This.

[sheshe2]

Link to tweet

Ethan Wolf
@ethanmwolf
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23h
It shouldn’t be that corporations can give unlimited funds to candidates while volunteers can’t give water to voters.

[LakeArenal]

1. LOGIC is no longer available at GOP.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

16. "Cruelty" is their new byword.

And the sadists who love them cheer.

[Hoyt]

2. Get the sentiment. But people need to put pressure on election officials

to make sure they provide water, etc. Even in Georgia they can do that.

Personally, I’ll carry my own water and maybe extra to hand out on the sly.

Again, like the tweet.

[sheshe2]

3. Dems to the rescue.

Three Democratic House members said they are prepared to get arrested to protest what they called a 'stupid law.'

Georgia Republicans on Thursday passed a sweeping voter suppression law that, among other things, makes it a crime to hand out food and drink to voters in line to cast their ballot.

In protest of the law, Democratic Reps. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said they will go to Georgia on Election Day next year to hand out water bottles to voters in protest of the new law.

https://americanindependent.com/house-democrats-vow-to-hand-out-water-to-georgia-voters-after-gop-makes-it-a-crime/

[brer cat]

4. We will be delighted to have them!

That is a very stupid law.

[sheshe2]

6. I may come down and pay you a visit.

We can all hand out water together.

[ShazzieB]

8. I would definitely be willing to do that if I didn't live so far away.

Or if I had unlimited funds for plane fare, hotel, etc. At my age, I need my creature comforts.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Twitter reply:

Link to tweet

[sheshe2]

7. Yup.

[Orrex]

14. Not so long ago...

there were a few vocal DUers who argued quite passionately that corporations should have the same rights as people, and that money is absolutely the same as speech.

[Rhiannon12866]

32. That's insane and something that I thought all of us opposed

And another reason why we need a majority in the Supreme Court...

[Orrex]

33. I feel the same

I won't call anyone out by name, of course, but it wasn't just one poster. I once got tag-teamed by three or four of them in a thread where I dared to suggest that maybe just maybe corporations shouldn't have all the same rights as actual people.

[Rhiannon12866]

34. Well, I've been here since 2003 and I would have imagined flaming would occur

If anyone tried to say that "corporations are people." Isn't that what we have been opposed to since Bush* was in office?

[Dustlawyer]

29. +1!!! Allowing campaign donations at all is why we cannot have nice things like Representatives

that look out for our interests instead of Donors.

[Nululu]

9. Can they sell water? Say 2 bottles for a dime?

[sheshe2]

11. This is all I have...

It's now illegal in Georgia to give food and water to voters in line

Under the bill, signed into law Thursday night by Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, it's now illegal to hand out food or water to people standing in line to vote.

"No person shall solicit votes in any manner or by any means or method, nor shall any person distribute or display any campaign material, nor shall any person give, offer to give, or participate in the giving of any money or gifts, including, but not limited to, food and drink, to an elector," the new law states.

The law applies within 150 feet of a polling place or within 25 feet of any voter at a polling place. Violators are guilty of a misdemeanor.

But some observers see the provision as an attempt to curb voting by urban voters and people of color who lean Democratic and whose precincts often have long waits to cast ballots.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/26/politics/georgia-voting-law-food-drink-ban-trnd/index.html

Are water and food givers a political party now? Do they ask for ID and request voter registration before they hand them a bottle of water? FFS!

[SunSeeker]

10. K & R & Retweeted!

[sheshe2]

13. Thank you my friend.

[Orrex]

12. I've made this point from day one

Additionally, the SCOTUS has ruled that giving food & water to homeless people is protected speech; how TF would the same not apply to giving water to voters?

[onecaliberal]

15. K&R

[Talitha]

17. K&R

[Blue Owl]

18. K&R

[RANDYWILDMAN]

19. Cruelty is the backbone of the GOP

Empathy has to be the backbone of the democratic party

[sheshe2]

20. Empathy is the backbone of the democratic party

[justgamma]

21. What bothers me most.

Why are the lines so long that you need food and water? They are making people wait in ungodly long lines. Someone needs to get to the bottom of that.

[sheshe2]

22. And they just made them longer.

I hear ya.

[calimary]

23. EXCELLENT point.

[sheshe2]

24. ...

[2Gingersnaps]

25. Jeez!

If a hard working candidate can't have Champaign, cocaine, and hookers.....what point would there be in being a Congressman? Right Matt Gaetz? Your Daddy takes care of your DUI's, and bought your office. You fierce defender of American morals! You need three martini lunches for a tax deduction! And you can pay for it by taking food stamps from kids! Right?

[Uncle Joe]

26. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread sheshe.

[Wednesdays]

27. Kudos to the OP.

Points off for the OP title.

[lsewpershad]

28. Exceptional America?

[Habitation]

30. ...

[Evolve Dammit]

31. Damn straight!