Sebelius vetoes voter ID law.
By on May 19th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Sebelius vetoes voter ID law.
Today, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) vetoed a bill that would require voters starting in 2010 to show identification at the polls. In her veto message, she said, “[N]o elected official should support enacting new laws discouraging or disenfranchising any American who has been legally voting for years.” Sebelius added that the bill “seeks to solve a problem of voter fraud which does not exist in our state.”
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Obama/Sebelius 2008
May 19th, 2008 at 4:36 pmHooray for Kathleen Sebelius! No doubt she will get a whole lotta flak from the righties in her state, claiming that she supports voter fraud, but since no problem of voter fraud exists in Kansas (or any other state that I know of), I hope she stands firm.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:38 pmLadies and Gentlemen, our next Vice President of the United States!
May 19th, 2008 at 4:40 pmWhere I'm originally from, we'd chareachterize that veto decision as "the dogs bollocks!".
Believe it or not, that means it's a good thing!
May 19th, 2008 at 4:40 pmHurrah for her!! Iron ovaries, baby!! ;o)
May 19th, 2008 at 4:43 pmWe need to organize a group to go after the lies coming from the right on voter fraud. We have not yet done it and we will be vulnerable to the right's tactics until we do.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:45 pmYou go Girl! Kathy rocks!
May 19th, 2008 at 4:47 pmNot everybody supports a propaganda agenda!!!!!!
May 19th, 2008 at 4:48 pmThank God for Democracts !!!!!!
I think Republicans should have to show ID to prove they are human.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:49 pmJMOHR Says:
We need to organize a group to go after the lies coming from the right on voter fraud. We have not yet done it and we will be vulnerable to the right’s tactics until we do.
Agreed! The low information voters on the right probably do think there is fraud - because Limbaugh and Beck tells them so. Reality is not a GOP tradition.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:49 pmHey Thomas Franks: What's the matter with Kansas?
Nothing!
Check back in November, though...............
May 19th, 2008 at 4:50 pmI, too, think Ms. Sebelius would be a great choice for VP.
How do we get our opinion to Obama?
May 19th, 2008 at 4:51 pmBravo! Hats off to Sebelius, she did the right thing.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:58 pmCan the Supreme Court interfere here like they did in Indiana?
May 19th, 2008 at 5:02 pmBy the Way....among the states with the BEST Economy..is Kansas. Kansas grows lots of crops, which are at record high prices, and it has lots of smaller gas and oil wells, which are also at...well you know.
May 19th, 2008 at 5:03 pmJobs at good wages are plentifull, and safe thriving communities abound. If Ms. Sebalius wants to run for elected office Nationally, she's in good shape to do it.
WHY do the Democrats not start advising EVERYONE to vote ABSENTEE?
It's what the Rapeublicans do.
The State of Washington offered it to me as an option, and I took them up on that.
It would ELIMINATE Diebold, etc...
May 19th, 2008 at 5:07 pmyeh Arn Gunnutes, but they'd invaildate your absentee vote. It happened to me in Ohio 2004
May 19th, 2008 at 5:15 pmOh Christ Badger, get a life! Thomas Frank surgically demonstrated what was wrong with your state. Mega Agri. has decimated your small towns. Garden City, Great Bend are ghost towns. Only your rapacious drilling for your short term salvation has elevated your state to that of MI or West VA
May 19th, 2008 at 5:19 pmGovernor Sebelius was one of the earliest to see the change coming.She defected from the GOP to the Democrats back before it was fashionable -- back before it was a no-brainer. She has proven to be one sharp cookie.
Does anyone else find it weird that the Republicans are so all-fired-up about a movement (voter ID) that essentially puts another layer of government in between a citizen and a common act? One might tink they'd be suspicious of such an infringement... could it be that they're not really the "small government" crusaders that they claim to be?
May 19th, 2008 at 5:34 pmAble as,
I am not in Kansas. I'm just repeating what I heard on the News. When Thomas Franks wrote his book, corn was $2 a bushel (now $4) and oil was $60 a bbl.
As I understand it, a lot of smaller, previously marginal small private oil wells are now providing the owners/farmers with a good income.
As for Mega Agri...Frank's is not doubt correct...but they are making Lots of Money Now.
My only first hand experience with Kansas was flying over it, but Iv'e heard that things have changed since Franks wrote his book.
May 19th, 2008 at 5:39 pmHow courageous! The axemen of the voter suppression demagogues will be trying to pull her down into the slime where they dwell!
May 19th, 2008 at 5:56 pmFinally, a DEM. with some BRASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 19th, 2008 at 5:59 pmSebelius added that the bill “seeks to solve a problem of voter fraud which does not exist in our state ”.....
Or until Diebold makes all their voting machines.
May 19th, 2008 at 6:24 pmRed Pill Says:
Obama/Sebelius 2008
yes!
record number showing at Obama's rally in Portland, 75,000! see pics here
May 19th, 2008 at 6:31 pmFrom NPR's Morning Edition-April 25 2008
"While bad economic trends sweep most of the nation, there's one place where things are booming: western Kansas."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89917902
May 19th, 2008 at 6:36 pmshoeless Says:
I think Republicans should have to show ID to prove they are human.
Or subject themselves to a skin peel to make certain they aren't lizard aliens in V disguises...
May 19th, 2008 at 6:51 pm>they aren’t lizard aliens in V disguises…
great series.....the movie wasnt so good...
back on topic, unless they make the necessary id's free, its a poll tax and thus unconstitutional...
May 20th, 2008 at 3:47 amThe problem doesn't exist; the law just serves to disenfranchise poor, sick, and elderly people.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:50 am