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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP voter supression efforts miraculously hit the mainstream press. CBS reporting...
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57447512-503544/in-wisconsin-reports-of-voter-suppression-efforts/JustAnotherGen
(31,931 posts)I'm having a rough day - am I reading this correctly?
"We need to get our rights back, we need to get our state back," says Laura H., a volunteer featured in the video.
On Tuesday, Mr. Obama took to Twitter to officially endorse Barrett. He wrote: "It's Election Day in Wisconsin tomorrow, and I'm standing by Tom Barrett. He'd make an outstanding governor. -bo."
Are they saying LAST Wednesday President Obama release a a gotv video?
Are they saying that President Obama is also mistaken about the correct day to vote?
Or did CBS just really screw up?
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Today is Tuesday, but Obama's tweet was last night.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)with a (D) after their name(s) ... despite having a big R all over their faces as they talk on video ...
JustAnotherGen
(31,931 posts)EC
(12,287 posts)last night.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Time for some kind of investigation into activities that
are maliciously intended to deceive and disenfranchise.
liberalnationalist
(170 posts)in this crime should get the death penalty
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,765 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)But the 1st 2 paragraphs make it very clear that it is attempted suppression of democratic vote.
And the quotes from both sides reinforce that, with Walker's side admitting to hearing about it and denying any involvement.
Heh. They will do more than fail. They will put a national spotlight on their dirty tricks well in advance of November.
sakabatou
(42,180 posts)daaron
(763 posts)(Just kidding!)
sakabatou
(42,180 posts)What?
daaron
(763 posts)Attempts to humiliate and degrade his prisoners.
Judi Lynn
(160,644 posts)He's too infantile to hold public office.
Thanks for looking for the photos. Never have seen them before now. Very strange.
Working at Guantanamo would be a paid vacation for him.
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)he'll be the first jailbird to go to a federal pen wearing pink panties.
I have to say that I never had any problem with Arpaio building a tent city for minor criminals, and I never had any problem with him withholding various food additives (salt, pepper, sugar, mayonaise and coffee) from convicts who misbehave, but the pink underwear and pink prison uniforms were FAR over the line. Humiliation is not an accepted corrections measure in any civilized society, and if they'd done things like that in the old USSR I'm sure Arpaio would have been screaming blue bloody murder about it.
Well, as such, I hope they send him to the federal pen wearing a Hello Kitty outfit, and put him in with the general population. Some of whom might have worn his pink underwear at some point. They can exchange experiences.
LiberalFighter
(51,141 posts)Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)The bastards doing this, need to be sent to Afghanistan and given a rifle without a firing pin.
matt819
(10,749 posts)All far right wing - it's all a lefty plot. You know, I think the book, The Republican Brain, was misnamed. Or maybe you can apply the tree falling in the forest analogy - if you have a brain and don't use it, is it really a brain? I mean, maybe in republicans, it's really just like an appendix. Doesn't serve a useful purpose and sometimes just has to be excised.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)Glory to God!
SunSeeker
(51,740 posts)chknltl
(10,558 posts)IMO, our biggest problem is the erosion of our democracy by unregulated capitalism. Any issues We The People face can be dealt with through our democracy. With the erosion of our democracy, especially through the propaganda machine and voter suppression (both symptoms of unregulated capitalism), We The People lose our ability to control our own destiny. I see no greater current threat to the human race than this given the profound influences environmental, economic, social and militarily the USA has on this planet. Well that's my two cents worth at any rate.
flpoljunkie
(26,184 posts)Have watched CBS exclusively since Pelley replaced Couric. He's fair to the President--a professional journalist and preferable to his counterparts on ABC and NBC.
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)We spend billions on the NSA trying to trace down the phone calls of a few flea-bitten terrorists, but it's impossible to trace down a gang of Karl Rove wannabees who are trying to subvert the democratic process of the United States?
I guess everybody is aware that the recent Canadian election was tipped by robocalls, and Canadian election officials (who are by law non-partisan) are actually working on finding out who did it. Why do law enforcement officials in the U.S. just shrug, smile, and say "boys will be boys?"
Surely robocalling to spread disinformation during elections is a violation of SOME federal election law?
spanone
(135,895 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)*sigh*