Bill Clinton: GOP Voter Crackdown Worst since Jim Crow

[Stuart G]

Talking Points Memo:
Benjy Sarlin | July 6, 2011, 6:04PM

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/bill-clinton-accuses-gop-of-disenfranchising-minorities.php?ref=fpblg

Former President Bill Clinton weighed in on Republican efforts in several states to pass new restrictions on voting, comparing the measures to the Jim Crow laws of the past.

"There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the Jim Crow burdens on voting, the determined effort to limit the franchise that we see today," Clinton said in a speech at a Campus Progress conference in Washington.

He specifically called out Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) for trying to reverse past precedent and prevent convicted felons from voting even after they've completed their sentence.

"Why should we disenfranchise people forever once they've paid their price?" Clinton said. "Because most of them in Florida were African Americans and Hispanics who tended to vote for Democrats. That's why."


here is a link to the entire speech..lasts one hour and 31 minutes..it is at C-SPAN

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/ProgressN&showFullAbstract=1

[aquart]

1. They can read polls. If WE vote, THEY lose.