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http://www.wral.com/colin-powell-rips-nc-elections-law/12806467/<snip>
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell blasted North Carolina's new elections law on Thursday, telling Gov. Pat McCrory point blank it was wrong for him to sign it.
Powell was the keynote speaker at the CEO Forum in Raleigh, and his comments came shortly after McCrory delivered the opening address to the gathering of business executives from across the state.
The sweeping law calls for voters to present photo identification at the polls, cuts the length of early voting and ends same-day registration and straight-ticket voting. It also makes changes to campaign finance and advertising regulations and sets up a separate presidential primary in February.
Powell ridiculed the notion that IDs are needed because of rampant election fraud.
"What has come out of the legislature is that fraud is widespread and undetected," he said. "How is fraud widespread if it's undetected? How can it be undetected if it's widespread?"
The moderate Republican, who worked under former President George W. Bush, said the law will ultimately hurt the GOP by pushing key groups of voters away.
"What has come out of the legislature is that fraud is widespread and undetected," he said. "How is fraud widespread if it's undetected? How can it be undetected if it's widespread?"
malaise
(267,810 posts)livetohike
(22,084 posts)One doesn't need Logic 101 to figure this one out .
malaise
(267,810 posts)Glad he did it days before the 50th anniversary of the march.
Peacetrain
(22,836 posts)What happened to that state.. it has gone so far over the edge
Edit to add
We have been tv less for the last few days.. and someone told me that she was going to be broadcasting from there tonight..
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)forestpath
(3,102 posts)malaise
(267,810 posts)He's correct re voting rights and the real ReTHUG agenda.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)He does not deserve to be place on the public stage by anyone from the left. Doing so imo just tells the world that we condone his actions.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)but it's still interesting to see the modern descendant of the Party of Lincoln determined to undo reconstruction and the Civil War.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)leftstreet
(36,078 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)malaise
(267,810 posts)Should be lively
G_j
(40,366 posts)he is a lying disgrace
malaise
(267,810 posts)Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)List of African-American Republicans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_Republicans
malaise
(267,810 posts)Remember CondiLIAR's folks said not one word during the height of the civil rights struggles including the deaths of those little girls.
Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)Bucky
(53,795 posts)He believes that, if he loves the Party with all his heart, he can change them, make them good and wholesome again, and then he can win them over once again. I love true romantics. But at some point you gotta realize their interest is in winning, not governing, and in controlling the population, not encouraging real democratic processes to flourish.
SunSeeker
(51,368 posts)KG
(28,749 posts)tclambert
(11,080 posts)But if you believe strongly enough, Tinkerbell will live!
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)With both feet flailing about without giving appreciation for the spoken words. My goodness, there seems to be Faux news bashers here.
Skittles
(152,964 posts)he lost his credibility when he aided Dubya in pimping for senseless war
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)What they need to hear. It just might losen the GOP from strangling the Democrats with voter suppression which will result in more votes for our candidates.
You can't change your childhood, you can't change last year or even last week but we can wake up tomorrow and let tomorrow be the beginning of a new world for us.