If My Vote Doesn't Matter...

One of the things I get sick of hearing from people who want a third party or others who are looking for any excuse not to vote in every election is that tired 'you vote doesn't count' mantra.

Okay, let's ponder that for a few moments.

If my vote doesn't matter, why are ALEC, the Tea Klux Klan, the Republican Party and 30 GOP controlled legislatures trying to pass laws to suppress it for non-white American citizens, seniors and young voters?

And why are conservafool attorneys, GOP attorney generals like Greg Abbott in my home state, and GOP secretaries of state trying to defend that unconstitutional and racist law?

I'll let y'all marinate on that one while I'm traveling to Washington DC to Own My Power and we'll chit chat about that later.

Hell No To Proposed 'Stand Your Ground' Polling Place Law

Every time I presume that conservafool fetishes with guns can't get any crazier, I see another jaw dropping article that convinces me conservative identified white people have gone fracking crazy since President Obama was elected in 2008.

The Republican 2012 platform already ratcheted up their fetishistic gun love another level by expressing support for Stand Your Ground Shoot an Unarmed non-white person gun laws and unlimited clips.  

Now if two Florida Republican sympathizers named Robert Stevens and John Nelson have their way, they want to have the ability to take the 'Stand Your Ground principle to a polling place near you.

They want the state of Florida to pass a “Protect the Polls" law under which “anyone suspected of committing voter fraud can be fired upon – provided the weapon is registered and operated by its licensed owner.”

Not no, but OH HELL NO.   And you want to know why I and other African-Americans have a severe distaste for Republicans and the conservative movement in general besides their racism that's on daily display.

I know you conservative white people are deathly 'scurred' of determined large numbers of non-white progressive voters using the ballot box to elect politicians with mandates to overturn your jacked up, mean spirited and unconstitutional policies and have been using every underhanded method to keep that from happening, but this is insane.  

It's also one more reason we non-white folks and our allies need to be ensuring right now we are registered to vote and on November 6 (or as soon as early voting commences) voting for every person at every level of government with a 'D' behind their name.

It's past time to throw the conservabums out, and make sure we exercise and strengthen our right to vote so that we can keep them out of power for the next 40 years.

It's time to end the conservamadness.  Because if we don't work to non-violently protect the polls and our democracy from fools like this and stupid ideas like this, there are monumentally stupid conservative legislators who may actually think this a good idea and file the bill to actually make this steaming pile of crap law.  

 

Attorney General Holder's NAACP Speech

US Attorney General Eric Holder came to Houston to speak at the 103rd NAACP convention and had a message for the conservafools trying desperately to suppress the vote in advance of the 2012 presidential election.

He isn't backing off from trying to repeal  your Voter ID suppression laws.    He contends (and I concur with his assessment) that they are poll taxes specifically banned under the 24th Amendment. .

For you conservailliterate sheeple, here's the text of the 24th Amendment since y'all only read the 2nd and 10th and ignore the 25 other amendments that make up our Constitution. .

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Texas Voter Suppression Law Trial Starts Today

Texas' voter ID suppression law will go on trial starting today in front a a three judge panel in Washington DC.  

It pits our Republifool attorney general Greg Abbott making another bogus 'states rights' argument against the Department of Justice and a phalanx of groups seeking to enforce Section V of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Since my birth state has an odious history of suppressing the voting rights of non-white people, they find themselves under Section V of the Voting Rights Act.  

Section V requires any changes in election law or that affect voting procedures to be precleared by the DOJ and it was under that provision of the VRA that the Texas Voter ID suppression law was blocked by the DOJ from implementation in March.  

That prompted Abbott to file a suit attempting to convince a three judge panel to uphold this jacked up law.  The sniping you heard Sen John Cornyn (R-TX) direct at Attorney General Eric Holder and demand he resign during that Senate hearing a few weeks ago was in relation to this Texas voter suppression case.

The three judge panel that will hear this case for this projected five day trial is made up of  GW Bush appointee (2002) Rosemary Collyer, Clinton appointee (1994) David Tatel and Obama appointee (2010) Robert Wilkins. 

Collyer was also one of the judges comprising the three judge panel that threw out the partisan GOP Texas congressional redistricting maps a few months ago after a three week trial 

Abbot will argue the GOP party line that this law is only designed to address 'voter fraud', but we non-white Texans know these ALEC sponsored laws are designed to do noting else but suppress non-white voter turnout. 

"The state's argument has this notion of widespread fraud, when what we know from the evidence is that so far, for 2008 and 2010, there were 13 million votes cast across the state and of those 13 million, there's been one indictment for voter fraud," said Texas state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, the chairman of the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, one of the groups joining the Justice Department.

May this law go down in a painful death later this week.