I don’t have time today to thoroughly debunk all the reprehensible, anti-democratic, anti-American horseshit hurled by this FL State Rep. Dennis Baxley — the original sponsor of Florida’s new voter suppression laws, limiting early voting hours and imposing new big government regulations and huge fines against voter registration workers — as seen in the following interview on Al Sharpton’s Politics Nation<\/i> show on MSNBC this week.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, most readers of The BRAD BLOG<\/a> will be able to smell the bullshit of the smirking, democracy-hating Baxley a mile away even without my point-by-point rebuttal. So I’ll just run the video here for now without much comment, as it needs to be seen to be believed.<\/p>\nNear the front of the interview, Baxley admits that there’s been no voter fraud problem in FL, and by the end he’s charging (without a stitch of evidence, naturally) that the non-partisan<\/i> League of Women Voters, who have been registering voters in the Sunshine State for some 72 years — but who have now canceled their registration program for 2012 thanks to the onerous new GOP restrictions and fines on registration workers — is actually a partisan<\/i> Democratic organization! Who knew?<\/p>\nMy loathing towards those who knowingly undermine American democracy is difficult to contain. So consider my restraint today an undeserved favor to you this afternoon, Mr. Baxley.<\/p>\n<\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\nOh, and for good measure, here’s some info on some Florida school teachers<\/i> recently arrested and\/or charged for registering students to vote<\/a> in apparent violation of Baxley’s new anti-voting laws!<\/p>\nOne thing I’m happy to see this year at least: MSNBC has been covering the GOP War on Voting — at least the front-end war, the part in which Republicans are trying to keep millions of legal voters from being able to cast their legal vote at all — very well this cycle, on many of their shows. Hopefully they’ll soon begin covering concerns about the accuracy and transparency of the vote count itself, at least the vote counts of those who find themselves able<\/i> to cast a vote in 2012, in any case.<\/p>\n* * *<\/b><\/center><\/p>\nIf you’d like more details on the above…Earlier on the same show, Deirdre Macnab, President of the non-partisan<\/i> LWV Florida, explained to Sharpton why they’ve been forced to stop their registration program in Florida after 72 years. As they note on their web page where the interview is posted<\/a>…<\/p>\nUnder new laws, third parties who want to help register voters could face $5,000 fines, a third degree felony and up to 5 years in prison<\/a> if they violate any of the broad provisions noted in the legal paperwork<\/a>.<\/div>\nThat much shorter interview follows below…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I don’t have time today to thoroughly debunk all the reprehensible, anti-democratic, anti-American horseshit hurled by this FL State Rep. Dennis Baxley — the original sponsor of Florida’s new voter suppression laws, limiting early voting hours and imposing new big government regulations and huge fines against voter registration workers — as seen in the following […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-sharpton","category-election-2012"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Near the front of the interview, Baxley admits that there’s been no voter fraud problem in FL, and by the end he’s charging (without a stitch of evidence, naturally) that the non-partisan<\/i> League of Women Voters, who have been registering voters in the Sunshine State for some 72 years — but who have now canceled their registration program for 2012 thanks to the onerous new GOP restrictions and fines on registration workers — is actually a partisan<\/i> Democratic organization! Who knew?<\/p>\n
My loathing towards those who knowingly undermine American democracy is difficult to contain. So consider my restraint today an undeserved favor to you this afternoon, Mr. Baxley.<\/p>\n
Oh, and for good measure, here’s some info on some Florida school teachers<\/i> recently arrested and\/or charged for registering students to vote<\/a> in apparent violation of Baxley’s new anti-voting laws!<\/p>\nOne thing I’m happy to see this year at least: MSNBC has been covering the GOP War on Voting — at least the front-end war, the part in which Republicans are trying to keep millions of legal voters from being able to cast their legal vote at all — very well this cycle, on many of their shows. Hopefully they’ll soon begin covering concerns about the accuracy and transparency of the vote count itself, at least the vote counts of those who find themselves able<\/i> to cast a vote in 2012, in any case.<\/p>\n* * *<\/b><\/center><\/p>\nIf you’d like more details on the above…Earlier on the same show, Deirdre Macnab, President of the non-partisan<\/i> LWV Florida, explained to Sharpton why they’ve been forced to stop their registration program in Florida after 72 years. As they note on their web page where the interview is posted<\/a>…<\/p>\nUnder new laws, third parties who want to help register voters could face $5,000 fines, a third degree felony and up to 5 years in prison<\/a> if they violate any of the broad provisions noted in the legal paperwork<\/a>.<\/div>\nThat much shorter interview follows below…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I don’t have time today to thoroughly debunk all the reprehensible, anti-democratic, anti-American horseshit hurled by this FL State Rep. Dennis Baxley — the original sponsor of Florida’s new voter suppression laws, limiting early voting hours and imposing new big government regulations and huge fines against voter registration workers — as seen in the following […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-sharpton","category-election-2012"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
One thing I’m happy to see this year at least: MSNBC has been covering the GOP War on Voting — at least the front-end war, the part in which Republicans are trying to keep millions of legal voters from being able to cast their legal vote at all — very well this cycle, on many of their shows. Hopefully they’ll soon begin covering concerns about the accuracy and transparency of the vote count itself, at least the vote counts of those who find themselves able<\/i> to cast a vote in 2012, in any case.<\/p>\n
If you’d like more details on the above…Earlier on the same show, Deirdre Macnab, President of the non-partisan<\/i> LWV Florida, explained to Sharpton why they’ve been forced to stop their registration program in Florida after 72 years. As they note on their web page where the interview is posted<\/a>…<\/p>\nUnder new laws, third parties who want to help register voters could face $5,000 fines, a third degree felony and up to 5 years in prison<\/a> if they violate any of the broad provisions noted in the legal paperwork<\/a>.<\/div>\nThat much shorter interview follows below…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I don’t have time today to thoroughly debunk all the reprehensible, anti-democratic, anti-American horseshit hurled by this FL State Rep. Dennis Baxley — the original sponsor of Florida’s new voter suppression laws, limiting early voting hours and imposing new big government regulations and huge fines against voter registration workers — as seen in the following […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-sharpton","category-election-2012"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
That much shorter interview follows below…<\/p>\n
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I don’t have time today to thoroughly debunk all the reprehensible, anti-democratic, anti-American horseshit hurled by this FL State Rep. Dennis Baxley — the original sponsor of Florida’s new voter suppression laws, limiting early voting hours and imposing new big government regulations and huge fines against voter registration workers — as seen in the following […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-sharpton","category-election-2012"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}