Doctor_J
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Mon Apr-26-10 11:32 AM
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Palast: AZ goal to disenfranchise Latinos |
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http://www.gregpalast.com/Don't be fooled. The way the media plays the story, it was a wave of racist, anti-immigrant hysteria that moved Arizona Republicans to pass a sick little law, signed last week, requiring every person in the state to carry papers proving they are US citizens.
I don't buy it. Anti-Hispanic hysteria has always been as much a part of Arizona as the Saguaro cactus and excessive air-conditioning.
What's new here is not the politicians' fear of a xenophobic "Teabag" uprising.
What moved GOP Governor Jan Brewer to sign the Soviet-style show-me-your-papers law is the exploding number of legal Hispanics, US citizens all, who are daring to vote -- and daring to vote Democratic by more than two-to-one. Unless this demographic locomotive is halted, Arizona Republicans know their party will soon be electoral toast. Or, if you like, tortillas.
more... http://www.gregpalast.com/
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Mon Apr-26-10 11:37 AM
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1. It seem that this would seal the Republicans' fate... |
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They are motivating all the Spanish speaking people of the USA to vote against them forever.
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Mon Apr-26-10 11:53 AM
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Mon Apr-26-10 12:07 PM
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3. Repugs are always shooting themselves in the foot |
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This is just the latest example.
Another one is choosing Steele to be the RNC leader.
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Mon Apr-26-10 01:07 PM
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4. No, they're moving to have no Spanish-speaking people allowed to vote |
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with this SCOTUS, I wouldn't rule it out.
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Sun May-02-10 07:11 PM
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5. shouldn't there be a certain threshhold of people denied the right to vote that triggers... |
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an automatic federal civil rights investigation?
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Sun May-02-10 09:24 PM
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6. This is yet another reason I love Mexico and Mexican people. |
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They vote Democratic.
And I went to Tijuana just this morning to procure a little unobtainium.
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