“If we do it smart we will win every race in the state of Mississippi on the Democratic ticket."
For a long time in Mississippi people have used code words for things. "The late unpleasantness" was the Civil War. "Poll tax" meant keeping the poor from voting. "Outside agitators" meant civil rights workers. "One of us for all of us" meant for whites by a white. "Enforcing immigration law" means running brown people out of the state with torches and pitchforks.
So when a sitting attorney general (and state rube!) says, "If we do it smart" what does that mean?
It must mean...it can ONLY mean...that Samson believes that being a huckster, engaging in tomfoolery with the elections system, playing a little three card monte with the law...is perfectly ok. After all, he didn't say to people in the Greenwood Voters League (a group that is...shall we say...heavily Democratic) that he wanted them to vote early and vote often. He just said they had to be smart.
You know, like Ike Brown was smart.
As Josef Stalin supposedly said, "It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." But Uncle Joe didn't have to use code words, did he?
Whoa! I'm back. What happened?
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