Seniors chop up AARP cards in Voter ID protest

Star Tribune (MN) ^ | May 23, 2012 | Jennifer Brooks

[QT3.14]

Conservative groups are calling on Minnesota seniors to boycott the American Association of Retired Persons over the group’s opposition to the photo identification measure on the November ballot.

To drive their point home, seniors gathered at a Wednesday press conference snipped AARP cards into shreds. They say there are conservative-affiliated groups that can give them the same senior discounts and that share their conviction that requiring a photo ID to vote will reduce voter fraud.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

So why is AARP supporting this? Are they saying seniors are too feeble or too senile to get an ID?

[QT3.14]

I chop up and mail back their material in their postage paid envelope.

It's also fun to mail to them another source's junk mail and give them a taste of 'junk' and at their expense.

[ladyjane]

What’s with all these CEOs who look like Colin Powell?

[PapaBear3625]

So why is AARP supporting this? Are they saying seniors are too feeble or too senile to get an ID?

I'm going to suspect that we will find that a bunch of seniors have been getting "voted for" at their old addresses when they went into nursing homes.

[Mr. K]

AARP is no longer working for its original purposes

It is a liberal lobby machine now- 100% deidcated to getting out the senior vote for liberal causes

It should change its name to AARL (retired LIBERALS)

[pepsionice]

The idea that AARP is solely the best and lowest deal around....is completely bogus. There are various better deals. What they get...is lots of hyped advertising over the past twenty years. If they had stayed with just insurance and old folks issues...and not got all political with either party, then I wouldn’t care. But over the past decade....they showed an intense interest to become political in nature.

[Clara Lou]

Thanks— I know that one. =)

[HangThemHigh]

"The envelopes are big.
You can add the day’s rubbish, used Kleenex, whatever."

Tape the postage paid envelope to the outside of a package. Good way to get rid of garbage or construction debris.

[SandwicheGuy]

Appreciate the references. I just checked the "American Seniors Association" site and was told I needed to install a new plug-in to view all the content. No thanks.

Some Seniors are stuck in the past and have decided they will not change with the times. They miss out on some good times because of this. The site is benign, I went they just to see, it works fine, which means they you have not updated your computer probably forever. You are probably deathly afraid of downloading a virus's, no doubt, because you don't do your updates because you probably heard you get them through downloads. Get friendly with a neighborhood kid, they will set you straight, the you can browse sites safely.

[ken in texas]

LOL. Who do you think fixes the machines for the neighborhood kids when they screw it up? Me. I just don’t like sites that make me install additional software to see the content.

Get over yourself.

[nutmeg]

bookmark

[Larry381]

Meet the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AARP, A Barry Rand.

He has served as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of Howard University since 2006 and has also served on the boards of the Urban Family Institute, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the Garth Fagan Dance Theatre. He established the Helen Matthews Rand Endowed Scholarship, a $1.5 million program at the Howard University School of Education named in honor of his late mother, a Washington, D.C., public school principal, to encourage students to enter teaching careers in urban school areas. Mr. Rand continues to serve on a number of boards and advisory committees. He holds a B.A. from American University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University, where he was also a Sloan Executive Fellow. He has received honorary doctorate degrees from six universities. He was inducted into the National Sales Hall of Fame (winning the Thomas J. Watson Award) and is a recipient of the esteemed NAACP Image Award. He and his wife, Donna, have two adult children

Missing from his official bio is the fact that he was a supporter, bundler and donated money to one Hussein Obama before he was placed into this great job

[SandwicheGuy]

Me. I just don’t like sites that make me install additional software to see the content

That was the point. You may not be an old fuddy-duddy but it is difficult to tell from your statement. May I politely inquire what software the site wanted you to install? Some obnoxious sites do require you to DL their proprietary player of viewer but I don't have any of them installed. So from what I do have installed, and did not get an error message, I would guess that this site wanted Adobe Flash, it that right? Again, that is needed by a great number of web sites and will be until HTML5 takes over later on. What is your objection to Adobe Flash, may I ask? And no offence intended, my apologies.

[QT3.14]

If he was a conservative with those credentials would he be accused by the Left as ‘acting black’ or something along those lines?

[ken in texas]

My objection to Flash is that new vulnerabilities seem to show up on a weekly basis, if not more frequently. If it wasn't for Flash, scans with Secunia PSI would always show my installed software up to date.

Agree re. HTML5, assuming it gets finalized and implemented consistently. I'll probably install Flash again when it's for a site where I need it.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks QT3.14.

[TheOldLady]

LOL! Me too, on both counts.