Rick Pollitt: Do You Approve Anthony Brown’s Blatant Race Baiting?

We’re asking him because Mr. Pollitt is not just a supporter of Brown – he’s Brown’s local campaign manager.

Here’s how the Frederick newspaper (News-Post) views this outrageous conduct by Mr. Pollitt’s leader:

In the latest round of questionably cheap politics in a tight race that has apparently left them nowhere else to go, the Maryland Democratic Party finally played the race card, The Daily Record reported Friday, sending out a mailer to voters in Charles and Prince George’s county bearing a couple of segregation images from the Civil Rights era alongside a “Must show ID to vote” sign and a picture of Donald Trump next to a billboard asking, “Where’s the birth certificate.”

“In Maryland, it’s our turn to take an important step in the journey,” the flier states, a none-to-subtle reference to Brown, who would be the first black man to hold the state’s highest office.

“It’s making a direct appeal to race and clearly targeting black voters,” John Bullock, an assistant professor of political science at Towson University told the Record.

Reducing one man’s qualifications for holding office to skin color, and encouraging voters to vote based on that simplistic assertion is blatantly racist, whether dressed up as a civil rights achievement or not. This is lowest-common denominator politics at its worst. We thought the state had already hit the bottom of the barrel, but with [more] days to go to Nov. 4, there’s deeper to go.