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Call and response

I get emails!

Jeff,

We told you last week about Republican efforts to suppress the vote nationwide that could prevent 5 MILLION Americans from voting. According to the New York Times, the voter fraud Republicans say they’re preventing simply isn’t an issue. “The only reason Republicans are passing these laws is to give themselves a political edge by suppressing Democratic votes.”

The scary thing is, it just might work. Enough votes could be lost to states like Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Nevada and Virginia to hand the Senate – and the White House – to the GOP.

This news really struck a nerve with grassroots activists – we’re nearly halfway to our goal of 150,000 signatures. But we’re missing your name [...]

After you’ve signed, check out our brand new 2012 Election Protection Project website, where you can view maps of affected states, learn facts about the new laws, share information on Twitter and, most importantly, register to vote.

We’re starting to put together our voter outreach plans based on these new GOP laws, and I sure could use your help. Thanks in advance for signing and sharing. We’ll keep you posted on our progress.

Crystal King
DSCC Political Director

My response:

Crystal,

Glad to help! How many times should I vote to offset this nefarious plan by Republicans? Or if you prefer, I can probably cancel out a Republican vote by keeping at least one or two wingnuts from ever reaching the voting booth.

I have a big crawl space under my house. If you know what I mean.

Let me know!

Jeff

How soon before Crystal figures things out is anybody’s guess.

28 Replies to “Call and response”

  1. Blake says:

    Jeff, what’s your plan if Crystal takes you up on your offer?

  2. JHoward says:

    National coverage, Blake.

  3. Carin says:

    I read on drudge that we’ve got 25 states providing bilingual ballots for the 2012 elections. Why should the lack of being able to speak the native tongue prevent one from participating in erections?

    Asian Bangladeshi must be provided for the first time in Hamtramck, Mich, which neighbors Detroit.

    Oh goody!

    We would like to be in a society where everyone has equal opportunities to vote, but that’s not the reality we’re living in today,” said James Thomas Tucker, a former Justice Department attorney who is now a voting rights lawyer in Las Vegas.

    Yea, because the reality of learning the language in the country you live in is just ASKING WAY TOO MUCH. I’m sure one doesn’t need to be able to … you know … understand the literature on the topics up for vote … or understand what the candidates they are voting for are saying to make an informed decision.

  4. Crawford says:

    An approach first test by a famous Chicago Democrat fund-raiser… name escapes me, but I keep getting images of both a clown and a cowboy…

  5. Pablo says:

    Yea, because the reality of learning the language in the country you live in is just ASKING WAY TOO MUCH. I’m sure one doesn’t need to be able to … you know … understand the literature on the topics up for vote … or understand what the candidates they are voting for are saying to make an informed decision.

    Don’t you have to be proficient in English to become a citizen? And don’t you have to be a citizen to vote?

    Oh, right. I am a racist. It must have slipped my mind.

  6. Slartibartfast says:

    I have a big crawl space under my house. If you know what I mean.

    Being dead is no obstacle to voting D.

  7. Squid says:

    I have a niece who used to love to play Monopoly, though she had a curious habit of “miscounting” the die roll if it put her on Go To Jail or a property that I had a lot of houses on. When informed of her “innocent counting error,” she’d throw a fit and say she didn’t want to play “this stupid game” any more.

    Don’t know why that memory popped into my head just now…

  8. Alec Leamas says:

    Don’t you have to be proficient in English to become a citizen? And don’t you have to be a citizen to vote?

    It’s a requirement to become a citizen, not to be a citizen. If your momma snuck in to the U.S. from Mexico or China or wherever and you were born here, and raised in certain parts of the Country, you may never have attained a level of proficiency with the English language.

    That this itself is not a damning comment on our insane immigration policy escapes me, but there you have it.

  9. Alec Leamas says:

    Oh, and Jeff’s response made me shoot hot green tea out of my nose.

  10. Pablo says:

    That this itself is not a damning comment on our insane immigration policy escapes me, but there you have it.

    That’s not our immigration policy, that’s our flawed 14th Amendment. Man, we’ve managed to screw the perfectly good pooch that was our Constitution. The Framers has the foresight (or was it just common sense?) to put a “This part applies only to people who are here right now” clause in the original. If only they had the sense to recall that in the 1860’s.

  11. leigh says:

    Carin, the state constitution of California mandates that voting materials be available in Spanish as well as English. It has been that way since the State was admitted to the Union.

  12. DarthLevin says:

    Alec and Pablo clearly don’t have hearts.

  13. Obstreperous Infidel says:

    No, Darth, they’re just shriveled and blackened husks of what they once were before conservatism got to them. Oh, shit I said “blackened”. Denounced. I’ll self flagellate, later. Or something.

  14. Carin says:

    Carin, the state constitution of California mandates that voting materials be available in Spanish as well as English. It has been that way since the State was admitted to the Union

    Well, then I can add one more reason, to an ample list, why I dislike California.

    because the truth of the matter is that if you cannot understand English well enough to follow a ballot, you cannot be informed enough for your vote to be anything but a vote for whom you’ve been told to vote.

    Who can understand Herman Cain’s argument if he doesn’t understand English. It’s insane.

  15. Drumwaster says:

    the state constitution of California mandates that voting materials be available in Spanish as well as English.

    I’d like to see article and section cite on this, please, because my copy of the California State Constitution (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.const/.article_3) clearly states:

    CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
    ARTICLE 3 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

    SEC. 6. (a) Purpose.
    English is the common language of the people of the United States
    of America and the State of California. This section is intended to
    preserve, protect and strengthen the English language, and not to
    supersede any of the rights guaranteed to the people by this
    Constitution.
    (b) English as the Official Language of California.
    English is the official language of the State of California.
    (c) Enforcement.
    The Legislature shall enforce this section by appropriate
    legislation. The Legislature and officials of the State of
    California shall take all steps necessary to insure that the role of
    English as the common language of the State of California is
    preserved and enhanced. The Legislature shall make no law which
    diminishes or ignores the role of English as the common language of
    the State of California.
    (d) Personal Right of Action and Jurisdiction of Courts.
    Any person who is a resident of or doing business in the State of
    California shall have standing to sue the State of California to
    enforce this section, and the Courts of record of the State of
    California shall have jurisdiction to hear cases brought to enforce
    this section. The Legislature may provide reasonable and appropriate
    limitations on the time and manner of suits brought under this
    section.

    Not that the Democrats who run the State let little things like Constitutions stop them from fracturing the society into enclaves based on culture and language, to make it easier to play one against the other, but still…

    (I have spoken with various election officials who have stated that it is because of DoJ mandates that areas like Los Angeles have to make voting materials available in as many as 14 different languages, not anything done by the State.)

  16. JD says:

    Exactly what legislative acts have Team R passed that will suppress and/or deny leftists the right to vote?

  17. McGehee says:

    JD, what they’re complaining about is that we haven’t let them arrange to have political elections by card check.

  18. leigh says:

    Darleen may be able to help. I left CA when I was in my 30’s, to beat the rush eastward, so perhaps I am misinformed. That was something we were always told, so maybe it is false received wisdom?

  19. LTC John says:

    #9 – You need to offer that as a New Age theraputic procedure. “ThermoTay-nasal” or somesuch. Use some hippy brand of tea – organic, fair trade and all that.

    Requiring ID is an AFFRONT TO ALL THAT IS DECENT!!11!1 – except when buying tobacco, getting into movies, buying alcohol, getting into a casino, getting a senior discount, buying Nyquil, checking out a library book…

  20. Squid says:

    Forget a simple ID check — I wanna see tax returns that show taxes paid in.

  21. agile_dog says:

    Several hours have passed, and not one of you commented on Carin’s typo?:
    Why should the lack of being able to speak the native tongue prevent one from participating in erections?

    heh.

    As for the email: the voter fraud Republicans say they’re preventing simply isn’t an issue – those cases of more votes being cast then registered voters should cause any actual American shivers of fear. Anyone who doesn’t insist on “clean” elections (only those entitled to vote actually voting) isn’t a friend of our system.

  22. JD says:

    I just figured Carin was lusting after Pablo again.

  23. mojo says:

    Squid: See Heinlein’s “Starship Troopers”

  24. Spiny Norman says:

    mojo,

    I finally saw Paul Verhoeven’s blasphemous “adaptation” of Starship Troopers a few weeks ago. What a steaming pile of shit. It was every bit as bad as people had warned me it was. Verhoeven hasn’t made anything good since Soldier of Orange 34 years ago. That includes Robocop and Total Recall.

    I think the word “gratuitous” best describes his body of work.

  25. happyfeet says:

    really? I thought it was a cool movie cause of it had giant space bugs… but if you want to see Starship Troopers done for reals you need to check out “Space: Above & Beyond,” which was brilliantly done and deserved a 3rd season

    you will like it very much I promise

  26. SDN says:

    There’s also an animated (HALO style) version called “Roughneck’s”. It came out after the movie but is a good bit closer to the book.

  27. McGehee says:

    The most laughable thing in that phony Troopers movie was they needed a mind-reader to know that the captured brain bug was afraid.

  28. bh says:

    The most disappointing thing was that Denise Richards wasn’t in the shower scene.

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