I’d like to take the opportunity, before we get closer to the 2012 election cycle and things change for the worse in the Buckeye State (and as I prepare to step off the grid, and into the mountains for the bulk of the week), to laud Ohio’s new Republican Sec. of State Jon Husted for his willingness to stand up for voters by bucking his party and standing against the polling place Photo ID restrictions the GOP is working to implement in his state.
Husted made his opposition plain in a statement late last month, after attempting to work with the General Assembly in order to craft an acceptable election reform bill [emphasis added]:
As The BRAD BLOG has had to explain far too many times over the years — as based on empirical academic studies and even hard data from George W. Bush’s own Dept. of Justice — legislation implimented in order to restrict access to the polling place as based, ostensibly, on assertions of the incredibly rare crime of voter impersonation at the polls, is meant to do nothing more than suppress voters — specifically, minority, urban, elderly, and student (read: Democratic-leaning) ones.
Some 18% of the country’s legal electorate in this country do not possess the type of IDs required by these laws, and are likely to be disenfranchised or forced to pay a poll tax in order to exercise their legal right to vote, even though polling place impersonation is almost as rare as unicorns and leprechauns.
To that end, while I suspect we may end up taking various issue with Husted’s positions or rulings in the future on related matters as the 2012 Presidential election looms in the always contentious state of Ohio, we’d just like to go on record for the moment here, to congratulate him for his intellectually honest stand on behalf of the voters of his state on this particular issue.
Thank you, sir.
P.S. Here’s a slightly — but only slightly — more cynical take on the above.
Yes, thank you, Mr Husted.
I hope you survive your imminent impeachment.
If the Legislature & Governor of Ohio goes ahead and passes this bill over the Secretary of State’s objections, the Secretary has the option of considering constitutional defects in the bill and not implementing it in whole or at all if, in fact, there is a federal or state constitutional problem.
Mark’s blog on name link (“The Most Important Grade;” 7/11/11)
“to go on the record…”
doesn’t exactly go well with
“… for the moment here”
Either you are on the record, carved in stone for eternity, or you are not on the record.
If the applicability of your statement needs to be unusually or especially limited you can make that clear in a variety of ways, and more cogent ways at that.
The 9/11 truth is out on the internet.
This is the truth: The WTC was destroyed by 3 underground thermo-nuclear explosions. They were detonated by the US government which used this as an excuse to lead the US and its allies into invading Afghanistan and Iraq. All these wars and deaths were based on a lie.
Goebbels: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
Will you help to tell the truth to the world?
http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=625926
http://www.911-truth.net/
Be sure to watch the 26 part video there.
#4 is on the built-in nuclear demolition scheme of the WTC
http://www.911-truth.net/911_WT...zov_part04.mp4
#14 in on Building 7, which collapsed even though no plane hit it.
http://www.911-truth.net/911_WT...zov_part14.mp4
#24/25 is on the chronic radiation sickness of the WTC responders
http://www.911-truth.net/911_WT...zov_part24.mp4
http://www.911-truth.net/911_WT...zov_part25.mp4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...layer_embedded
careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2011/05/911-comparing-building-implosions.html
JPP,
Good point. They do not allow dissent within the ranks.
great news, love officials that just do their job, care about the common good
totally off subject but great piece on pardon troubles for Bachmann and Pawlenty by local MN blogger
http://www.minnpost.com/mnblogc...rank_vennes_jr
Anonymous #4,
Read some official statements, from Senator Bob Graham, head of the intelligence committee, to Chairs of the 9/11 Commission, if you would like to stop your obfuscation of several realities.
really anon? ur gonna spew some robotic nine eleven nonsense on a story about Ohio politics?
sure, we all know it was an inside job, but the 1,500 plus Architects&Engineers at
http://www.ae911truth.org
……..will tell you it was nano-thermite, which was found in all dust samples. No nukes need apply.
As long as we are off topic, I came by to see if Brad had mentioned the “Fast and Furious” gun running scheme gone bad. Not real suprised the answer is no. Not-too-bright-Bart is having a field day with it. Just sayin’…..isn’t he like ur arch nemesis?
Thank you for you coverage Brad!
Voter suppression still in effect with HB 194:
ProgressOhio Blog
Stand up Again Ohio! Sign a HB194 Referendum Petition Today!
By Dave on July 15, 2011 9:42 AM
http://www.progressohio.org/blo...ion-today.html
Letter thanking N.C. Gov Bev Perdue for vetoing voter suppression bill in North Carolina while on subject of complimenting the elected for support of election integrity.
Don’t let N.C. lawmakers turn back clock on voting access
The writer is president of the League of Women Voters of Charlotte-Mecklenburg.
Since its inception in 1919, the League of Women Voters has worked to promote active and informed participation in government and to encourage citizens to vote. We are alarmed at current proposals by some legislators to limit early voting, end same day registration, end teen pre-registration, end Sunday voting, mandate voter ID, and limit provisional voting – all ways to limit voter participation.
Thankfully, Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed House Bill 351, the voter ID bill passed in June. Hopefully, she won’t have any more voter suppression bills to veto on her desk!
Bettie Anne Hayes
Charlotte
Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.co...#ixzz1ShMJtctl