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4 Nov 2014, 7:38 pm by Steve Shiffrin
Willie Horton is the poster child for the kind of appeals that have typified the approach taken by Republicans. [read post]
16 Aug 2017, 4:05 pm by Steve Shiffrin
The Republican Party has long engaged in covert racist appeals (Willie Horton, welfare queens, etc.), but it has not openly catered to the Klan or the Nazis. [read post]
21 Mar 2014, 5:18 pm by Colin O'Keefe
Horton Rehears a Who: NLRB Files Petition for Rehearing with Fifth Circuit – Joshua Seidman and Nadia Bandukda of Seyfarth Shaw on the firm’s Wage & Hour Litigation Blog The CFPB’s Debt Collection Complaint Report: Lots of Fury Signifying Nothing – Atlanta lawyer Christopher Willis on the firm’s blog, the CFPB Monitor Developing a Corporate Strategy to Address Known Risks – Arden Hills lawyer Tiffany Schmidt of Abrams… [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 5:09 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The blog Wilco Watchdog goes for the jugular vs. [read post]
24 Nov 2007, 10:44 am
A "Willie Horton" campaign moment (1988 ad here)is brewing against Romney. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 8:48 am by Bill Otis
I had hoped to start off the New Year with a hopeful story, but apparently it is not to be. [read post]
29 Jan 2016, 3:58 am by SHG
While Michael Dukakis was stuck in a photo op with an ill-fitted helmet, the opposition trotted out Willie Horton. [read post]
18 Oct 2006, 4:37 am
    Massachusetts is holding an election for Governor. [read post]
27 Aug 2008, 10:35 pm
I was around when the Willy Horton ads literally annihilated our candidate for president. [read post]
9 Feb 2016, 9:04 am by Bill
When Ronald Reagan went to Philadelphia, Mississippi for his first post-convention speech, when Bush pere ran the Willie Horton ads-- and on down the years, the conservative punditry was stitching together the monster that is now running amok. [read post]
23 Jul 2017, 1:42 pm
After the game, Tigers left fielder Willie Horton, a Detroit resident who had grown up not far from 12th Street, drove to the riot area and stood on a car in the middle of the crowd while still in his baseball uniform. [read post]
28 May 2012, 8:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
It's been a long time since this country has engaged in a serious discussion regarding the importance of constitutional clemency authority vested in the executive branch, at least unless you count the tired, Willie-Horton-esque "gotcha" coverage faced by the few governors and presidents who dare exercise their pardon power (usually timidly, and only as lame ducks). [read post]
6 Dec 2018, 9:20 am by Tom Smith
For some African Americans and Bush’s political opponents, the Bush legacy also demonstrates the way that pernicious allusions to race can influence elections and all the consequences for power and exclusion that follow.Bush’s tough-on-crime stance in his 1988 presidential campaign, including in his speeches and an ad from an outside group about a black criminal named Willie Horton, has been cited by many historians of racial politics and even some Republicans as… [read post]
22 Aug 2009, 8:47 am
  Here are some of the newest pieces I have noticed today: From CNN here, "California bill would free more than 27,000 inmates" From the Christian Science Monitor here, "Calif. lawmakers fight Schwarzenegger over crowded prisons" From the Sacramento Bee here, "Willie Horton haunts debate as California Assembly rejects prison cuts" [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 7:25 am by larrywalker
Willie Morris said it this way: “Like the cotton candy at the county fairs of one’s youth, it was all so wonderfully sweet, yet dissolved so swiftly. [read post]
3 May 2019, 8:15 am
Bush played on fears of Black male crime with the Willie Horton attack ad. [read post]
24 May 2011, 9:06 am by James R. Marsh
Message to campaign staff: review Willie Horton ad, take two aspirins and call me in the morning. [read post]