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Gothmog

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2. Gov. Goodhair wants President Obama to aplogize for comments about Poll Tax
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 04:54 PM
Jul 2012

Gov. Goodhair is demanding that President Obama apologize for Attorney General Holder's comments about the Texas poll tax being a poll tax http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/07/rick-perry-obama-texas-voter-id-law-eric-holder-/1?csp=34news

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is welcoming President Obama to the Lone Star state by asking the Democrat to apologize for Attorney General Eric Holder's comment that the state's voter identification law is a "poll tax."

Perry, a Republican who ended his presidential bid in January, blasts Holder in a statement posted on his gubernatorial website. He said Holder's words, made during a speech to the NAACP last week, "inflame passions and incite racial tension."

"Perhaps while the president is visiting Texas, he can take a break from big-dollar fundraisers to disavow his attorney general's offensive and incendiary comments regarding our common-sense voter identification law," Perry said. "The president should apologize for Holder's imprudent remarks and for his insulting lawsuit against the people of Texas."

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