Conyers Calls Out McCain Over Voter Suppression

The Hill ^ | 9/19/08 | Andy Barr

[steve-b]

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) told John McCain's campaign Friday to take control over its supporters following reports that a Republican county chairman in Michigan planned to use lists of recently foreclosed residents to block them from voting

"It is beyond disgraceful that the Republican Party now seems to be targeting those who are suffering the most," Conyers said. "It appears that individuals who can't recall how many houses they own don't understand how awful it is to lose your home to foreclosure, and don't know that you don't need to own property to vote in the United States of America."

"It should surprise no one that the people who gave us the worst economy since the Great Depression would now want to prevent those victimized by this economy from voting in the coming elections. Senator McCain needs to step forward now and halt the Republican Party's efforts to profit politically from the economic misery of others."

In a letter sent to the McCain, Conyers asked the Arizona senator to "repudiate any efforts of the Republican Party and any of its state affiliates to engage in voter suppression and intimidation tactics."

[Larry Lucido]

If you lose your house...your not living there anymore.

Michigan has a six month redemption period so, actually, you do still live there anymore.

[tommyboy]

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080705/METRO/807050357

[Domangart]

I saw this old goat attempting to read this statement to Muller this morning. It was all he could do just to read it. All I could think of was what a crook.

[xcamel]

Read the rest of the posts... you’ll figure it out...

[Larry Lucido]

That said, Conyers is still a commie a-hole.

[detective]

Voter fraud by Democrats in Michigan in general and Detroit in particular has been at epidemic proportions for a long time. Many of the houses in Detroit are abandoned and are used as crack houses. The population of Detroit has declined dramatically over the last several years. Yet the votes (about 95% Democrat) are so high as to be obviously fraudulent. Elections in Detroit are like elections in the former Soviet Union. Both are corrupt one-party states where the controlling party gets almost 100% of the vote.

[Mark was here]

No one would be denied the right to vote, the plan is to merely ask is this where you live? What is wrong with asking folks if their info is accurate?

[FredZarguna]

any electoral vote challenge in a split situation would go back to the Governor

If you're talking about the MI House and Senate designating the recipient of electoral votes for MI, only they can do it. Under Article II of the US Constitution the Governor has no authority over Presidential electors whatsoever.

[Gaffer]

Conyers - ‘Community Organizer’

[politicalwit]

I thought I read somewhere that the subject was simply a rumor and that the rumor was started by someone in the Hussein campaign.

[Doctor Raoul]

A flaming commie a-hole...fur shur.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Maybe Rangel could explain to Conyers how things “just happen”.

[Perdogg]

If there is a dispute of the Electoral College that is Split between the US House and the US Senate, the decision would revert to the Governor of the State (Bush V Gore).

[peeps36]

I don't know where Conyers hangs around but I don't see any bread lines in my neck of the woods. This economy isn't even as bad as the Carter years. Conyers must be as dumb as he looks.

[ETL]

FYI: The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr of Michigan, is an endorser of the Revolutionary Communist Party call to "Drive Out the Bush Regime".

Click on the WCW link just below and see: "Endorsers of the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include". Conyers' endorsement appears right after Ward Churchill's. Al Sharpton's, Maxine Waters and Jesse Jackson Jr's endorsements are also on the list:
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2

And on Oct 5, 2006, the demonRat chair of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr, gave a speech to the World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime organization. Here's full-page coverage of it from the WCW website:
http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3114&Itemid=243

Fact: World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a Maoist-revolutionary movement organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party! (scroll down the list that appears (after clicking link) to find the World Can't Wait organization --rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party):
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm

From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: World Can't Wait (WCW)

*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration

*Organizes college and high-school students

*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213

[ETL]

Here is a revised link to John Conyers' speech to the Revolutionary Communist Party front group World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime. The original is apparently no longer accessible.
http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3801&Itemid=69

[FredZarguna]

What ??? Show me where you see that in Bush v. Gore.

[Perdogg]

I am sorry I brought this up, never mind, just forget it.

[jbarkley]

Hey Conyers, remember when you vicitmized “those hurting the most” by taking turkeys meant for the poor and passing them out to your cronies?

[FredZarguna]

No, no. It's a legitimate issue, and it could happen. But if the Governor were involved (and that might have been the prescribed procedure in Florida prior to the Florida SC getting involved) that would have to be laid out by the MI legislature as their means for selecting electors under some circumstance prior to the EC vote.

Once the EC vote's held, if there's no majority, the US House votes on the President, with one vote for each state. I actually believe Republicans would not need to retake the House in order to win that vote -- they would just need to control a majority of State delegations in the House (which, I believe because of small States, they would.) The US Senate would pick the VP, and that would definitely be Biden.