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dviss1 said:
When it comes to hating gays, attempting to take away Black people's ability to vote with poll taxes, hammering on all Latinos as illegals, yeah that shit is pretty damn evil.
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So if one black person says "Kill all white people", I can say blacks are evil?

I know Denny and I support gay rights, we don't believe immigrants are illegal or want to take away Black people's right to vote.
 
Hobbesarable said:
Here's a link to an interesting article about the Anatomy of Detroit's Decline.
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I don't know wtf @dviss1 is talking about! LOL

http://www.toledoblade.com/news/2013/07/28/Detroit-mayors-all-Democrats-since-1962.html

Detroit mayors all Democrats since 1962
BY TOM TROY
BLADE POLITICS WRITER
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The former city council president was defeated overwhelmingly in 1961 by a charismatic, John Kennedy-like Democrat, Jerome Cavanagh — the first of a string of Democratic mayors.

It could be argued that 1961 was the election in which Detroit started on the path that led to its economic collapse 52 years later.

Mr. Miriani was elected to city council in 1947 and, as council president, automatically became mayor after Mayor Albert Cobo’s death in 1957. He was elected in 1958. Under Mayor Miriani, a convention hall — later named after Mayor Cobo — and other parts of the Civic Center were completed and the city’s freeways, water system, and port were expanded.

Mr. Miriani was convicted in 1969 of evading federal income taxes, failing to pay taxes on $261,000 in income. He served 294 days in prison in 1970 and 1971 and died in 1987 at the age of 90 in Pontiac, Mich.

After leaving office in January, 1962, Mr. Miriani went to work as executive vice president of the Aronsson Printing Co., of Detroit. In 1965, he was re-elected to Detroit City Council but left after his conviction.

Jack Casey, a Toledo native and former Toledo Times reporter who covered Detroit politics for the Detroit Free Press from 1956 to 1962, said Mr. Miriani was not an effective mayor, but that he had a lot of institutional support, including from the United Auto Workers.

“He was a do-nothing mayor. He didn’t do anything to solve any problems. He created problems,” Mr. Casey said. He said he was aware that Mr. Miriani was a Republican, but that “he did not run as a Republican.”

“He ran as a reactionary person. He liked people with money,” said Mr. Casey, who went on to work for Mayor Cavanagh and then to careers in radio, television, and public relations in Detroit.

The Detroit Free Press wrote in Mr. Miriani’s obituary, “Miriani confronted a series of urban problems that plagued subsequent mayors: rising unemployment and demands for public services, racial tensions, falling tax revenue, and the flight of industry and white residents to the suburbs and other states.”

The article — co-written by then-Free Press City Hall bureau chief David Kushma, now The Blade’s editor — reported that Mr. Miriani was alternately irascible and ingratiating, considerate to supporters and often impatient and insulting to critics. He said he served no special interests, “only the public interest.”

In 1957 he refused to welcome delegates to an Islamic convention because some speakers were “anti-American,” according to the Free Press. And in 1959 he refused to attend a welcome for a top Soviet official in Detroit as “not in the public interest.”

Mr. Miriani pleaded unsuccessfully for more state and federal aid for Detroit, and tried to deal with Detroit’s economic problems by cuts in city spending and services. He rejected demands that the city enact an income tax on residents and suburban commuters who worked in Detroit. Later, the city did institute an income tax.

Mr. Miriani presided over a crackdown on crime that outraged black leaders and mobilized black voters to support Mr. Cavanagh.

The Free Press said, “Black ministers and residents held the mayor responsible and vowed to defeat him. They, along with blue-collar and jobless voters and city employees opposed to Miriani’s tight-fisted spending policies, backed challenger Jerome Cavanagh, an obscure 33-year-old lawyer and political novice.”

Detroit — like Toledo — has nonpartisan municipal elections, and observers say political party is rarely invoked publicly, especially by Republicans. Mr. Miriani identified as a Republican early in his career but was strictly nonpartisan by the time he became mayor.

Bill Ballenger, a former state lawmaker who publishes Inside Michigan Politics newsletter, said Mr. Cobo was the last definite Republican mayor. His party affiliation can be stated with confidence because he was the Republican candidate for governor of Michigan in 1956, losing to incumbent Democrat G. Mennen Williams.

“There never was much [Republican Party in Detroit] even in the ’50s and ’60s. There were some councilmen who got elected, closet Republicans, but they’re pretty much all gone today,” Mr. Ballenger said.

Preceding Mr. Miriani was a series of Republican mayors starting in 1933 with Frank Couzens, John W. Smith, Richard Reading, and Edward Jeffries, ending in 1948. Democrat Eugene Van Antwerp was mayor from 1948 to 1950.

Mr. Van Antwerp was followed by Mr. Cobo, a business executive who was “loaned” to the city to help it through a financial crisis. He served seven consecutive terms as treasurer, 1935 to 1949.

Mr. Cobo won two two-year terms and then a four-year term, dying near the end of his third term. Mr. Cobo had decided not to run again in 1957, and Mr. Miriani was already running in the 1957 elections, having easily led the primary contest the week before Mr. Cobo’s fatal heart attack.

Though Mr. Cavanagh upset Mr. Miriani in 1961 and he was a popular mayor, his second term was marred by riots in 1967.

Republican power waned in Detroit just as the city’s prosperity and population peaked. Roiling beneath the surface was ethnic tension, between the working class whites and blacks who had flocked to the city for its auto factories.

Mr. Falbaum, 74, said Mr. Cavanagh tried to solve problems that previous mayors tried to sweep under the carpet.

“I believe that the seeds for the riot were planted over the years by other mayors — more conservative, less responsive to black complaints. Jerry Cavanagh, who tried to do the right things for blacks — integrated the police department, responding to black concerns — suffered the worst riot in the country at the time. That to me was a great tragedy,” Mr. Falbaum said.

After him came a string of Democratic mayors, including current Mayor Dave Bing.

Conservative writers have cited Detroit as a lesson in one-party rule and Democratic policies.

Columnist Rich Tucker wrote, “One-party government quickly became bad government, featuring a stream of liberal, blue-state policies such as sweet deals for government unions. Now, though, the bill has come due for these liberal policies.”


Read more at http://www.toledoblade.com/news/201...Democrats-since-1962.html#Oj1yuJyHobUa7AF0.99
 
You never know what I'm talking about Mags. You always take what I say and run in some weird direction with it. You keep calling me a Democrat. Why? I only register Dem to vote in the primary which I'm so glad will STAY CLOSED. I'm a LIBERAL. There are lots of Dems who aren't as Liberal as I need them to be. They don't go far enough and have taken money from Banks and their corporate masters just like ALL Republicans. No one was saying anything about how Detroit declined. I simply said it's being ran by Rethugs now. Now back to my topic on Rapepublicans:

Not to mention wanting to govern women's uteri, hammer on poor people by trying to balance the budget buy cutting programs that are in the social safety net, and they don't seem to give a shit about women being raped.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/rapequotes.asp

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Pretty fucking evil.
 
dviss1 said:
You never know what I'm talking about Mags. You always take what I say and run in some weird direction with it. You keep calling me a Democrat. Why? I only register Dem to vote in the primary which I'm so glad will STAY CLOSED. I'm a LIBERAL. There are lots of Dems who aren't as Liberal as I need them to be. They don't go far enough and have taken money from Banks and their corporate masters just like ALL Republicans. No one was saying anything about how Detroit declined. I simply said it's being ran by Rethugs now. Now back to my topic on Rapepublicans:

Not to mention wanting to govern women's uteri, hammer on poor people by trying to balance the budget buy cutting programs that are in the social safety net, and they don't seem to give a shit about women being raped.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/rapequotes.asp

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Pretty fucking evil.
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This is pretty evil too! All liberals are evil as well?

#25 – “Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.” – Mary Frances Berry, former Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights

#24 – “Let me see one of you adopt one of those ugly black babies.” – Abortionist Ashutosh Ron Virmani

#23 – “(I get to) kill all the white people… How great is that?” – Jamie Foxx discussing his Django Unchanged role

#22 – “(Blacks and Hispanics) are too busy eating watermelons and tacos to learn how to read and write.” – Mike Wallace, CBS News

#21 – “Tell Yao Ming, Ching chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.” – Shaquille O’Neil before meeting the Chinese basketball player

#20 – “White people shouldn’t be allowed to vote. It’s for the good of the country and for those who’re bitter for a reason and armed because they’re scared.” – Left-wing journalist Jonathan Valania

#19 – “You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent. I’m not joking” – Joe Biden to a man of Indian descent

#18 – “I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.” – Spike Lee

#17 – “I want to go up to the closest white person and say: ‘You can’t understand this, it’s a black thing’ and then slap him, just for my mental health.” – New York City Councilman, Charles Barron

#16 – “We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops. They ought to go.” – Former DC Mayor Marion Barry who was busted smoking crack with a prostitute

#15 – “The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person…” – Barack Obama

#14 – “(Obama’s) a nice person, he’s very articulate this is what’s been used against him, but he couldn’t sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.” – Dan Rather, CBS Evening News

#13 – “…cook him up with some barbecued dog…cook that yellow chump. I’ll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.” – Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. talking about Philippine opponent Manny Pacqioa

#12 – “I can’t stand black guys. I would never touch one. It’s gross.” – Useless socialite and porn star Paris Hilton from Neil Strauss’s book “Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead”

#11 – “I’d rather be called a N*gger than a Slave.” – Film critic Roger Ebert

#10 – “Sometimes I wish slavery was still goin’ on” and “I don’t need black fans anyway. Y’all don’t buy albums.” – white female rapper Kreayshawn. Followed by the apology: “I am sorry, I LOVE FRIED CHICKEN!”

#9 – “I think one man is just as good as another so long as he’s not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.” – Harry Truman in a letter to his future wife Bess

#8 – “Some junior high n*gger kicked Steve’s ass while he was trying to help his brothers out; junior high or sophomore in high school. Whatever it was, Steve had the n*gger down. However it was, it was Steve’s fault. He had the n*gger down, he let him up. The n*gger blindsided him.” – Roger Clinton, Bill’s hillbilly brother on audiotape

#7 – “A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.” – Bill Clinton to Ted Kennedy

#6 – “You f*cking Jew bastard.” – Hillary Clinton to political operative Paul Fray. And let’s not forget: “I love this quote. It’s from Mahatma Gandhi. He ran a gas station down in St. Louis for a couple of years. Mr. Gandhi, do you still go to the gas station?”

#5 – “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People” – Kanye West on the President’s handling of Hurricane Katrina

#4 – “White folks was in caves while we was building empires… We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.” – Rev. Al Sharpton in a 1994 speech at Kean College, NJ

#3 – “Hymies.” And “Hymietown.” — Jesse Jackson’s description of New York City while on the 1984 presidential campaign trail

#2 – “The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him.” – Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan

#1 – “I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” – Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One according Ronald Kessler’s book, “Inside The White House”
 
http://mediatrackers.org/national/2013/06/20/6-horribly-racist-comments-from-obama-admin-officials

1. “You’re not a member of the Taliban, are you?” – Chuck Hagel, Secretary of Defense

While taking questions at an event at the University of Nebraska on Wednesday, Hagel asked an Indian man if he was a member of the Taliban before the man asked his question. The man, Robin Gandhi, is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska. Video of the exchange can be found here.

2. “I love this quote. It’s from Mahatma Gandhi. He ran a gas station down in St. Louis for a couple of years. Mr. Gandhi, do you still go to the gas station? A lot of wisdom comes out of that gas station” – Hillary Clinton, Former Secretary of State


During a 2006 fundraiser in St. Louis, Clinton joked prior to reading a quote by Mahatma Gandhi that he used to run a gas station in the city. She later apologized for her remarks, saying they were a “lame attempt at humor.”

3. “In about 18 months from now, hopefully [state Sen. Vincent Sheheen] will have sent Nikki Haley back to wherever the hell she came from and this country can move forward.” – Former South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Dick Harpootlian


At a state Democratic party event in May of 2013, Harpootlian attacked the ethnicity of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, whose parents are Indian immigrants. After his comments ignited a fire storm, he claimed that he meant she should go back to Lexington County, S.C., where she used to live. He later claimed that he meant she should go back to being an accountant.

Harpootlian, who resigned just days after his remarks, had previously compared Haley to Adolf Hitler’s mistress. When asked whether he would apologize about the Nazi comments, he said, “Hell no. This is fake. Nikki Haley is feigning this.”

4. “You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking!” – Joe Biden, Vice President


Biden’s remarks to an Indian-American supporter in were captured by C-SPAN at a campaign event on June 17, 2006.

5. “I mean you’ve got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and nice-looking guy.” – Joe Biden, Vice President


During a 2007 interview with New York Observer reporter Jason Horowitz, Biden offered his thoughts on Barack Obama, his opponent at the time for the Democratic nomination for the White House.

6. “[Harry Reid] was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as a Obama — a ‘light-skinned’ African American with ‘no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.'” – Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, as quoted in the book Game Change
 
You're full of shit mags. And yes DJANGO WAS THE SHIT!!!

When he started WHOOPIN' THAT RACIST'S ASS with that bullwhip I stood up and clapped.

Am I racist now?
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Illegals don't vote for democrats or republicans. They can't, they're illegal.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/14/obama-pushes-naturalize-more-immigrants/

In the wake of President Obama’s executive action to shield illegal immigrants from deportation, the White House also launched a campaign Tuesday to encourage more legal immigrants to become U.S. citizens.

White House aides said the “citizenship awareness campaign” will make use of social media and other traditional media to reach the more than 8.8 million legal residents who are eligible to become U.S. citizens but haven’t taken that step.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/undocumented-660740-california-immigrants.html

They live in the country illegally. They pepper their rallies with the chant “undocumented and unafraid.” And they cannot vote.

Still, some politicians have heard their voices.

In California, undocumented immigrants have political clout.

“Today, we remind the rest of the nation that California is different,” said state Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, in an April news conference to promote 10 bills he and others believe will help people in the country illegally.

The proposals ranged from a $1 billion plan to extend state-subsidized health care to the undocumented, to the establishment of a new state office that would make it easier for some immigrant crime victims to avoid deportation.

Perhaps tellingly, the lawmakers discussed their proposals in a mixture of Spanish and English, with some statements presented only in Spanish, without translation.

“This package unequivocally states California’s commitment to immigrants,” said de León, a Democrat from Los Angeles, in an interview.

The proposals come on the heels of several legislative victories for the undocumented in California. Among the most prominent are driver’s licenses for all, limits on state cooperation with federal immigration authorities, and the right to become an attorney in California, regardless of one’s immigration status.

Next year, people living here illegally will be able to apply for dozens of other professional or vocational licenses, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists and real estate agents.

De León skirted a question on whether undocumented immigrants now have political power in California.

“You have a sizable number of legislators that are keenly aware that for the continued economic growth of California, we need to normalize the legal status of this population,” he said.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...reates-loophole-for-illegal-immigra/?page=all

President Obama’s temporary deportation amnesty will make it easier for illegal immigrants to improperly register and vote in elections, state elections officials testified to Congress on Thursday, saying that the driver’s licenses and Social Security numbers they will be granted create a major voting loophole.

While stressing that it remains illegal for noncitizens to vote, secretaries of state from Ohio and Kansas said they won’t have the tools to sniff out illegal immigrants who register anyway, ignoring stiff penalties to fill out the registration forms that are easily available at shopping malls, motor vehicle bureaus and in curbside registration drives.
 
And Kanye was right. Bush doesn't care about Black People.
 
magnifier661 said:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/14/obama-pushes-naturalize-more-immigrants/

In the wake of President Obama’s executive action to shield illegal immigrants from deportation, the White House also launched a campaign Tuesday to encourage more legal immigrants to become U.S. citizens.

White House aides said the “citizenship awareness campaign” will make use of social media and other traditional media to reach the more than 8.8 million legal residents who are eligible to become U.S. citizens but haven’t taken that step.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/undocumented-660740-california-immigrants.html

They live in the country illegally. They pepper their rallies with the chant “undocumented and unafraid.” And they cannot vote.

Still, some politicians have heard their voices.

In California, undocumented immigrants have political clout.

“Today, we remind the rest of the nation that California is different,” said state Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, in an April news conference to promote 10 bills he and others believe will help people in the country illegally.

The proposals ranged from a $1 billion plan to extend state-subsidized health care to the undocumented, to the establishment of a new state office that would make it easier for some immigrant crime victims to avoid deportation.

Perhaps tellingly, the lawmakers discussed their proposals in a mixture of Spanish and English, with some statements presented only in Spanish, without translation.

“This package unequivocally states California’s commitment to immigrants,” said de León, a Democrat from Los Angeles, in an interview.

The proposals come on the heels of several legislative victories for the undocumented in California. Among the most prominent are driver’s licenses for all, limits on state cooperation with federal immigration authorities, and the right to become an attorney in California, regardless of one’s immigration status.

Next year, people living here illegally will be able to apply for dozens of other professional or vocational licenses, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists and real estate agents.

De León skirted a question on whether undocumented immigrants now have political power in California.

“You have a sizable number of legislators that are keenly aware that for the continued economic growth of California, we need to normalize the legal status of this population,” he said.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...reates-loophole-for-illegal-immigra/?page=all

President Obama’s temporary deportation amnesty will make it easier for illegal immigrants to improperly register and vote in elections, state elections officials testified to Congress on Thursday, saying that the driver’s licenses and Social Security numbers they will be granted create a major voting loophole.

While stressing that it remains illegal for noncitizens to vote, secretaries of state from Ohio and Kansas said they won’t have the tools to sniff out illegal immigrants who register anyway, ignoring stiff penalties to fill out the registration forms that are easily available at shopping malls, motor vehicle bureaus and in curbside registration drives.
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So people who won't fill out paperwork to come to this country legally get here and suddenly have this urge to forge paperwork to vote?
 
SlyPokerDog said:
So people who won't fill out paperwork to come to this country legally get here and suddenly have this urge to forge paperwork to vote?
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Yes, especially when you can vote for legislation that will break the law for you to stay there.
 
magnifier661 said:
Washington times is a liberal paper! LOL this is fresh... Liberals bashing on the liberal press.
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No it's not!! foolish post:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times

The Times circulation has always been much less than that of the Washington Post. In 1992 the New York Times reported theTimes had only one eighth the circulation of the Post (100,000 to 800,000) and that two thirds of its subscribers also subscribed to the Post.[13] In 1994 the Times introduced a weekly national edition, especially targeted to conservative readers nationwide.[14]
 
An election-watch group is suing Maryland over the alleged presence of noncitizens on the state’s voting rolls.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, asserts that individuals who opted out of jury duty because they were not legal U.S. residents have cast ballots in at least three Maryland elections.

Based on the number of potential unqualified voters identified in Frederick County, up to 7 percent of Maryland’s registered voters could be illegal immigrants, according to estimates.

“Their continued appearance on these lists makes it nearly impossible for Maryland law to prevent these declared noncitizens from casting votes in elections and significantly affecting the integrity and outcomes of overall electoral processes,” said Reagan George, president of the Virginia Voters Alliance, which brought the lawsuit on behalf of four Frederick County residents: John Miller, Virginia Grant, Kathy Troxell and Robert Bogley.

The plaintiffs are suing the Frederick County Board of Elections and the Maryland State Board of Elections.

Miller, the lead plaintiff in the case, told Watchdog.org, “How could this happen in America? Whoever is responsible should be prosecuted.”
 
magnifier661 said:
Yes, especially when you can vote for legislation that will break the law for you to stay there.
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Mags you're full of shit again. How does an illegal immigrant get registered to vote. Do tell...
 
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...012-presidential-election-in-key-swing-state/

Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted announced Wednesday that his office found 17 non-citizens illegally cast ballots in the 2012 presidential election -- and has referred the case for possible prosecution.

The alleged crime would be a notable case of voter fraud in a key swing state. By law, only American citizens are allowed the privilege of casting ballots for the nation's leaders.

Ohio officials say that did not stop some from getting around the system.

"I have a responsibility to uphold election law, and under both federal and state law you must be a citizen to vote," said Husted, a Republican who has aggressively tried to investigate voter fraud cases in his state.

Husted also found that 274 non-citizens remain on the voting rolls.

President Obama beat Mitt Romney in Ohio by just 2 percentage points in November 2012.


As part of Ohio's efforts to clean up the voting rolls, election officials discovered that more than 257,000 dead people were still listed as active voters. Their names and status, Husted said, have since been removed.

In addition, election authorities note they have drastically reduced the number of duplicate registrations, from 340,000 in 2011 to just four this past November -- and that more than 370,000 Ohio voters who have moved have been contacted to update their voting information.

"Now that we have the ability to cross-check citizenship information with Ohio's voter rolls, I will continue to be vigilant and to push the General Assembly for additional tools to modernize our elections systems, making it easy to vote and hard to cheat," Husted said.

Voting advocates have long complained that some of the country's voter fraud investigations amount to voter suppression, aimed at preventing minorities and others from voting. But supporters say the efforts only are aimed at preventing voter fraud and maintaining the integrity of the electoral process.

The new investigation comes after election officials secured several voter fraud convictions stemming from last year's election in Ohio, including that of one poll worker who was accused of voting six times in the November presidential election.

Melowese Richardson, 58, is serving five years in prison after being convicted of four counts of voter fraud. Prosecutors said she repeatedly had voted in the name of her sister, who has been in a coma since 2003, and that the illegal votes Richardson cast were counted in both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. She also was accused of illegally voting in November's election in the names of other people, including her granddaughter India Richardson, who told Fox News that "it wasn't a big deal."
 
More proof Washington times is a conservative paper:

http://www.conservapedia.com/Washington_Times


The Washington Times is a conservative dailynewspaper in Washington, D.C. which strives to counterbalance the liberal slant of the Washington Post. The paper was founded in 1982 by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church out of appreciation for, in his words,

“ because American-led U.N. forces, in the process of saving my country during the Korean War, liberated me from a communist concentration camp where I had been imprisoned [1] ”
Max Blumenthal wrote, "The Times has served as a major key on the conservative movement's Mighty Wurlitzer." [2]

Newt Gingrich said,

"The arrival of The Washington Times was for conservatives both a breath of fresh air and a daring challenge to the media establishment. From day one, conservatives on Capitol Hill and throughout the city looked to The Washington Times for lively, aggressive reporting and bold conservative editorial commentary." [3]
The Washingtonian wrote:

The Washington Times has served as a reliable voice for conservative views. Its coverage of the White House blossomed during the Reagan administration, when it became a champion for conservative causes and points of view. The newspaper’s circulation has hovered around 100,000, far below that of the dominant Washington Post, which has a daily circulation of just under 700,000. The Times has never been a commercial success.

President Ronald Reagan was quoted saying:

"The American people know the truth. You, my friends at The Washington Times, have told it to them. It wasn't always the popular thing to do. But you were a loud and powerful voice."[4]
 
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It's interesting to watch Mags dance from one talking point to another, as if they're all connected AND that what he posts links to/references actually back up what he's saying.

It's like watching PapaG in his prime.
 
http://cis.org/non-citizen-voters-diluting-the-rights-and-privileges-of-citizenship

Here are the key findings:

  • Throughout American history, in keeping with established principles of national sovereignty, a bright line has been established by the Constitution between citizens and aliens with respect to the rights and privileges accorded to each, including the right to vote, a privilege reserved solely for citizens. The Constitution also apportions to the states the right to establish laws governing the electoral process for members of both houses of Congress. Yet some states have encountered resistance in attempting to verify the status of potentially ineligible non-citizen voters they have discovered on their registration lists.
  • In Colorado, 11,805 discrepancies were discovered between individuals who presented proof of alienage when applying for driver's licenses, but who later registered to vote. Of these, many were resident aliens who may or may not have naturalized before registering to vote. But a significant number of other individuals who registered to vote were not even resident aliens and thus could not by law have naturalized. Colorado's request for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) SAVE database information to positively identify individuals' immigration or naturalization status was refused.
  • In Florida, state officials developed a preliminary list of about 180,000, later refined to 2,700 apparent discrepancies, which was sent to local electoral officials for further review and inquiry. It also was refused assistance from DHS. When the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) threatened suit, many counties declined to take action on the questioned names; but some counties pressed forward, resulting in identification of nearly 100 noncitizens according to media reports. DOJ's lawsuit was dismissed in a federal district court, prompting DHS to agree to provide access to SAVE records. Despite the dismissal, DOJ has issued subpoenas for the records of those counties that were not deterred by the legal action.
  • The federal government's denial of access to SAVE for vetting voter lists appears to have been in contravention of Title 8, Section 1373 of the United States Code, which unambiguously requires immigration authorities to respond to queries from other federal, state, or local officials seeking information relating to an individual's citizenship or immigration status.
  • Polling data has found strong public support for Florida's efforts to vet voter registration lists, despite the frequently negative tenor of media coverage, for example by referring to them as "purges". A June Quinnipiac University poll found that three-fifths of Floridians approved of state officials' investigations.
  • Efforts to uncover voter fraud involving aliens are not a new phenomenon, but date back to the 1990s. A June 2005 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) identified the possibly significant scope of the problem, finding that up to 3 percent of individuals called for federal jury duty from voter registration lists in one district were not U.S. citizens.
  • Federal law very specifically prohibits and criminalizes false claims to U.S. citizenship and voting by ineligible aliens. Congressional intent to see aliens prosecuted for voter fraud was reiterated as recently as the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
  • Yet no U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO) appears to have initiated any effort to prosecute aliens for voting. Nor has the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initiated the deportation of aliens who have registered or voted illegally, which it can do independently of a prosecution by the USAO or state prosecutors.
  • The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) provided a basis for each state to develop and maintain a statewide voter registration list, with grant monies and a set of standards to support this effort. Little progress seems to have been made, however.
 
If liberals and democrats gerrymander, why is it that Austin Texas is run by and controlled by conservative republicans?

I'll give you a hint, it rights with Carry Sandering.
 
Mags... Just stop... Stop posting right wing websites to "prove" your point. You're floundering now...
 
dviss1 said:
Soooo, they were caught... Which means they weren't able to vote.... Jesus... you don't seem to get it..
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  • In Colorado, 11,805 discrepancies were discovered between individuals who presented proof of alienage when applying for driver's licenses, but who later registered to vote. Of these, many were resident aliens who may or may not have naturalized before registering to vote. But a significant number of other individuals who registered to vote were not even resident aliens and thus could not by law have naturalized. Colorado's request for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) SAVE database information to positively identify individuals' immigration or naturalization status was refused.
 
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