Republican shill explains Voter ID. Never would have thought of it.

[mojowork_n]

It's only a few lines in a post in the "comments" section that
followed a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel news story, but I
never would have that of this as a reason for Voter ID,
on my own.

Apparently, it's just one more Reverse-Robin Hood (steal
from the poor, for the benefit of corporate shareholders)
scheme:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/photos-on-quest-cards-would-help-reduce-fraud-7v3qo05-137624523.html?page=1#!page=1&viewAll=1&sort=newestfirst

You have to understand what was behind the voter ID law. Currently public records are not available for names and addresses of foodstamp users. We could not for example under freedom of information request public records on those receiving foodstamps and the value of that assistance by person to perform our own investigation to check for fraud. Voter ID is a debt collection tool to require more to register with public records resources to exercise the right to vote... ...Less will vote as a result of Voter ID because they do not want their current addresses on file with a public records resource. You could put a photo on a foodstamp card, allow it to be used for voting. Personally do not feel it would matter to bring more poor to the polls because they fear debt collectors. In America its a felony to be poor, owe money, be homeless and be on foodstamps.

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Clicking the Poster's ID ("Republican Pirate&quot shows that he or she
(or maybe a gender-neutral pronoun, "it" would be equally
appropriate) shows that this is one pompous gasbag of a serial
poster on this site...

Interestingly, posting while at work (on Taxpayer's Dime) was
one of the reasons the local county District Attorney gave for
the John Doe probe into (then) County Executive Wanker's
administration. (It's been extended to include his activities
in Madison, since the beginning of 2011, but that's another
story.)

[Scuba]

1. I no longer visit jsonline....

... due to their fees, but before I left, the blogs were taken over by far right-wing Charlie Syke-ophants and the hateful comments were obnoxious beyond belief.

I don't miss it at all, despite some fine journalism by JS writers (e.g., Great Lakes cov'g).

[mojowork_n]

2. John Gurda's great one or two Sunday's a month,

or whatever his infrequent schedule allows; I still like Gene Kane and
Jim Stingl can be ok, but many more have left (Stanford, Stuart
Carlson, Joel...) than remain. When they pulled "Doonesbury" from
the Sunday funnies I said that was it. But I still read the paper
from the basket at Starbucks.

I finally had to subscribe (dirt-cheap rate) to avoid paying them even
more when I bought copies to read sports coverage. That's the one
part of the paper that almost always does an excellent job, and
the last few months -- WI sports teams have really been on a roll.

I'm not sure, but I think they have "limited" free views of articles now.
You only get to click so many links to their coverage, from the same
computer, every month.