Block the Vote is the Republican Strategy according to RFK, JR and Greg Palast + their comic book

Block the Vote is the Republican Strategy according to RFK, JR and Greg Palast and not so funny comic book by: Karita Hummer Cross-posted from http://www.eenrblog.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2975 Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 04:08:23 AM EDT

Vigilance before the election. Electoral Reform after the election. This fight is about OUR Democracy. Join it; it is worth saving. Sign the Pledge of Action now at: http://www.nomorestolenelections.org/subscribe Heads up!! Bobby Kennedy, Jr. And Greg Palast have a not so funny comic book on vote purging and caging, but passing it around before the election might help us get the last laugh. http://www.stealbackyourvote.org/ In a Rolling Stone Article, Kennedy and Palast also tell the amazing story of how the Supervisor of Elections in Las Vegas, New Mexico found himself purged from the voting rolls on Super Tuesday during the Primary Election. About 20% of the voters in that County were said to have been purged, compared to 10% at large in the state, a high enough number to make any Democracy loving citizen cringe- and cry! Kennedy and Palast claim there is much to suggest that voter suppression has been a Republican solution to the dangers of democracy for their party since the days of the first Reagan election. See: http://www.rollingstone.com/po... For example, from a Reagan election year, they quoted a statement by Paul Weyrich, whom they describe currently as "a principal architect of today's Republican Party". At the time, Paul Weyrich was said to have "scolded evangelicals who believed in democracy", saying. "Many of our Christians have what I call the 'goo goo' syndrome - good government," said Weyrich, who co-founded Moral Majority with Jerry Falwell. "They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. . . . As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."" http://www.rollingstone.com/po... More below the fold...

Yikes!! How scary can it get? For now, we must be vigilant. Right after the elections, we have to pursue electoral reform legislation with teeth, hopefully, with a filibuster-proof Senate. For the last laugh, get the Kennedy-Palast not so funny comic book available for a donation at http://www.stealbackyourvote.org/ It can be downloaded there at the site. This is a comic book for sharing, for sure, or get their equally not so funny movie, at http://www.stealbackyourvote.o... This all hot off the presses. Go for it. Karita Hummer Edwards Democrat, insistent on electoral justice.

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