Rethugs in TX try to cram through discriminatory voter legislation-force very ill senator to appear

[babylonsister]

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/246

Republicans in Texas try to cram through discriminatory voter legislation, force senator to come to work against doctors orders
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 05/22/2007 - 2:32pm. Alerts

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Thom Prentice, Austin, Texas

Texas Lt. Gov. and 19 Senate Republicans nominated for worst person in the world honors on Keith Olbermann's MSNBC program!

Texas state senator Mario Gallegos, Jr. (D-Houston), who had a LIVER TRANSPLANT last winter, has been forced by Republican Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and 19 Republican state senators to stay in a hospital bed in a small room next to the Texas Senate in the state's capitol building AGAINST DOCTORS ORDERS.

Why? Were Gallegos absent, Dewhurst and the 19 Republicans could bring up the new, phony, racist, fake voter ID legislation that is a solution looking for a problem. (Why don't they look into the 2000 and 2004 Republican-assisted vote counting fraud in Florida and Ohio instead?) The bill would discourage minority voters from going to the polls by requiring them to prove their citizenship at the polls IN ADDITION to having a Voter Registration Card, receipt of which already requires some proof of identity.

It's just a new incarnation of the segregationist, confederate poll tax to intimidate minority voters from going to the polls and so I nominate Dewhurst and the 19 human and civil rights- and human-rights denying segregationist, Confederate Texas Republicans for WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD.

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[youngdem]

1. Yeah, they ran the setup piece in the Austin American-Statesman earlier in the week

Where the Statesman 'exposed' the practice of lawmakers casting proxies for their absent colleagues during meaningless procedural votes, as if there was some risk that a legislator would vote against the intent of the proxy office holder.

I see now that this ridiculous story was a setup for this bullshit maneuver for Repukes to gain unfair advantage -while claiming to do it in the name of fairness, honesty and transparency - perfectly Rovian fashion.