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Tillis attacks voters, subverts the legislative process

Submitted by Jim Neal on Wed, 07/27/2011 - 11:20pm

The latest? In case you missed as relayed via Verla Insko the pm:

Yesterday NC's GOP-controlled state legislature failed to muster the 3/5th majority to overturn Democratic Governor Perdue's veto of a Voter ID Bill. Today the GOP made a back-door procedural maneuver to circumvent yesterday's vote. A series of local bills was moved into the Rules Committee, the purpose being to replace the contents of the local bills with the Voter ID requirements overridden yesterday.

The Governor cannot veto local bills.

All of this is chapter-and-verse voter suppression legislation nationwide driven the the Koch et al-inspired ALEC "think tank"- which disseminates policy-in-a-box model legislation.

Tillis moved to NC from VA in the '90s. Ex-IBM exec and partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Ran and elected in 2006; Speaker four laters. He's no fool, plays hardball and adept at procedural maneuvering. No point in whining about his legitimate leverage of the procedural rules to push conservative agenda; it's the agenda that is insidious and which should ignite more than letters, calls, blogs and the like. Some of you are old enough to remember civil disobedience- and its effectiveness? Just saying...

When I was a kid my mom taught me the politically-incorrect lesson that if a bully threatened me to punch him hard between the eyes and he'd never bother me again.

I did so only once. It worked. Long past time to take the gloves off.

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Now this demands a public outcry and lawsuit

Submitted by usna77 on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 5:58pm.

If I'm reading this correctly, the Republicans will introduce 100 local Voter ID bills?

Sorry, but this doesn't pass any kind of smell test whatsoever.

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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -- sign on Einstein's office wall.

I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work

Submitted by scharrison on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 7:54pm.

There should be a rule that says a local bill can't be passed against the wishes of the (specific) District's Representative. Way too many Dems for that to work.

If there isn't a rule like that, there's no point in voters even showing up at the polls...

We don't need a rule...

Submitted by usna77 on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 8:21pm.

... we need Home Rule, by Constitutional Amendment.

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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -- sign on Einstein's office wall.

Wisconsin Voter Suppression--need video on NC voter intim

Submitted by wafranklin on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 11:32am.

Great video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0G01zbHGM8

If you want to see voter suppression at work, watch this video from Wisconsin. We don’t know what the NC version of this will look like, but probably similar. This is voter suppression, pure and simple. It would really be a good thing for our legislators to see what harm they have done – but then they want as few people voting as possible, particularly minority, poor, elderly, etc. Is that not right Rick, Dan? (that dig was at my senator and representative republican white people's party types)

We need to get videos from a bunch of places walking some folks through the process, if they ever get the rules written. But, remember, the grand plan is to take over Board of Elections in September - so who know what these people will do.

wafranklin