...Oregon, has sidestepped the controversy – so far. (click title to entry - thank you) But a group of activists, connected to the right-wing Cascade Policy Institute and the Oregon Tea Party, is trying to change that. The U-Choose Education Forum has issued a six-point criticism of Oregon elections with suggestions it calls, “improvements,” – including requiring voter ID.
The move is the first step in a campaign intended to persuade Oregonians that the state’s election system is rife with abuse. Next step is a meeting, titled, “When Does 1 and 1 make 3?”...
Those stating they walk in the light of God when they discriminate and hate, they are not moral what so ever at all. If God gave them the challenge to accept difference and share their cloak with all; then it is very clear they are not moral and do not engage in the words or works of any god I am familiar with.
JOHN DEAN, a Justia columnist, is a former counsel to the president.
...There is absolutely no question (click here) that Republicans are trying to suppress non-whites from voting, throughout the Southern states, in an effort that has been accelerating since 2010. It is not difficult to catalogue this abusive Republican mission, which unfortunately has spread, in a few instances, to states above the Mason-Dixon Line as well.
Nor is there any doubt whatsoever about why Republicans are doing this, since the demographics of the states where it is happening suggest that it is becoming increasingly difficult for white descendants of the Confederacy, with their puppet conservative politicians, and for conservatives in general, to retain control of government.
Frankly, I find this voter suppression disgusting. Southern conservatives, who now control the GOP, have succeeded in destroying the party of Abraham Lincoln, with its once long and proud tradition of seeking to extend the voting franchise, not restrict it....
