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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 10:01 AM Jun 2015

GOP candidates try, fail to respond to Clinton on voting rights

Last week, Hillary Clinton laid down what was arguably the most radical voting rights agenda in decades, calling for 20 days of nationwide early voting and automatic voter registration — a policy that would add over 50 million Americans to the voting rolls.

In her speech outlining the proposals, she also criticized her Republican opponents, by name, for “systematically and deliberately trying to stop millions of American citizens from voting” via the myriad ways in which they have tried to legally rig our nation’s elections through extensive legislation and bureaucratic indiscretion. From ID requirements to registration restrictions to poll taxes, Republicans have in no uncertain terms become the anti-voting party since Barack Obama’s election in 2008.

And they didn’t take too kindly to being called out over their anti-democratic platform.

Rick Perry responded to Clinton’s attacks by claiming that he was just the messenger.

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John Kasich denounced Clinton’s speech as “demagoguery” on Fox News before pointing out that Ohio has 27 days of early voting — a full week more than Clinton’s proposed 20 days.... Kasich, of course, failed to mention that Ohio has 27 days of early voting despite his best efforts as governor to shrink that number.

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Chris Christie insisted that Clinton “doesn’t know the first thing about voting rights”

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Jeb Bush has, thus far, said nothing in response to Clinton’s speech.

http://americablog.com/2015/06/gop-try-fail-respond-clinton-voting-rights.html

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GOP candidates try, fail to respond to Clinton on voting rights (Original Post) UCmeNdc Jun 2015 OP
K&R! stonecutter357 Jun 2015 #1
She knows who the enemy is...it's the Republicans Sheepshank Jun 2015 #2
Well put. Thanks. nt SunSeeker Jun 2015 #4
A scene I can imagine on U.S. television: DFW Jun 2015 #3
K & R SunSeeker Jun 2015 #5
 

Sheepshank

(12,504 posts)
2. She knows who the enemy is...it's the Republicans
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 01:21 PM
Jun 2015

She speaks out against them in definite terms and not in generalized party politics.

It's what we all should be doing...attacking Republicans and not the Dem Candidate that doesn't happen to be our favorite.

DFW

(54,399 posts)
3. A scene I can imagine on U.S. television:
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 02:39 PM
Jun 2015

Interviewer: "This is Cable Nightly Nonsense, and you're in the Degradation Room."

"Senator/Madam Secretary/Governor, you have come out in favor of universal voter registration for all American citizens. Why, and why now?"

Sanders/Clinton/O'Malley: "Too many Americans have been denied--and are still being denied--their right to vote, with the justification being anything other than the real reason: because they might vote Democratic. Sure, this proposal will benefit Democrats, but the only reason this is so is because the only ones trying to deny certain citizens their right to vote have been Republicans. If their policies are so wonderful, let them win elections with legitimate majorities of the voters. If not, they should improve their policies until the voters like them better than ours. But don't hide behind disallowing people to vote and then saying the people have spoken in your favor while you are forbidding some of them from speaking at all."

Interviewer: "OK, (generic Republican oaf), you have heard the Democratic argument for universal voter registration. Why do you oppose it?"

Generic Republican oaf: "Well, Wolf, it's obvious that this is not an attempt to get more Americans to vote, but really a rgtsxtl grbssch against the Republican Party, and this is borne out by the fact that a Fox poll showed that 127% of Americans przeszablxk sjrblax glrbbung, and libbruls are just ignoring it."

Interviewer: "Well, (generic Republican oaf), you certainly do have a valid point there, no question about it. We're out of time, so we'll have to leave it at that............"

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