!
I am blessed enough to have been born and raised on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. I am SO proud to be a Mississippi Girl…I can’t think of any other place to live, but here. My husband and I have raised our four kids here, and am SO greatful to my Heavenly Father for putting us in the South. The South is SO beautiful in the Spring. It hurts my heart when people, who know nothing about us, cut us down, simply because of a past that no longer exists. The current administration in D.C. is SO corrupt it is scary. They’re like cockroaches on steroids, they don’t even scatter when the lights are turned on anymore, they just stand there in defiance. I am a conservative. I love my state, I love this country, and above all, I love my Savior, Jesus Christ! God bless y’all!!!
Right back at you, hon!
**grateful** Oops!
So much for states being able to pass their own laws.
When I was at Hopkins, the Nassau County crowd thought people that were not from there had Klan robes in their closets.
Fortunately, the Blue States not reproducing themselves, so we may be free of that dreary bunch in a few decades.
Boy! Everytime I read stories like this, about the entrenched lefties in the Federal Government in DC, it makes me think those guys who promoted patronage in the bad old days were onto something. Now we have a “non-partisan” civil service that’s anything but, and nothing can be done about them because they can’t be fired . . . ever . . . for anything short of killing their supervisors. The Ms Gyamfis throughtout the agencies will still be there when a Republican is elected, working diligently to undermine the president’s policies, hanging tough until the next naive but cunning racist Progressive twit like Obama gets elected. He’s done more to destroy prosperity in the South than anyone since Gen. Sherman. For him and the Gyamfis of his DoJ, it’s still 1955 in Birmingham and Hattiesburg and Atlanta.
I wonder if she knows that Hattiesburg has a black mayor and a black chief of police?
If she does, she would probably just call them “Uncle Toms” and think that would be a rational explanation.
Romney should therefore if elected completely raze the DOJ and start over . And any other part of the bureaucracy that would serve only to obstruct. The venal Bill Clinton did so with nary a peep from the old media .
They are all upset because they realize that the South was right after all.
I live in South Carolina and when I voted in our republican primary I was required to show a photo ID. I haven’t ever voted in a democratic primary but I wonder if I would have to show an ID then. The ladies that work at the Methodist church where I vote were incensed that there were dead people voting on SC (all African-American and I am Caucasian) I’ll have to see if I can vote in the democratic primary too…..
Romney won’d clean house. Paul will. YOU figure it out. If enough do, we’ll have a clean house within a few years. Paul has the guts to do it.
GIven his absolutely atrocious views on foreign policy(Paul-icy?) it would be more like “Burning down the house”
Mrs. Gumbi is obviously misinformed about Mississippi, its people, and its accomplishments. Probably never having been to Mississippi, Mrs. Gumbi can sit in her DOJ ivory tower and spew hate. What a double standard!
So. . they are saying its not the fault of himself and the employees for putting it there, its the fault of other people in actually LOOKING at what they typed and finding it.
Hmmm, wasn’t it Mississippi that had a recent case of a black politician committing voter intimidation against whites? What about that, DOJ?
*crickets*