GOP Criticizes Student Vote Campaign

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041027/ap_on_re_us/students_vote_campaign&cid=519&ncid=2043

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MILWAUKEE - Republicans are criticizing a Wisconsin get-out-the-vote campaign involving public school students, saying Democrats are exploiting the students for political gain.



Young people in the program organized by the Wisconsin Citizen Action Fund take time from regular classes to go door to door in minority neighborhoods and areas with historically low voter turnout, urging people to cast ballots.


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Chris Lato, spokesman for the state Republican Party, called the program "a disgraceful use of taxpayer money."


"To spend this time on a clearly partisan effort when these kids should be in school learning is shocking," Lato said.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Other version: "How DARE those young whippersnappers...

Get involved in politics and act responsibly! Why, when I was their age, I was snorting Texas Gag Rails and getting screwed, standing up, in the stalls in the rest rooms of nightclubs!"

[leftchick]

3. lol....

:)

[krkaufman]

2. Ummm... Could there be a better way to learn about democracy...

... than to actually participate in it?

What a transparent schmuck.

[sisenor]

4. Mmmmmhhh. . . so getting out the vote is now a partisan activity?

That's because Republicans know the more people vote, the less of a prayer they have.

Like Bush said, it would be a lot easier for him if this were a dictatorship

BUT IT IS NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[brooklynite]

5. Hypocrisy 101

Chris Lato, spokesman for the state Republican Party, called the program "a disgraceful use of taxpayer money."

hmm, seems to me I remember another example of using students for political gain...

A friend with a child in the Richland County,WI high school where George Bush appears today reports the following. Students were told they could not wear any pro-Kerry clothing or buttons or protest in any manner, at the risk of expulsion.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1176512

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. Not anyone's fault but the GOP's that the GOP has alienated so many.

[maddezmom]

7. you can smell the desperation

:)

[HereSince1628]

8. Shocking! Why would anyone encourage voter participation????

This could only be some action on the far far "left-ern" shore of Wisconsin "politiks."

Watch for the GOP brown shirts (shorts??) to make their move.

[Javaman]

9. Here's a disgraceful use of tax payers money 200+ billion for a war!

Assholes

[aden_nak]

10. So much for the big tent.

Isn't he admitting here that minorities don't vote Republican? I mean, isn't that inherent in his complaint?

[Maeve]

11. Reality imitates art--too like the Onion article

http://theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4043&n=1

Republicans Urge Minorities to Get Out and Vote On Nov. 3

MIAMI, FL—With the knowledge that the minority vote will be crucial in the upcoming presidential election, Republican Party officials are urging blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities to make their presence felt at the polls on Wednesday, Nov. 3.

[colonel odis]

12. it's ok to exploit 9/11 deaths that your sorry ass could have prevented

for political gain.

but encouraging students to vote isn't ok?

just trying to get straight how the republican mind works .......

[Endangered Specie]

13. They can go suck my ass.

Ill canvass till doomsday.

[Coventina]

14. They hate us for our freedoms!

:P

[flobee1kenobi]

16. I have 2 problems

1-Aren't they volunteers? What the hell is he sqawking about tax dollars for?

2-Whats stopping the repugs from doing the same? If they want to state their side-do it! no one is stopping you!

Mabey they really are trying to make VOTING a bad thing.

[enki23]

15. how dare they try to get minorities to vote. shocking.

how do republicans know they won't be voting republican? i don't understand? doesn't the republican party appeal equally to *all* races, religions, and ethnicities?

[sattahipdeep]

17. I would be more concerned about

the person in portland that was being paid to
collect voter registrations from citizens that
register republican....throwing away the registrations
of people declairing other affiliations.

[ParanoidPat]

18. "a clearly partisan effort"

http://www.wi-citizenaction.org/

About WCA

Who We Are - Wisconsin Citizen Action is the state’s premier public interest organization, dedicated to social, economic and environmental justice for all. Citizen Action unites the political clout of its 74,000 individual members and 207 affiliate organizations into a significant grassroots force for social change around key issues and elections in Wisconsin.

Mission Statement - Wisconsin Citizen Action is a statewide public interest organization dedicated to social, economic and environmental justice for all. We unite the political power of our members with the power of a diverse coalition to: win improvements that matter in our daily lives, give people a sense of their own power to shape the future, and alter the relations of power to favor people over wealthy special interests. Our strategy is to build majoritarian power around issue and electoral campaigns.

Our Members

Wisconsin Citizen Action has 70,000 individual members. They come from all over Wisconsin, from each of our ninety-nine state assembly districts, and from all walks of life. They are rural and urban, young and old, lower, middle and upper income, male and female, multi-racial, and of different faiths and political persuasions. 45% are Democrats, 34% Republicans and 17% independents.

Yep that's "a clearly partisan effort" in my book! :crazy:

[yellowcanine]

22. Only if they are only knocking on doors with Kerry signs. Are the pubs

suggesting that targeting minority communities with historically low voter turnout is somehow partisan? What does that say about them?

[mumon]

19. Memo to Republicans:

Bite me.

[Supersedeas]

20. when civics amounts to exploitation & Political security trump Civic duty

[havocmom]

21. GOP message to young Americans: "STFU and put on this uniform...

No point in taking time to register and vote, that whole voting thing is obsolete, so eighteenth century! Just do what you are told and don't bother to think for yourselves. What you think or want doesn't matter to us."

Young Americans:
Uncle Corporation Wants YOU!*

* to be fodder in their planned never-ending wars of empire. Might as well, there won't be any real possibility of decent employment even with your new degrees.