NH GOP Seeks To Disenfranchise Students Who 'Just Vote Their Feelings'

[The Straight Story]

NH GOP Seeks To Disenfranchise Students Who 'Just Vote Their Feelings'

At a January 9/12 event with local tea partiers, the Republican House Speaker in New Hampshire, Bill O'Brien explained his problem with young voters.

"They go into these general elections, they'll have 900 same day registrations, which are the kids coming out of the schools and basically doing what I did when I was a kid, which is ," he said. "They don't have life experience and they don't have life experience and they just vote their feelings and they're taking away the town's ability to govern themselves, it's not fair."

The remarks were caught on tape by a tracker with the New Hampshire Democratic party, but up until today they haven't caused O'Brien much embarrassment.

Now, though, the national media has caught up with a major story in the Washington Post. The New Hampshire House is trying to put those words into law, with two bills designed to disenfranchise young voters -- one to disallow them from voting if they or their parents haven't established residency in that district, the other to disallow same-day voter registration altogether.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/nh-gop-seeks-to-disenfranchise-students-who-just-vote-their-feelings-video.php?ref=fpb#

[Vinca]

1. This is but one of many, many teabagger-inspired bills that have been

introduced by the newly-elected reich-wing government. New Hampshire has gone from red to blue to demented red in just a few short years. Time to consider selling out and moving across the border to Vermont.

[Angry Dragon]

2. republican political scum

[Overseas]

3. Teabaggers just vote the Koch Brothers' feelings.

Disenfranchise them first.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. The DU software has removed the vital words, which are 'vote liberal'

They're in square brackets in the original, so the cut-n-paste to DU has omitted them. It should read:

"the kids coming out of the schools and basically doing what I did when I was a kid, which is (vote liberal)"

And that's the thing - he's saying it's not fair allowing students to vote in student towns, because they vote liberal.

[Marr]

5. If students tended to vote Republican, I doubt he'd have a problem with their feelings.