Old Problem, New Day
Looks like the same folks are back at it trying to suppress the vote. The House passed a Voter ID Bill on yesterday after hours of much debate. This legislation would require voters to present 2 forms of identification to cast a ballot in the absence of a voter registration card. In addition, it would require voters that did have a voter registration card to present identification to cast a ballot. The proponents of this bill believe that it will fight off voter fraud. However, this bill is nothing more than a modern attempt to surpress this vote. This is nothing more than a strategic effort that has taken place nation wide by conservatives. The bill was put forth 2 years ago in the state of Georgia and other states around the country. The bill also passed the House of Reps in Texas two years ago, but was defeated in the Senate after a threatened filibuster by State Sen. Rodney Ellis. Communities of Color and the elderly will be the highest demographic by this piece of legislation. Althought the methods have changed, the game remains the same. Someone once told me that if it wasn’t important to vote that people would not have tried so hard to keep it away from us. This speaks to the issues of the day, where see the same old problem of attempted voter surpression.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Has anybody taken note of the contrast between the Governor’s and the Legislature’s response to the scandal at TSU and their response to the scandal at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston? The scandal at UTMB involved a lot more people, a lot more wrongdoing and a whole lot more money. It also resulted in a lot of innocent people losing their jobs. TSU is going to be put into conservatorship. UTMB? Well, the Legislature dumped literally tens of millions of EXTRA dollars into the laps of the corrupt incompetents at UTMB to mismanage, and the Governor hasn’t had a word to say about that particular scandal, let alone try to hold the people responsible accountable. I wonder what the difference is?