STOP JAMES BAKER, III FROM DOING IT AGAIN

[brettdale]

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001844.htm

STOP JAMES BAKER, III FROM DOING IT AGAIN

I have spent my more than 40 years in public service fighting for voting rights and a better democracy. Today, I am sad to say, there are proposals being made that would set us back in that struggle. A privately funded, unaccountable Commission organized by former Bush-Cheney campaign lawyer James Baker, III, and former President Jimmy Carter issued a report today that includes policy proposals that will disenfranchise over ten percent of eligible voters – a national ID requirement to vote. I need your help to fight this 21st Century poll tax today.

The simple fact is that many minority and poor voters do not have the time, money or need to purchase a drivers license. In fact, over ten percent of eligible voters in the last election did not have a photo ID. They vote by presenting other means of identification (a voter registration card, utility bill, or affidavit). This Commission is now asking Congress to deny the franchise to those voters unless they get a national ID card. The Commission makes the implausible claim that, in these times of a multibillion dollar war in Iraq and multibillion dollar restoration of the Gulf Coast, the Congress will pay for ID cards for those who cannot afford to buy them. We know this is not going to happen.

[davidwparker]

1. poll tax, high-tech style

in Canada, they just manually count the votes

[Peggy Day]

2. what do you think of the voting machine changes?

[Zinfandel]

3. While using a respected Carter, to ensure the what, the same old, same old

Republican owned electronic voting machines as a legitimate voting source.

Why would President Carter accept this?

Baker, an evil, wicked, BushCo (Carlyle Group)...A job that needs to be kept and the status quo intact.

[Pachamama]

6. I've often wondered how "they" get people like Carter etc. to agree to

things and to "lobby" for them or give "legitimacy" to things through some kind of endorsement (ie. if Carter is part of this and says its okay, then it must be....I mean, gee, if Jimmy Carter who knows all about elections and ensuring they are legitimate says this is good, then it must be....I mean, hey, Pres. Carter, Nobel winner of Peace and founder of Habitat for Humanity would only do this if it was good, right?) :eyes:

The only conclusion I have been able to come to of late is that whenever you see something like this happening, or the way some GOP politicians suddenely have mea culpas or recant on something that may have resembled critique of the administration is that "they" (those in charge behind the scenes, pulling the strings) must pull these people into a room and threaten their family and loved ones in such a way that they have no choice. And I believe the people who may have dared to defy them (think Paul Wellstone) end up the way Paul Wellstone did.

It is the only explanation I can come up with for how "they" get people to suddenely recant or people like Clinton to stand side by side with them smiling or Nancy Reagan walking next to Bush at Ronnie's funeral (and letting him make comparisons of himself to her dear Ronnie) or Carter to be a part of this charade called the protection of our elections and votes. I think these people are literally having their loved ones threatened and if they don't have a choice because the alternative is too frightening....

[Up2Late]

4. Well, it seems like a step up from what the ReThuglicans in my State

of Georgia just did, but maybe that was part of the plan.

I Hate James Baker 3 also, but do you really think he Played Former President Carter, not sayin' just askin'.

[applegrove]

5. They recommended verifiable paper trails. So it half worked. More

change will come - as long as we don't give up on 2006.

[Coastie for Truth]

7. Baker is Daddy Bush's "Karl Rove"

Fancy with a Princeton degree, and a law degree, and Marine Corps service (contrasted with Turd Blossom Rove) - but still a sleaze.

And Jimmie Carter is still naive Jimmie Carter.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

8. You got that right, Coastie...

...http://www.karlandkinggeorge.com/Careful_How_We_Use_Him.html