Palast: AZ goal to disenfranchise Latinos

[Doctor_J]

http://www.gregpalast.com/

Don't be fooled. The way the media plays the story, it was a wave of racist, anti-immigrant hysteria that moved Arizona Republicans to pass a sick little law, signed last week, requiring every person in the state to carry papers proving they are US citizens.

I don't buy it. Anti-Hispanic hysteria has always been as much a part of Arizona as the Saguaro cactus and excessive air-conditioning.

What's new here is not the politicians' fear of a xenophobic "Teabag" uprising.

What moved GOP Governor Jan Brewer to sign the Soviet-style show-me-your-papers law is the exploding number of legal Hispanics, US citizens all, who are daring to vote -- and daring to vote Democratic by more than two-to-one. Unless this demographic locomotive is halted, Arizona Republicans know their party will soon be electoral toast. Or, if you like, tortillas.


more...http://www.gregpalast.com/

[rfranklin]

1. It seem that this would seal the Republicans' fate...

They are motivating all the Spanish speaking people of the USA to vote against them forever.

[louis-t]

2. And so it shall be.

[Tempest]

3. Repugs are always shooting themselves in the foot

This is just the latest example.

Another one is choosing Steele to be the RNC leader.

[Doctor_J]

4. No, they're moving to have no Spanish-speaking people allowed to vote

with this SCOTUS, I wouldn't rule it out.

[yurbud]

5. shouldn't there be a certain threshhold of people denied the right to vote that triggers...

an automatic federal civil rights investigation?

[Tutankhamun]

6. This is yet another reason I love Mexico and Mexican people.

They vote Democratic.

And I went to Tijuana just this morning to procure a little unobtainium.