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I agree, but the tendency to challenge the actions of Republicans when the party that purports to support African American interests is stabbing the community in the back seems wasteful.
I wouldn't advise African Americans to vote Republican. However, I simply can't wrap around the idea that no person in the African American community is asking the hard questions of the Democrats.
I’m not sure how many town hall meetings you’ve been to be in Los Angels we hold our Democratic officials accountable. If they make important promises they don’t keep they’re called to task for it…
I’m not sure how many town hall meetings you’ve been to be in Los Angels we hold our Democratic officials accountable. If they make important promises they don’t keep they’re called to task for it…
I think that's part of the point I'm making: the promise that matters is not being made nor is anyone demanding that it be made. What's up with that?
That was an isolated incident. That was blown up to stoke racial fears.
This is a systematic effort by right wing groups to lobby for legislation that makes it more cumbersome to vote in all 50 States.
NY Times
The rise of the super PAC parallels a subtle but concerted effort by conservative groups to suppress the vote, which are disguised as efforts to defeat exceedingly rare voter fraud. A 2011 study by N.Y.U.’s Brennan Center found that 14 Republican-dominated states have approved new legislation requiring higher standards for voter identification. The center estimates that five million people could find it more difficult to vote this year.
There’s a close connection between these efforts and super PAC funders, too. In some 30 cases, state lawmakers received model “voter fraud” legislation from a conservative networking group called the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC has received funding from Koch Industries, which is run by the conservative siblings of the same name who have reportedly pledged $60 million to defeat President Obama this fall. Given donation restrictions to campaigns, much of that money would have to go to super PACs.
I was really shocked when I found a couple of posters on the Post Office wall about how far the State of Kansas is willing to go to help non-drivers to go so they can vote. You do have to have picture ID here this year and sure enough they are bending over backward to help people get ID with pictures on it. One would have thought that a solidly Republican state like this one wouldn't do anything like that from reading the whining and howling Democrats have been doing about that method of keeping Dems from voting. You people almost had me fooled.
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