Comment by Tundra — August 31, 2007 @ 11:09 am

I’m not sure why this particular embellishment is relevant. The re-election (the 80% one) mentioned on his campaign website was for his state senate seat in 2003. He is currently in his first term as Secretary of State, having been elected in 2006.

In any case, I find his behavior to be typical of Republicans in our time. In his zeal to disenfranchise likely Democratic voters, he is in violation of long-standing Federal legislation. He should be aware of this legislation, as it proscribes many of his activities as Secretary of State.

I share his – and your – desire to purge people who will no longer reside in New Orleans. He simply must follow the law to do so. However, since those affected were uprooted by the storm, are very numerous, and have a desire to return home, I believe a less strident adherance to the letter of the law is appropriate.

Comment by Kay — August 31, 2007 @ 11:24 am

Reagan’s world was a cinematic treatment of a Leave It To Beaver fantasy. This was a guy who believed that non-whites had it pretty good in this country and believed that if anyone wanted to get a job, all they had to do was look in the want ads. He also believed that corporations weren’t heartless greedheads and that they would obediently “trickle down” extra profit that came their way due to tax cuts.

AIDS didn’t fit into this world of his. There were no equivalent paradigms in his brain he could pull out to enable relating to it in any way. Therefore, it didn’t exist.

Ah ok. At least your not trying to defend the florida thing because its pretty indefensible.

Apparely in the current LA situation, there is some hoop they had to jump through before they started purging, that they didnt…given that the hoop is held by a republican administration,its probably an irrelevant hoop..but rules is rules I suppose.. and maybe there might be someone at the Justice Department who might notice (and care) if these disqualification attempts are being targeted toward minorities only, or if the criteria for disqualification is somehow slanted more toward matches that would wrongly exclude minorities. With the way this country is today, who knows? I do admit at this point its a mere educated guess… If homophobic senators can go trolling for blowjobs and mansex in public restrooms, I suppose anything is possible.

Uhhm it establishes a pattern of republicans engaging in questionable voting supression related actions
Personally I look at things on a case by case basis and don’t automatically say “Hey a Republican did this, so this guy is a Republican so he is wrong too” (Just as I don’t do with Democrats, I don’t use the Clinton did it too defense)

I think its entirely fair to be suspicious that perphaps displaced voters from minority districts are receiving more scrutiny than displaced voters from more white areas.
I fully agree, it is fair to look into it and see what is happening. I’m not saying that minority voters aren’t sometimes held to a tighter scrutiny (And not defending that practice either). But you can’t say “Don’t follow the law with him, because someone else isn’t following the law with others”

I’m not defending the Florida issues at all. Just the guy who told the people who voted for him 80% anyway. Hey only vote in one place.

Maybe we can FINALLY stop calling them “no-bid” contracts.

the only person who ever ran for anyting in florida?

the questionable, latinoless felon list was being used for more than one florida election…in fact, had the lawsuit not occured, who knows what it woudl still be being used for..

Although AIDS was first reported in the medical and popular press in 1981, it was only in October 1987 that President Reagan publicly spoke about the epidemic. By the end of that year 59,572 AIDS cases had been reported and 27,909 of those women and men had died. How could this happen? How could Reagan not say anything? Do anything?

Uhhm it establishes a pattern of republicans engaging in questionable voting supression related actions…oh nevermind…I guess people who see patterns get pegged as “conspiracy theorists”

I’ll admit I’m speculating, but given the how the election “tweaking” actions I mentioned have played out in the past, I think its entirely fair to be suspicious that perphaps displaced voters from minority districts are receiving more scrutiny than displaced voters from more white areas.

In any case, after multitudes of nationwide investigation, many of them very slanted toward being motivated to find voter fraud, there have been no cases of organized, high or even mid level voter fraud brought to light. A few low level volunteers in community groups have been charged, but thats it… several attorney gernerals (republicans), lost thier jobs because they didnt pursue voter fraud cases because they didnt feel there was sufficient evidence to proceed. So while “we’re preventing the scrouge of voter fraud” is a common right wing refrain, in reality, the alleged attempts to attack the alleged voter fraud have more often simply resulted in supression of minority (i.e. democratic) votes.

Comment by Jake D.

I posted the article link. It’s up to YOU to read it.

Or, like Shrub, must your “news” be spoon-fed to you?

and do you beleive republicans ever did it?
Yes, which again has absolutly nothing to do with this issue.

I think its hilarious you immediately assume that these voter challenges are legitimate…
Glad you find it funny, Sad that you think the policies in New Orleans should be decided by people who don’t live there anymore. I’m sort of a representation kinda guy, but hey to each their own.

you hear of the list of convicted felons that wernt allow to vote, that was drawn up secretly by the republican florida legislature and released only after a lawsuit, that strangely ommited convicted latino felons (latinos tending to vote R in florida)? You probably missed that little bit of chicanochicanery…
Nope know all about it, not quite sure what it has to do with this though. The Suit is against Jay Dardene’s policy. This is a guy who one reelection with 80% of the votes.

What I’ll never forget is the look on Bush’s face when he was just sitting there. He didn’t look very surprised, for example, did he? Wasn’t in too much of a rush to get briefed on the situation was he?

As far as Fred Thompson goes (ick ick ick) he does have three things going for him:
1) the AEI
2) a lot of scared right-wingers who love stern father-figures
3) the AEI

If he wins it’ll be due to his support from the neocon fear-mongers.

I know, I just wanted to yank his chain. Being a Vietnam vet, I have watched is gyrations around his “service” for a while with more than casual interest.

Dude… don’t waste your time.. if (when) he looses, he will just reincarnate as a young navy seal or a veterans widow. Aside from plagarizing, hes been asked numerous questions which a real veteran would know the answer to, and hes dodged them.