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Democracy for New Mexico
Susana Martinez, the GOP candidate for New Mexico governor, is being feted at a
high-dollar fundraiser in DC on September 14th hosted by none other than the Republican Governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, among others. The old saw goes that you can tell a lot about a person's character by the company he or she keeps. In this case, Susana's supporters reek of some of the worst connections the Republican Party has to offer.
McDonnell Hearts Slavery
Govenor McDonnell, who took office this past January, is known for declaring April Confederate History Month, failing to mention that the Confederates fought to preserve slavery (because, he explained to reporters, slavery did not rate as one of the issues "most significant for Virginia"). Two months before that, McDonnel issued an executive order banning discrimination in state government that pointedly removed Virginia's previous protections based on sexual orientation.
Threats of voter disenfranchisement continue with a fresh report coming out of Michigan. Apparently, the Michigan GOP and its lawyers are thinking of using the foreclosure crisis to it’s electoral advantage.
via The Michigan Messenger:
The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County Michigan, a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the upcoming election as part of the state GOP’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.
“We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses,” party chairman James Carabelli told Michigan Messenger in a telephone interview earlier this week. He said the local party wanted to make sure that proper electoral procedures were followed. . . .
The Michigan Republicans’ planned use of foreclosure lists is apparently an attempt to challenge ineligible voters as not being “true residents.”
One expert questioned the legality of the tactic.
This was a strange speech, y'all ... it's not often that the Presidential nominee gets upstaged by his VP pick. But I think that happened tonight.
John "McSame" McCain claims that Obama believes he is the "anointed one" to save our country at our hour of need. Yet Senator Obama said last week that this campaign is not about him. It's about us. And pray tell, what did John McSame tell us tonight?
He told us that he's the better choice to be President because he was a prisoner of war. That being a prisoner of war made him love America more, which means he's the better man to be President than Barack Obama ever will be. I've never quite understood that logic, but I guess it's because I'm not a Republican.
McSame also LIED to us tonight. Not just once. Several times. I'll lay out some of the BIG ones for ya:
McSame told us that "I will keep taxes low and cut them where I can. My opponent will raise
them."
REALITY: Obama Will Cut Taxes, McCain Will Raise Them
- "The Tax Policy Center, a research group run by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, has done the most detailed analysis of the Obama and McCain tax plans, and it has published a series of fascinating tables.
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