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A senator snatched a student’s phone while being asked about Georgia voter registration uproar


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/14/senator-snatched-students-phone-while-being-asked-about-georgia-voter-registration-uproar/?utm_term=.4dfdf0a2534a

Gee, I was under the impression that taking another person's property without that person's permission was theft.

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The Washington Post
Amy B Wang October 14 at 9:51 PM

attempted conversation between a Georgia Tech student and Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) ended abruptly with the lawmaker snatching the student’s cellphone away while he was being asked about possible voter suppression in the state. The senator’s office has said the exchange, part of which was captured on video, was a misunderstanding.

On Saturday, a student member of the Young Democratic Socialists of America at Georgia Tech approached Perdue, who was visiting the Atlanta campus to campaign for Brian Kemp.

Kemp, a Republican and Georgia’s secretary of state, is locked in a tight gubernatorial race with Democrat Stacey Abrams, a former state lawmaker. The race attracted additional scrutiny this week after the Associated Press reported that more than 53,000 voter registration applications were in limbo with Kemp’s office; the overwhelming majority of those applications are for African American and other minority voters, according to an AP analysis.

Abrams has accused Kemp of voter suppression and of using his position to try to swing the gubernatorial race in his favor. Kemp has defended his office by saying it was simply complying with an “exact match” state law that requires election officials to put a registration application on hold if there are even minor discrepancies with existing records (for instance, a typo or an extra hyphen in a name).

Polls show the race between Kemp and Abrams is a toss-up.

On Thursday, the controversy escalated when a coalition of civil rights groups sued Kemp over the exact-match law, arguing that it disproportionately and unfairly affects minority voters.

This is evidently what an unnamed Georgia Tech student had in mind Saturday when he approached Perdue and began asking about Kemp, while recording video on his cellphone.

“Hey, so, uh, how can you endorse a candidate — ”

That was as far into the question as the student got. Before he could continue, Perdue snatched the phone out of the student’s hands, as evidence shows in a video.

Today @sendavidperdue visited Tech to campaign for Kemp. A student tried asking a simple question about @BrianKempGA 's racist scheme to threaten voter registrations from black people, but before he could even finish the question, Perdue stole his phone. pic.twitter.com/K0iffU57Di

— YDSA Georgia Tech (@YDSAGT) October 13, 2018
“No, I’m not doing that. I’m not doing that,” the senator can be heard saying in the cellphone recording.

stole my property,” the student tells Perdue. “You stole my property.”

“All right, you wanted a picture?” the senator replies.

“Give me my phone back, Senator,” the student says.

“You wanted a picture? I’m going to give it to you,” Perdue continues, ignoring the student’s request “You wanted a picture?”

“Give me my phone back, Senator,” the student repeats.

At this point, the video rights itself again, apparently because the student is reunited with his phone. By then, Perdue is walking away, on a crowded pedestrian pathway.

“That’s U.S. Senator David Perdue. U.S. Senator David Perdue just snatched my phone because he won’t answer a question from one of his constituents,” the student can be heard saying as he follows Perdue for a short distance. “He’s trying to leave. He’s trying to leave because won’t answer why he’s endorsing a candidate who’s trying to purge people from voting on the basis of their race.”

On Sunday, Perdue’s office characterized the exchange as a misunderstanding and said the senator had spent several hours meeting with hundreds of people at a Georgia Tech game over the weekend.

“The senator spoke with many students and answered questions on a variety of topics,” Perdue spokeswoman Casey Black said in a statement. “In this instance, the senator clearly thought he was being asked to take a picture, and he went to take a selfie as he often does. When he realized they didn’t actually want to take a picture, he gave the phone back.”



If you believe that I can get you a classic bridge in Brooklyn for real cheap!

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Don't try to tell me the only way left is up.
There's always more down!

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