Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger penned a tongue-in-cheek letter to Larry David skewering his focus on his state’s election law in the final season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
HBO’s long-running comedy is coming to a close with its 12th season following 24 sporadic years on television. The overarching plot of the final season has been tied to the Peach State’s 2021 election reform law, specifically the highly-debated provision over providing food and water to voters waiting in line.
In the season premiere, David’s character is incidentally in Atlanta during an election where he encounters his friend’s Aunt Rae in the squelching heat while waiting hours in line to vote. After rushing to his car to get her a bottle of water, David is immediately arrested. The rest of the season shows David prepping for the looming trial and being celebrated by famous leftists in media and Hollywood.
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Raffensperger’s letter to David, first obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution through a public records request, takes aim at the harsh, and what he would argue, inaccurate depiction of Georgia’s election law.
“As the chief elections officer for the State of Georgia, we’d like congratulate you on becoming the first, and to our knowledge, only person arrested for distributing water bottles to voters within 150 feet of a polling station. We apologize if you didn’t receive celebrity treatment at the local jail. I’m afraid they’ve gotten used to bigger stars. It’s the TMZ of mugshots,” Raffensperger wrote in the letter released Tuesday, referring to former President Trump’s mugshot from Fulton County, which David’s character emulated.
“Given that Democrats have described the limited ban on food and water in voting lines as a threat to public health, we do hope that Leon’s aunt avoided a tragic death, even though that would allow you to keep those sporty…
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