Color this awkward. Angela De Rocha, current spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services took time out of her schedule to pan the idea of voter education promoted by League of Women Voters in a facebook post on Monday.
The League of Women Voters, along with other advocates, have argued for a basic one-day course offered to college students aimed at teaching them how to register to vote, where to vote and the mechanics within Kansas. Citing issues of the complex form in Kansas, as well as many students being unaware if they were registered in their home county or the county of their university, the League put the idea out for consideration.
And then, following up on the idea as posted by AP Reporter John Hanna, Brownback staff & Republican leadership chimed in.
De Rocha, who supposedly works for the state in helping to assist persons of disabilities implies that not only is the concept of the course wrong, but
"Do we really want these slow learners voting?"
This isn't the first time that De Rocha has made cracks about those she is supposedly employed to serve. In 2013, after cuts in services, Angela De Rocha referred to recipients of required health care as follows:
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In an earlier interview, de Rocha offered an analogy for Medicaid recipients upset by KanCare's reduction in services. She says it's as if she had been giving someone a new car every year and then suddenly stopped.
"Your natural response to that is going to be, 'Why is she being so mean to me?'" de Rocha tells The Pitch. "That's just human nature. It's very difficult to take away something once you get it. People get used to it. They think that's what you need."
As the spokesman for those persons with disabilities, apparently cracks about the rights of the disabled to vote seems like a good idea in a state mired in longstanding fights over voting access rights.
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