{"id":5178,"date":"2007-10-19T12:46:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T19:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5178"},"modified":"2007-10-21T04:13:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T11:13:45","slug":"john-minorities-die-first-tanner-tells-berkeley-audience-presumably-with-straight-face-minorities-face-obstacles-when-attempting-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5178","title":{"rendered":"John &#8216;Minorities Die First&#8217; Tanner Tells Berkeley Audience (Presumably With Straight Face) Minorities Face Obstacles When Attempting to Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/JohnTanner_UCBerkeley_101807_obstacles.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">As we <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5162\">mentioned earlier this week<\/a>, the embattled DoJ Civil Rights Division&#8217;s Voting Rights section chief, John Tanner, was scheduled to speak to an audience at UC Berkeley&#8217;s Latino Policy Forum yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/sharticle.php?id=26498\">report this morning from <em>The Daily Californian<\/em>&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Tanner focused on the continuing relevance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.<\/p>\n<p>He said he worked in the department when the act was passed and shared insight on &#8220;how bad it was for African Americans&#8221;\u009d at the time, adding that some minority populations continue to face obstacles when attempting to vote.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve yet to speak to anybody who was actually at yesterday&#8217;s event, so no word at this time on whether or not John Tanner clarified the point that one of the great obstacles minority populations face when attempting to vote is, in fact, John Tanner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned earlier this week, the embattled DoJ Civil Rights Division&#8217;s Voting Rights section chief, John Tanner, was scheduled to speak to an audience at UC Berkeley&#8217;s Latino Policy Forum yesterday. According to a report this morning from The Daily Californian&#8230; Tanner focused on the continuing relevance of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,321],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dept-of-justice","category-john-tanner"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}