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Posted on 11/20/2004 7:17:36 AM PST by ClintonBeGone
Washington — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is fighting a proposal being pushed by Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond that would discourage get-out-the-vote efforts in public housing projects. Bond and the proposal's main backer, GOP Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, said it seeks to prevent a repeat of an incident at a public housing project in California in 2002. In that incident, an AFL-CIO affiliate that used a $50,000 HUD grant to conduct get-out-the-vote efforts in public housing projects in San Francisco reportedly targeted only likely Democrats.
Bond said Congress has provided $3 billion under the Help America Vote Act to make it easier for all Americans to vote.
"Housing funds should be used to meet housing needs, not partisan politics," he said.
Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP's Washington bureau, predicted the restriction would affect 3 million Americans who live in public housing. He said about 46 percent of those people are black. Shelton called the provision "outrageous."
The proposal would bar public housing projects from using federal funds for any election activities, including voter registration, voter identification and get-out-the-vote activities.
Shelton said the NAACP agrees federal funds should not be spent on campaigning for or against a particular candidate or party. But he said public housing authorities should continue to help their residents with transportation to the polls and with voter registration. Almost a third of public housing residents are elderly and need help exercising their right to vote, Shelton said.
The GOP needs to pass some serious voter fraud laws this term if we want to maintain our majority status in the future. As millions and millions of illegals continue to flood the country every year, it is just a matter of time until they overtake us unless we get serious about vote fraud.
that's what the democrats and their unions do.
in a local election recently i met a ph.d. student from out of state who had a u.s. government grant to work for a democrat to unseat a republican, which happened.
No kiddin !
While we should, we don't even have to do major voting reform. Even simple things like this will go a long way towards not only protecting our majority, but seeing that the institution of elections is preserved.
This is a good start.
I think the average american would be amazed at the level to which the other site cheats. It's like having a college exam every 4 years where half the class shows up with all forms of cheat sheets and no respect for the process.
The Republicans learned in recent years, that you don't HAVE to pay people to register voters.
Incite and invigorate peoples passion and sensibility, and the word and efforts spread on their own.
One part of me thinks that I am a much more worthy cause, when it comes to federal grants, than a lot of people. However, self respect keeps me from trying to get some of that money.
And then, they actually accuse the other side of cheating and call for them to be investigated and try to have their grades "overturned".
Outrageous!
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Why should my tax dollars be used to get these people to vote for Rats.
Lesko may be a nut. But something tells me he's a rich nut.
He'd have to be to afford those fancy clothes. :)
Seriously, I'm sure he is and all he's done is compile a bunch of public documents. What a wonderful country.
Republicans need a serious backbone transplant. At the very least, they should require all people to provide a photo ID before voting. Democrats, of course, oppose this, claiming such a requirement would "intimidate" minorities. If Republicans want to allow Democrats to continue to stuff the ballot boxes, then, by all means, they should not fight for a photo ID requirement.
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