Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger nonetheless has a bit little bit of a bone to choose with Curb Your Enthusiasm star-creator Larry David over the present’s depiction of his state’s ban on giving voters meals or water.
Within the first episode of Curb’s remaining season, David invoked Georgia’s newly handed 2021 regulation as he’s proven getting arrested after giving his buddy Leon’s aunt a bottle of water as she waited in line to vote. “That’s barbaric, what kinda regulation is that, are you critical?” David says as he’s being taken away by two cops. The next trial towards David’s character extends all through the present’s remaining season.
Throughout an interview on the New Yorker’s Radio Hour podcast this week, Raffensperger instructed David to “clear up your personal home earlier than you begin selecting on Georgia,” citing New York’s comparable state regulation which additionally prohibits distributing meals and water to ready voters. He additionally mistakenly referred to New York as David’s dwelling when he has truly lived in California for many years.
The Secretary of State had beforehand reached out to David with a cheeky letter after viewing the episodes, writing, “We’d wish to congratulate you on changing into the primary, and to our information, solely individual arrested for distributing water bottles to voters inside 150 toes of a polling station.”
“I informed him principally, ‘I’m sorry that he didn’t get a extra heat welcome and VIP therapy that some celebrities and athletic stars get once they spend just a few instances—just a few hours in Fulton County jail,” Raffensperger informed The New Yorker’s David Remnick on Radio Hour, describing the word he despatched.
He went on to explain among the points he had with David’s depiction of the voter regulation. “I’m certain he loved that and I loved [writing] a letter again to him,” Raffensperger mentioned. “However right here’s actually the very fact about it, that is what’s actually loopy—is that in New York state, you can not give anybody a bottle of water inside the 150 foot zone” of a voting location.
He additionally defended the regulation itself, saying, “In Georgia what we discovered although, is it wasn’t the water concern, it was actually politicking points. Individuals have been electioneering inside the 100 foot zone. They seize a bottle of water, however then they’re coming in blazin’ with their t-shirts and you realize what trigger they’re supporting, they usually’re there attempting to cite, ‘contact’ voters another time earlier than they go in to vote.”
“Simply go away individuals alone,” he suggested. “Let individuals make their very own choices. And in order that’s actually why we wished to make clear that with state regulation.”
Finally although, he drove dwelling his level that David ought to, primarily, thoughts his personal enterprise. “Perhaps subsequent 12 months David want to go as much as upstate New York and speak about their legal guidelines,” Raffensperger added, “That’s his dwelling state you realize. Clear up your personal home earlier than you begin selecting on Georgia. Now we have proven that we have now truthful, trustworthy and correct elections.”
Larry David could have been born in Brooklyn however has lived in Southern California for the previous a number of many years.
