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chalky

(3,297 posts) Tue Jul 17, 2012, 09:17 PM Jul 2012

Anything Mitt can do pRick can do better: Perry Demands Apology for Holder's 'Poll Tax' Remarks

While President Obama visits Texas to raise campaign cash, Gov, Rick Perry would like him to apologize to the state for remarks that Attorney General Eric Holder made before the NAACP Convention in Houston a week ago.
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According to a press release from his office, Perry demands that Obama disavow a statement from Attorney General Holder that the Texas voter ID law, currently in litigation, is the equivalent of a "poll tax" because it is so discriminatory against minorities. Perry accuses Holder of attempted to incite racial tensions in Texas. Hence he demands an apology from Obama for Holder's statement and the law suit brought by the Justice Department against the voter ID law.

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-gov-perry-demands-apology-holders-poll-tax-174700720.html

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Anything Mitt can do pRick can do better: Perry Demands Apology for Holder's 'Poll Tax' Remarks (Original Post) chalky Jul 2012 OP

Hope we get some rain soon. white cloud Jul 2012 #1

Thanks, white cloud. Where are you located? chalky Jul 2012 #2

According to Goodhair, using the term poll tax encourages racial tension Gothmog Jul 2012 #3

Spoken by the guy whose hunting camp was named what? hobbit709 Jul 2012 #5

Juanita Jean is having some fun with this Gothmog Jul 2012 #4

She always has fun when our Fearless Leader opens his mouth. hobbit709 Jul 2012 #6

white cloud

(2,567 posts)

1. Hope we get some rain soon.

Reply to chalky (Original post)

Tue Jul 17, 2012, 11:14 PM

Jul 2012

WElcome Chalky

chalky

(3,297 posts)

2. Thanks, white cloud. Where are you located?

Reply to white cloud (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 17, 2012, 11:47 PM

Jul 2012

I'm in Austin and in the past couple of weeks we've been getting quite a bit of rain. I hope it keeps it up.

Gothmog

(145,529 posts)

3. According to Goodhair, using the term poll tax encourages racial tension

Reply to chalky (Original post)

Wed Jul 18, 2012, 09:23 AM

Jul 2012

The GOP has been using the politics of racial division for a long time and the poll tax/voter id law is designed to keep minorities, the poor and the old from voting. Goodhair does not want Attorney General Holder to talk about the Texas poll tax because votes may realize what the GOP is up to. http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/rick_perry_eric_holders_voter_id_comments_incite_r.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) accused Attorney General Eric Holder Tuesday of calling the state’s voter ID law a “poll tax” in order to “inflame passions and incite racial tension.”

In a written statement, Perry called on President Barack Obama to “disavow his Attorney General’s offensive and incendiary comments” about the voter ID law, which seems likely to be blocked by a federal court under the Voting Rights Act.

“In labeling the Texas voter ID law as a ‘poll tax,’ Eric Holder purposefully used language designed to inflame passions and incite racial tension,” Perry stated. “It was not only inappropriate, but simply incorrect on its face.”

Goodhair and the GOP are worried that minorities may realize that the GOP is out to steal their right to vote. Texas Democrats need to keep on talking about the facts here to make sure that voters realize that the GOP is out to steal elections by denying the poor and other voting groups the right to vote

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

5. Spoken by the guy whose hunting camp was named what?

Reply to Gothmog (Reply #3)

Thu Jul 19, 2012, 06:13 AM

Jul 2012

Republican and hypocrite are completely interchangeable terms.

Gothmog

(145,529 posts)

4. Juanita Jean is having some fun with this

Reply to chalky (Original post)

Wed Jul 18, 2012, 06:10 PM

Jul 2012

http://juanitajean.com/2012/07/18/yoo-hoo-rick-shuddup-jerk/

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

6. She always has fun when our Fearless Leader opens his mouth.

Reply to Gothmog (Reply #4)

Thu Jul 19, 2012, 06:16 AM

Jul 2012

"Eric Holder said that the Voter ID bill in Texas is a poll tax. News flash: he ain’t the only one saying that. Hell, Rick, I’m saying that and you ain’t getting no damn apology from me either. If I have to pay $22 for a copy of my birth certificate in order to get an allowable ID to vote, that right there is what we call a damn poll tax.

And Rick Perry runs with scissors a little more —

[Texas lawyer John] Hughes offered a semi-defense of literacy tests after one judge said that the reason literacy tests were racist years ago was because of inequalities in the education system. The judge asked if it was Texas’ theory that there would be a problem with literacy tests today. Setting aside other laws banning literacy tests and poll taxes, Hughes said he did not believe a literacy test would violate Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.

When the State of Texas is arguing that it can charge someone $22 and give them a literary test to vote, it is not President Obama who should be apologizing."

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