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Missouri GOP leader calls Ferguson voter-registration drive 'disgusting'
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Cyrano
(15,035 posts)What I find disgusting is the Republican Party as it exists today.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)Republicans are so full of shit, I'm afraid it might cause a fusion reaction. Hey, maybe that's our future power source...
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)perfection.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)I agree with your sentiments, Cyrano.
gordianot
(15,237 posts)There was Teddy Roosevelt, a brief flirt with Eisenhower a constant downward spiral from that time. Shame is there needs to be two parties and people need choices.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)The voter registration people have been out there almost from the beginning. Good for them. Voting is the answer (well, one of the answers, smile).
ffr
(22,669 posts)Register, motivate, & GOTV!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)There really is no analog in the animal kingdom to the modern Repuke party. Each animal, even the vultures that eat roadkill, performs some vital function in the cavalcade of life.
Nature has no need for pig-ignorant, scum-sucking asshole tools of the plutocracy/kakistocracy, and that is the only niche the Repukes fill.
santamargarita
(3,170 posts)Of course he sticks it in one of their rigged voting machines.
malthaussen
(17,194 posts)Hell, you don't even have to read between the lines on that one.
-- Mal
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,957 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)MatthewStLouis
(904 posts)People feel powerless. They feel like they are not in control and have no say in their local government. How do reasonable people try to fix that?
By making it easier to vote! Not by making it harder!
They disgust me.
Voting is actually a vital part of the "ownership society". One of their few decent ideas.
DrBulldog
(841 posts)... because it was reported that less than 10% of the eligible black voters in Ferguson voted in the last elections.
Elections have consequences.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)You have been reading actual human history, haven't you? Good for you!
drm604
(16,230 posts)How can any thoughtful and intellectually honest person believe otherwise?
This is how the system works. if the government screws up or is outright malignant, the public gets to vote them out. That's how the system works, GOP!
Kali
(55,008 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Doesn't matter that the people voted for Clinton TWICE.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)to their community, then I don't know what is.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,957 posts)Of the take over of the party of Abraham Lincoln by the Dixiecrats.
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)They've tried just about everything they can to stop African-Americans from voting
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Ferguson Community leaders: Civic engagement is the ultimate ansewer. We're.We're trying to make young people understand that this is how to change things."
Matt Willis: if that is not fanning the political flames, I don't know what is. i think its not only disgusting but completely inappropriate.
Then he probably said to other GOP politicians and the police: " Tear gas these volunteers and pepper spray them. Nothing worse than black people voting, makes my skin crawl."
jonjensen
(168 posts)Liberals want to talk about health care protecting the environment child welfare ect. conservatives want to legislate voter suppression laws so those people can't vote. You see the difference in ferguson missouri. When democrats win congress they want to do good when republicans win congress they want to pass laws to stop people from voting and tell democrats what are you wimp liberals going to do about it except whine!
santroy79
(193 posts)I love seeing this. The more people we can get to vote the better.
That is what is truly wrong with this country. Not enough people vote and we are stuck with the few that vote getting their way.
In off Presidential election years so few vote and we get stuck with all these Republicans in office while the country is Center left if not center way left.
Cha
(297,196 posts)thanks for highlighting EarlG
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)eom
glowing
(12,233 posts)with your backward types of politicians who only know how to say no... I know, Republicans are just upset that this murder of Mike Brown may actually call out to young people within African American communities to begin effecting the changes they wish to see within their communities from local levels to state wide levels; including Justice positions and ADA positions and police dept leaderships. It's way past time that they do take up their American Civic duties... Frankly, more young people do need to pay attention and vote and run for offices. Sitting on the side lines and watching the rigged game won't change that rigged game!
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)and said they were registering people so they could join Clive Bundy and defend the second amendment?