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BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
2. Lest we forget the Conservative strategy in order to win power: Paul Weyrich's speech:
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 11:16 AM
Apr 2015
Weyrich is widely regarded as the “founding father of the conservative movement.” He founded ALEC and co-founded the Heritage Foundation, Moral Majority, Council for National Policy, and Free Congress Foundation, among others.

Speaking more than 30 years ago at a right-wing conference in Dallas, Weyrich set out the case for voter suppression. The right-wing and GOP are still acting on it to this day.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/i-dont-want-everybody-vote#sthash.MLu0Qn2K.dpuf

"I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

Botany

(70,447 posts)
3. Least we forgot that the company DBT which stripped tens of thousands of African Americans
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 11:19 AM
Apr 2015

..... from the voter lists now has one ot its former workers as head of the Florida Democratic
Party and she was put there by Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

GeorgeGist

(25,311 posts)
5. If there are anthropologists in Earth's future ...
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 12:13 PM
Apr 2015

I believe they will mark this event as a pivotal in humanity's extinction by stupidity.

 

chapdrum

(930 posts)
6. thanks zebonaut
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 02:24 PM
Apr 2015

for this ever-pertinent reminder. To me, it is demoralizing that GWB and his backers have gotten away with so very much.
Wee example: One of those people bellowing at the FL Sec State (or election) office to "shut it down" (the FL recount) was
future "Ambassador to the U.N." - John Bolton. And the repurposed, reinvigorated NSA. And a million Iraqis dead. And...
All can be tied to W and his seditious family. Cue the crickets.

INdemo

(6,994 posts)
8. The hell of it is 2016 could be another election decided by eelction fraud
Wed Apr 22, 2015, 06:03 PM
Apr 2015

theft. The Koch Bros are spending a billion on this election are not about to lose this one.
Nothing had been done since the last election theft in 2004 and technology is so much more advanced that it becomes even easier to switch votes without a trace of election fraud.

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