Bill Clinton likens GOP effort to Jim Crow laws

babylonsister

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Bill Clinton likens GOP effort to Jim Crow laws

Bill Clinton likens GOP effort to Jim Crow laws

Bill Clinton called out proposals in battleground states like Florida and Ohio. | AP Photo\

By DARREN SAMUELSOHN | 7/6/11 1:08 PM EDT

Former President Bill Clinton Wednesday compared GOP efforts to limit same-day voter registration and block some convicted felons from voting to Jim Crow laws and poll taxes.

In a speech to liberal youth activists Wednesday, the former president called out proposals in battleground states like Florida and Ohio that could limit the voter rolls.

“I can’t help thinking since we just celebrated the Fourth of July and we’re supposed to be a country dedicated to liberty that one of the most pervasive political movements going on outside Washington today is the disciplined, passionate, determined effort of Republican governors and legislators to keep most of you from voting next time,” Clinton said at Campus Progress’s annual conference in Washington.

“There has never been in my lifetime, since we got rid of the poll tax and all the Jim Crow burdens on voting, the determined effort to limit the franchise that we see today,” Clinton added.

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Tx4obama

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Wed Jul-06-11 11:00 PM
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1. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz got called out in June for using a Jim Crow analogy

DWS: GOP wants to bring back 'Jim Crow'
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0611/DWS_GOP_wants_to_bring_back_Jim_Crow.html?showall

Wasserman Schultz retracts Jim Crow analogy
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0611/Wasserman_Schultz_retracts_Jim_Crow_analogy.html

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babylonsister

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Wed Jul-06-11 11:07 PM
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4. Oh well... the Big Dawg has her back now. nt

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Drale

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Wed Jul-06-11 11:02 PM
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2. Indeed they are but

Wasn't he just praising some of the GOP's "finest" the other day?

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babylonsister

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Wed Jul-06-11 11:04 PM
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3. Politicians-go figure. nt

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stevedeshazer

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Wed Jul-06-11 11:17 PM
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5. I'm glad he said it.

I wish Obama would say it.

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saras

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Thu Jul-07-11 02:16 AM
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6. Wasserman-Schultz was right the first time. Her apology was wrong.

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