North Carolina Passes the Country’s
Worst Voter Suppression Law

Recently, the North Carolina legislature passed the country’s worst voter suppression law after three (3) days of debate.

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CONGRATULATIONS, NORTH CAROLINA! 

YOU ARE #1

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Why, You’ve Outdone Florida!

This is the most sweeping anti-voter law in decades. The bill mandates:

Strict voter ID to cast a ballot
NO student IDs
NO public employee IDs
Don’t Even Think About Using a Library Card!
No Freaken IDs, Period!

And it doesn’t matter if 318,000 registered voters don’t meet the narrow forms of acceptable ID. They’re Screwed!

There have been NO recorded prosecutions of voter impersonation in the past decade. BUT, IT MIGHT HAPPEN and we want to be prepared...just in case.

The bill cuts the number of early voting days by a week, even though 56 percent of North Carolinians voted early in 2012.

56% of North Carolinians vote early? Really?

Well, we certainly didn’t mean to discourage voters by cutting early voting days by a week, now did we?

The bill eliminates same-day voter registration during the early voting period, even though 96,000 people used it during the general election in 2012 and states that have adopted the convenient reform have the highest voter turnout in the country.

African-Americans are 23 percent of registered voters in the state, but made up 28 percent of early voters in 2012, 33 percent of those who used same-day registration and 34 percent of those without state-issued ID.

There, that should do it!

And that’s just the start of it. In short, the bill eliminates practically everything that encourages people to vote in North Carolina, replaced by unnecessary and burdensome new restrictions.

Why, I do believe y’all are attempting to suppress the vote.

Quick! Get me my smelling salts...I feel the vapors coming on!

At the same time, the bill expands the influence of unregulated corporate influence in state elections.

Just what our democracy needs—more money and less voting!

“I want you to understand what this bill means to people,” said Representative Mickey Michaux (D-Durham), the longest-serving member of the North Carolina House and a veteran of the civil rights movement who grew up in the Jim Crow South.

“We have fought for, died for and struggled for our right to vote. You can take these 57 pages of abomination and confine them to the streets of Hell for all eternity.”

Good-by, Democracy...It was wonderful while it lasted.

Ever hear the expression Willful Ignorance? Read this bio of President Obama’s father, who really was Kenyan. Apparently, this little factoid got Republicans all mixed up, bless their hearts. Go figure.

Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (June 1936--November 1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of U.S. President Barack Obama. 

He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995).

Obama married in 1954 and had two children with his first wife. He was selected for a special program to attend college in the United States, where he went to the University of Hawaii.

There, in 1960, he met Stanley Ann Dunham, a native of Kansas.

They married in 1961 and divorced three years later, after having a son, Barack Hussein Obama, named after him.

The elder Obama later went to Harvard University for graduate school, earning an M.A. in economics, and returned to Kenya in 1964.*

*This is probably where Republicans got confused. See, he , the President had the same name as his Dad, but he is a JUNIOR!

Later that year, Obama married Ruth Beatrice Baker, a Jewish-American woman with whom he had developed a relationship in Massachusetts.

They had two sons together before separating in 1971 and divorcing in 1973. Obama first worked for an oil company, before beginning work as an economist with the Kenyan Ministry of Transport.

He gained a promotion to senior economic analyst in the Ministry of Finance.

Among a cadre of young Kenyan men educated in the West in a program supported by Tom Mboya, Obama had conflicts with Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, which adversely affected his career.

He was fired and blacklisted in Kenya, finding it nearly impossible to get a job.

Drinking heavily, Obama suffered three serious car accidents, the last of which claimed his life in 1982.

I hope this ends the confusion, once and for all.