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riqster

(13,986 posts)
Wed May 21, 2014, 09:44 AM May 2014

Repubs who want to take away your right to vote: homeowner department.

Teabagger Judson Phillips for one: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/11/30/132532/tea-party-voting-property/

"If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners”


And Ted Yoho for another: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5360208/?ir=Business
"I’ve had some radical ideas about voting and it’s probably not a good time to tell them, but you used to have to be a property owner to vote," Yoho said in unearthed footage uploaded on Tuesday by Right Wing Watch.


That is over one-third of all Americans they'd dis-en-fucking-franchise.

Christ in a teapot.
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Repubs who want to take away your right to vote: homeowner department. (Original Post) riqster May 2014 OP
That would disenfranchise millions in NYC HockeyMom May 2014 #1
If that were to happen i would sell 1 square foot parcels of some of my land SQUEE May 2014 #2
That. Is. Fucking. Genius. riqster May 2014 #3
As a property owner, I object to this idea csziggy May 2014 #4
The teabagger said as much. riqster May 2014 #5
 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
1. That would disenfranchise millions in NYC
Wed May 21, 2014, 09:47 AM
May 2014

especially in Manhattan. Only millionaires can vote? Oh, they would like that one for sure.

SQUEE

(1,315 posts)
2. If that were to happen i would sell 1 square foot parcels of some of my land
Wed May 21, 2014, 09:55 AM
May 2014

to the people in my county for a buck. then give the proceeds to the most offensive (to a Repub) cause I can find...

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
4. As a property owner, I object to this idea
Wed May 21, 2014, 10:09 AM
May 2014

I personally think that people with hourly wage jobs have a big stake in the community because they want the local economy to do well so their jobs continue. Or maybe people with children because they want to plan ahead for the benefit of those children.

As for Phillips and Yoho, there is a reason the voting rules were changed to allow more than just property owners to vote. I'm surprised they haven't advocated for going back to the system of many of the early colonies - each colonist once admitted as a freeman owned a stake of the colony and was a shareholder. Only freemen were allowed to vote and they had to be approved by the other freemen before they were awarded that level of participation. Essentially, the colonies were corporations - these guys would love that system.

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