Ted Yoho: Voting should be limited to property owners and there's a conspiracy to stop voting

[ck4829]

Recently unearthed footage of Rep. Ted Yoho speaking at Berean Baptist Church in Ocala, Florida, during his candidacy for Congress in the 2012 election cycle shows the Republican politician suggesting that only property owners should have the right to vote.

“I’ve had some radical ideas about voting and it’s probably not a good time to tell them, but you used to have to be a property owner to vote,” he said to applause.

Later in the event, an audience member asked Yoho about the Bilderberger Group, the center of a popular conspiracy theory. The audience member claimed the group “wants to take us down,” and asked, “What do you think our chances are in the next two years of being able to vote?”

“That’s a scary question and that’s one of the reasons I’m running for Congress, because I fear for this country,” Yoho replied. “I grew up believing in the American dream, I’m a product of the American dream, no one gave my wife and I anything…we worked our tail off and we didn’t expect anything from the government.” (In fact, Yoho has admitted that he and his wife at one point “went on food stamps.”)

Yoho had a similar response to the next questioner who inquired about why he is running for Congress: “I fear for the country, two and a half years from now we may not be able to vote.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/candidate-congress-ted-yoho-suggested-limiting-right-vote-property-owners

So, a group of people saying there's a conspiracy to stop people from voting... and they applaud it when they reminisce about the time when there were people who couldn't vote but can today? I think I know where the conspiracy is.

[leftyohiolib]

1. so they guy who thinks only property owners should vote is afraid that the right to vote will

be taken away?

unreal: I’m a product of the American dream, no one gave my wife and I anything…we worked our tail off and we didn’t expect anything from the government.” (In fact, Yoho has admitted that he and his wife at one point “went on food stamps.”)

[GeorgeGist]

2. Yoho ho ...

and a bottle of rum.

[Arkana]

10. More like a bottle of dumb.

Ted Yoho is apparently trying to unseat Louie Gohmert as "Dumbest Fuck in Congress".

[TheNutcracker]

3. Non property owners still pay taxes and have a right to say how those dollars are spent!

[jwirr]

4. And it is especially different now because so many live in the urban areas instead of the country.

[central scrutinizer]

7. especially since home ownership is subsidized by tax breaks

the mortgage interest deduction is worth thousands per year to most home buyers. While those of us who have paid off our mortgages or renters usually don't have enough deductions to make it worthwhile to file schedule A.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. He can still vote if he has a vald, state-issued photo id.

[Octafish]

6. Fascism is the New Feudalism

The way old slaves were treated helps explain the attitude toward older workers, social security, the poor, the disenfranchised...



Yoho macht Sklaven.

[klook]

13. What an incredible letter!

Thanks so much for the link to that thread, which I missed the first time around. "Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hire." Indeed.

[Octafish]

18. UD Mercy Theatre dramatized it.

http://liberalarts.udmercy.edu/programs/depts/performing_arts/theatre/season/play1/

Great show. Good people all.

[Gothmog]

8. The GOP wants to limit voting

Here is a great quote from the founder of ALEC that sheds a great deal of light on this issue

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

9. So a conservative, a member of a group purporting to stand for the rights of the individual

Wants to take a right away from a group of individuals. Can you say, "Hypocrite", boys and girls? I knew you could.

[dbackjon]

11. So we buy an acre of land, and sell for 1 penny a square inch to everyone.

woo hoo - we are all property owners!

[Initech]

12. This part bothered me more than the feudalistic banter:

"Recently unearthed footage of Rep. Ted Yoho speaking at Berean Baptist Church in Ocala, Florida"

Hello IRS? Where are you????? How can these megachurches continue to get away with this?

[YOHABLO]

25. Excellent Excellent Point .. Yes, when will we rein in these churches that break the law?

[GeoWilliam750]

14. I wonder if they realise

That in the Republican party there are probably only 500 (and possibly as few as 50) votes that matter.

I hope that we are better.

[frylock]

15. how about only property owners pay your bloated salary, assface?

let's see these fuckwads applaud that.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. Just as background: Yoho's district includes part of Gainesville

Which is home of the University of Florida, where many younger voters live in dorms and rental apartments, and who traditionally vote....you guessed it....Democratic.

[RainDog]

17. oink n/t

[vankuria]

19. Let this guy

go tell active military living on bases they will have no say in our elections and see what happens.

[okaawhatever]

20. Anyone notice how he got up in a church and lied before God and everybody? He said "no one gave

him any help" and yet he received food stamps. Hmmm.....

[YOHABLO]

26. Ha! That was pretty stupid. But then what do you expect.

[Delmette]

21. What about non-citizens?

A lot of property in the USA is owned by foreigners, non citizens. Would this dip-shit give them the right to vote?

[geretogo]

22. This Psychopath is straight out of the 1750's . People like him need to be locked up as terrorists .

[Mnpaul]

23. We are all property owners

We own 87% of Nevada.

[blkmusclmachine]

24. Straight up "Christian Dominionism."

Beware.

[YOHABLO]

27. No doubt in my mind that that is what they want .. and by God they're going to get it.

.

[liberal N proud]

28. All republicans know that the only way they can win elections is to limit voting

They want to limit it to those who they KNOW will vote for them.