Scott Brown outraged at prospect of poor people voting

trying to stop people from voting

It is "outrageous" to help poor people to vote when I am in a dead-heat election in a very blue state that I am likely to lose!!

IT IS OUTRAGEOUS I TELL YOU!!11!!!

I also believe in taking collective responsibility and speaking out against the new voting suppression moves, some of which appear clearly aimed against black folk, in the early voting periods that allow church groups to assist in taking "souls to the polls".

Besides not having the correct identification required under new onerous procedures ("poll taxes"), many elderly people are unable to get around on the poor public transportation systems both in the urban centers and the rural areas, where they may be non existent. Remember that such buses and the like may not even be available on Election Day, or run on greatly reduced "holiday" schedules. We all need now to plan accordingly to encourage people to get out and vote.

Hispanics are already intimidated by law enforcement and language barriers in some states or have become apathetic enough by false promises on immigration reform so that their increasing power as a voting bloc is already diminished instead of growing. Young people may be included in the apathetic group, and now disheartened as well, lacking in the idealism that was displayed so prominently in 2008, even beginning to consider nihilism.

These are not simply tactics, they're really being legislated into American law and therefore lay claim to the lame defense of "states' rights". But that's precisely what the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and it's subsequent extensions of Section 5 is designed to protect us from.

It now appears that we need the protection more than ever before, and in more states than originally intended, which is so sad, with the Republican party trying to drag us back to pre-Civil Rights Movement times, and even to earlier centuries in terms of women's reproductive rights. You can also intuitively feel that this is the real reason why the Republicans were clumsily going after our Attorney General Holder in a transparently false witch hunt, resulting in the congressional equivalent of a legal lynching holding him in contempt. It's no accident that he was picked to be made an example of the showing of Teapublican legislative power in an attempt to intimidate all those who oppose them.

It's also hauntingly ironic that AG Holder's sister in law Vivian Malone Jones was one of two African American women who were initially blocked from enrolling in the University of Alabama even when accompanied by Deputy AG Katzenbach with Governor Wallace standing in the doorway like some mad pit bull. Gov. Wallace then made a speech about States' sovereignty on the steps of that institution of learning, but had to stand aside when the Federalized Alabama National Guard escorted her back to the school, where she completed her degree, and again ironically enough became employed by the DOJ Division of Civil Rights. AG Holder also began his legal career at the DOJ.

Further irony that infuriates me is that AG Eric Holder, like General Colin Powell, is also from the Bronx, and of West Indian heritage. That's just me, having been a resident of that borough as well as all the others including right on the street where the West Indian Festival is held in Brooklyn. We should be celebrating these figures as role models, not censuring them time after time.

I will not quote Santayana again, but my import is similar.

Why is it that Republicans hate poor people so much? Don't they understand that, if you keep poking at them with a stick, they can get mad at you? I mean, come on. There is a long and well documented history of poor people getting really mad when they lose their fundamental rights.

I shouldn't have to cite anything.
But I will.

It's perfectly legal - unless he tries to pay them off.