Well Done, Worthy RNC Opponents, Well Done

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Saturday May 06, 2006 · 4:34 AM PDT

2006/05/06 · 04:34

Browsing through the official RNC website yesterday, I ran across a May 1 news release entitled, "Dem Energy Agenda: The Cost To American Families If Dems Had Their Way" (click the link, if you've got time, to see the hilarious doomsday banner they use to begin the news release). Amidst more-than-questionable claims of the dire consequences of Democratic energy policies, I encountered this graphic:

Before I even touch on the dubious "truthiness" behind the data used by the RNC to produce this news release, I want to take a moment to recognize the sick premise on which the GOP works when developing policies. Even if their data were accurate, consider the prioritization of Big Oil interests over those of the environment that must be so ingrained in the minds of the GOP leadership and policy-makers that would lead them to take such positions.

Now, GOP priorities aside, the news release is filled with outdated and illegitimate data. Read More

41 Years Later, Florida Gets Memo on Voting Rights Act

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Wednesday May 03, 2006 · 11:55 PM PDT

2006/05/03 · 23:55

537.
Five-hundred thirty-seven.

DXXXVII.

Ring any bells? Remember back to the year 2000 and to the fiasco over Florida's 25 electoral votes? Remember the counting and the recounting and the demand for careful scrutiny of every individual ballot? Remember the systematic denial of basic democratic rights to literally hundreds of thousands of Floridians--enough people to make 537 seem like a drop in the bucket? Remember how, of the 820,000 Floridians permanently disenfranchised due to felony convictions, 600,000 had long since paid their dues to society by completely serving out their sentences?

Well, yesterday a bill passed through the Florida legislature taking one small step toward updating their antiquated felon disenfranchisement laws, which were deemed to be racially discriminatory by a 2003 decision handed down by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (though later overturned by that same court and denied of a review by the Supreme Court). Read More

How can we disenfranchise over 300,000 Blacks? Really $#&%ing easily, that's how!

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Tuesday May 02, 2006 · 4:33 AM PDT

2006/05/02 · 04:33

The answer is easy: continue to allow the media and Congress alike to ignore the lack of voting representation of the citizens of Washington, DC.

Amid the much-touted burgeoning democracy in Iraq, the controversial elections in New Orleans, and the excitement of this year's increasingly promising Congressional elections, a centuries-old issue has managed to be kept on the back burner and under wraps, rendering voiceless more than half a million American citizens living in the capital of the greatest democracy in the world.

Matters of constitutional rights that hinder our democratic process impact every national policy decision, from the war in Iraq to immigration reform, from healthcare to education, and from network neutrality to environmental protection. Because of their universal effect on the decisions made through our democratic process, such matters should certainly leave us trying to bring them to the forefront of national media and congressional debate; but the pointed and racially-motivated reasoning behind this particular matter should leave us nothing less than astounded and disgusted. Read More

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