Yet again, this is what it looks like when a GOPer gets all butt hurt when someone calls them on their crap. I give you Rick ("Niggerhead") Perry alleged Governor of Texas.
“Perhaps while the President is visiting Texas, he can take a break from big-dollar fundraisers to disavow his Attorney General’s offensive and incendiary comments regarding our common-sense voter identification law,” the Republican governor said in a statement. “In labeling the Texas voter ID law as a ‘poll tax,’ Eric Holder purposefully used language designed to inflame passions and incite racial tension. It was not only inappropriate, but simply incorrect on its face.”
No, Ricky it was exactly correct. And over the flip I will explain why.
Here are Holder's comments.
“As many of you know, yesterday was the first day in the trial of a case that the state of Texas filed against the Justice Department under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act seeking approval of it’s proposed voter ID law,” Holder told attendees at the 103rd convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). “After close review, the department found that this law would be harmful to minority voters and we rejected its implementation.”
“Under the proposed law, concealed handgun licenses would be acceptable forms of photo ID, but student IDs would not,” the attorney general pointed out. “Many of those without IDs would have to travel great distances to get them. And some would struggle to pay for the documents they might need to obtain them.”
“We call those poll taxes,” Holder added, reportedly straying from his prepared remarks.
What makes a concealed carry/gun owner a greater right to vote than a student exactly? Oh, maybe it's the fact that conceal carriers tend to vote Republican while students don't?
Be that as it may Holder didn't call this a "Poll Tax" simply to "incite racial tensions" he did so because of the 24th Amendment which reads...
1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Requiring people to pay fees to the state, including to obtain a picture ID, is a TAX. Requiring people to pay that tax before they're allowed to vote is flat out
Unconstitutional. Period. End of Line.
“The president should apologize for Holder’s imprudent remarks and for his insulting lawsuit against the people of Texas,” Perry concluded.
That's really, really, seriously, not gonna happen Ricky. Nope.
Holder is right it's a Poll Tax which the DOJ is very likely to prove in court, while Perry is a Fracktard.
Vyan