Flap Your Lips Friday
Posted by Michelle Moquin on September 19th, 2014
Good morning!
There is an increase in minority voter registration. It’s a good thing if more people want to get out and vote, right? Right, unless you’re the Right…then…not so good – Minority voters are usually Dems.
Here’s the right..um..I mean the write from Think Progress.
Too Much Democracy?
Georgia Republicans Lament Efforts To Expand Voting Access, Try To Stop Them
As November approaches, Georgia finds itself home to a toss-up Senate race between Democrat Michelle Nunn and Republican David Perdue. With such a competitive race, voters are registering at a higher rate than usual and county election boards are taking steps to expand access to the polls. America has one of the worst turnout rates of any developed country in the world, so you’d like to think that everybody would be cheering this news. But some Republican officials are worried that these measures are resulting in the increased participation of minority voters, and that that fact could spell trouble for their own candidates.
Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp is one of these officials. Think Progress’s Josh Israel reports on new audio released by progressive voting rights organization Better Georgia that captures Kemp sharing his frustration over it’s grassroots effort to register minority voters for the election. Here’s an excerpt from the tape:
Democrats are working hard, and all these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines, if they can do that, they can win these elections in November.
Using the power of his position, Kemp plans to fight back. On Tuesday, Kemplaunched a “voter fraud” investigation into the voter registration effort, which he says he suspects may have “forged voter registration applications, forged signatures on releases, and applications with false or inaccurate information.” (As a reminder, the problem of voter fraud is essentially non-existent.)
Kemp is not the only one feeling threatened. Just the day before he launched his investigation, another Republican, state senator Fran Millar, complained thatvoting is too convenient for black people. One of Georgia’s largest counties announced last week that it will allow early voting on a Sunday in late October and will open an early voting location in a shopping mall popular among local African-Americans. Millar penned an angry response, explaining that “this location is dominated by African American shoppers and it is near several large African American mega churches such as New Birth Missionary Baptist.” When asked to stand by his comments, Millar only got more offensive, writing in a Facebook post, “I would prefer more educated voters than a greater increase in the number of voters.”
BOTTOM LINE: Expanding voting access by increasing opportunities to vote and increasing voter registration is something that deserves to be celebrated in our democracy. Instead, some officials in Georgia, feeling threatened by what might happen if more people exercise their constitutional right, resort to name calling and launching specious investigations that are more likely intended for voter suppression than anything else.
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Readers: If we really have one of the worst turnouts of any developed country, we many not be able to change the demographics, but we can change the voting demographic now by just making sure minorities, who usually vote Dem, become the majority at the polls. Voter turnout currently is 38%. That is crazy that we have so little people voting.
A minority bump up at the polls can drastically change the election results. Everyone needs to encourage people to register and vote. Some of you have made comments stating that you need the white female vote to achieve equality (That’s a nod do you Juanita), but that they don’t care about the issue equality. If you feel like you can’t rely on white women, then don’t count on them to achieve equality…do it yourself. Get to the polls and make sure minorities get to the polls…women and men.
It’s happening. Let’s keep it going and defeat those repubs. The time is now.
Thoughts? It’s Friday…start flapping those lips.
Hi, Lois: When I read Morris’ comment I was reminded of a story my mother told me when she was in her late 20′s. My father and her had good friends – he black, she white – and whenever they went out they experienced racism. They couldn’t go into some restaurants, and this was in liberal California. One doesn’t need to imagine what other parts of the world were like, and still are.
Auspicious or not…I love a good love story. Thanks for sharing, Morris. By the way, congratulations to you both for showing us such a loving and successful marriage. You are both inspirations. xo
Mabel: Yes, big change can come with a demographic change. But I don’t think waiting is the answer. I’m certainly not going to wait. And it doesn’t look like others are either. Did you read today’s write? Debra: I HOPE you read it too.
Paula: I am aways glad the repubs reveal themselves because the more they do the more we know about them, and it isn’t pretty…and we all need to know. I love your conviction. Me too. Let’s keep it going.
Peace Out.
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September 19th, 2014 at 9:18 am
This white girl hopes you are right Michelle. If white women don’t wake up and vote those women hating republicans out, this could be a terrible season for women’s rights.
September 19th, 2014 at 9:23 am
Looking forward to the success of Eric. Keep shooting them. Amigo.
September 19th, 2014 at 9:28 am
I hope you are working behind the scenes to help the situation a the polls Michelle. I live in Iowa. It is one of the five states that has never sent a female to the house of representatives. Stacy Apple is running. She would have more of a chance if there were more OTW women in my state.
But alas, that is not true. Most white women just cannot make themselves support a woman over a man.
September 19th, 2014 at 9:30 am
Howie, I want to know about this?
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More than 18,000 U.S military personnel are taking part in an exercise called Valiant Shield along with two aircraft carriers, 19 surface ships, and more than 200 aircraft in Guam through Sept. 23, according to the U.S. Navy. There are also submarines involved in the drills, said its operational commander Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery.
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Are the aliens still here?
September 19th, 2014 at 9:36 am
Obama’s sanctions against Russia are beginning to have a severe effect. Russian banks pay the most on record to gain dollar funding and government bonds have suffered the biggest losses among emerging markets, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The Micex Index of stocks is down 6 percent from this year’s high on June 24.
The reversal for the ruble is driving up inflation amid the slowest wage growth in more than three years, while rising yields have led to the scrapping of nine straight bond auctions, pressuring government revenue. The consequences are beginning to feed through to growth, said Ivan Tchakarov at Citigroup Inc.
“Sanctions at present are biting more with regard to financial markets and less with regard to the real economy,” Tchakarov, the chief economist at Citigroup in Moscow, said by e-mail yesterday. “We may see the real impact on the economy only next year.”
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If Obama can get a little more support from the republicans, he can put even more pressure on Putin.
September 19th, 2014 at 9:51 am
5 States Still Have Never Elected a Woman to Congress!
From the Northeast to the Midwest to the Deep South, five states still have not elected a woman to Congress: Delaware, Iowa, Mississippi, Vermont and North Dakota. In 1992, Jocelyn Birch Burdick of North Dakota was appointed to serve a three-month term in the Senate after her husband, the elected senator, died. Only eighteen states have elected a woman to the Senate.
Comparing women’s representation to the national legislative bodies of other countries, the U.S. ranks 71st in the world, with only 16.8% of all House and Senate seats currently held by women.
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Someone please tell me why women in America won’t elect women. In America we women out number the men at the polls. We have the numerical advantage. So why the hell is the above situation true? What does a woman have to do to get a woman to vote for her?
The men in office are restricting women’s rights. The republicans denied women the right to equality and women have begun supporting that party more and more. What is needed to light a fire under women?
September 19th, 2014 at 9:58 am
China’s air force “is pursuing modernization on a scale unprecedented in its history and is rapidly closing the gap with Western air forces across a broad spectrum of capabilities including aircraft, command and control, jammers, electronic warfare and data-links.
China claims about 90 percent of the South China Sea under a map first published in 1947, a territory that takes in the Paracel Islands, which are claimed by Vietnam, and the Spratly Islands, some of which are claimed by the Philippines. The U.S. is treaty bound to protect allies the Philippines and Japan, which has its own territorial spat with China.
China is starting to get real concerned about all that man power in the area. I’ll leave it to Howie to explain the alien connection, but China”s assertions to territory in the East and South China seas have led to tension as it pushes back against U.S. President Barack Obama’s so-called rebalance to Asia. Last month the U.S. formally protested what it called a provocation by a Chinese fighter jet that buzzed within 20 feet of a Navy surveillance aircraft about 135 miles (217 kilometers) east of Hainan Island, the southernmost tip of China.
September 19th, 2014 at 10:02 am
The island of Guam sits near the Philippine Sea tectonic plate, which is bordered by the larger Pacific and Eurasia plates, and the smaller Sunda plate.
I am worried about after shocks. What’s happening?
Hafa adai
September 19th, 2014 at 10:06 am
The republicans will break any law to win. They don’t care what the law says because they believe they will not be subject to the rules of law if they win.
September 19th, 2014 at 10:10 am
The last public figure actually CONVICTED of voter fraud was Indiana’s Sec. of State … a REPUBLICAN
thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/02/04/…
And try to actually educate yourself about the REPUBICAN-GENERATED Myth of “Voter Fraud”:
newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/29/12…
September 19th, 2014 at 10:12 am
Facts have a long and storied history of liberal bias – that’s why Repubicans rarely (if ever) bother with them.
Try and educate yourself, because there are five – FIVE – Repubican governors who are trailing Democrats: Maine, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Florida and Georgia. (And unlike you, who pull your mendacity from where-the-sun-don’t-shine, I actually provide real Links documenting my facts)
talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/polls-…
And of those FIVE Repubicans who are trailing, NOT ONE expanded Medicaid.
advisory.com/daily-briefing/resources…
Stop your lying, and start actually providing Links that support your contentions.
September 19th, 2014 at 10:15 am
Michelle, we need some help with the fraud and theft the republicans are poised to unleash at the polls. Florida, Wisconsin, Maine, Texas, Georgia, and Ohio are poised to go blue this year along with Democratic voters desired for the changes in their states. We outnumbered Republican voters by 3-1 margin.
September 19th, 2014 at 10:16 am
Thank you President Obama for standing up for Amendment XV. It’s about time that we all got together and spoke out against those who continue to take citizens’ right to vote. It’s unconstitutional! So, why hasn’t anyone come right out and said this?
September 19th, 2014 at 10:16 am
Its strange that regular Americans who vote republican cant see that this is really an attack against their rights as well as everyone elses.
And most of those brain dead people call themselves constitutionalists
September 19th, 2014 at 10:17 am
How would Republicans feel if they were permanently banned from ever voting at all? How would they feel?
September 19th, 2014 at 10:18 am
Thank you President Obama for standing up for the people of this country. Republicans can’t govern or offer policy that will move this country forward. They are trying to win by cheating…
September 19th, 2014 at 10:19 am
Johnny#15, They wouldn’t tolerate it for 1 day. The Tea Party rallies are angry for imagined injustices. Especially since the Obama era. Can you imagine Obama or Holder passing voting restrictions that target red leaning districts? Or entire states. Eight hour lines for thee but not for me!
September 19th, 2014 at 10:38 am
Don’t you just love the irony. Anti-government survivalists are hunting cops.
September 19th, 2014 at 10:40 am
Most of the whites here I meet don’t feel any fear from the guy. They seem to be okay that he is only a threat to government and not them. White thinking, if you can call it that is fucked up sometimes. He could actually end up being some kind of anti-hero.
September 21st, 2014 at 12:53 pm
[…] Suzy: Like Paula, I am of the same mind that says, “I will do everything possible to work against them (the republicans) in 2014. Encouraging minorities to vote is just another way to get more Dems to the polls. It isn’t just white women who need to wake up. It is all women. All women, no matter what race, need to get to the polls and support our sisters by voting in the women and men that are going to legislate in our best interest, and not what is convenient or controlling or an example like the write I posted above. […]