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Subscribe to RSSARIZONA: “A PAC supporting Jesse Kelly in the race to replace Gabrielle Giffords in Congress has sent an e-mail using an image of the Republican candidate holding an assault rifle,” USA Today writes.
And Nancy Pelosi’s name was attached to an email sent out by another Super PAC, House Majority PAC, trying to raise money off the Gabby Giffords tragedy. The subject line: “For Gabby...” The ask: “Right now, my friends at House Majority PAC are airing a powerful new ad exposing the Republican in the race for who he is. If we want to continue Gabby's great work in Congress, we must elect Democrat Ron Barber and other Democratic candidates. That means getting the truth out about Tea Party extremists like Jesse Kelly. We have set a goal to raise $50,000 more to help House Majority PAC bring home a victory on Tuesday and beyond. Will you join us?”
FLORIDA: As the drama in Florida continues to unfold, the Tampa Bay Times editorial page scolds Gov. Rick Scott (R), comparing him to Gov. George Wallace: “This June, the governor of another Southern state is challenging the federal government's authority. Nearly 50 years after Wallace's showdown, you are standing between Floridians and their right to vote as U.S. citizens. We agree that only citizens should vote, but your approach to cleaning up the voter rolls is fatally flawed. The U.S. Justice Department and county supervisors of election have reached the same conclusion and told you to stop, yet you persist.”
“Florida's noncitizen voter purge looks like it's all but over,” the Miami Herald’s Caputo writes. “The 67 county elections supervisors — who have final say over voter purges — are not moving forward with the purge for now because nearly all of them don't trust the accuracy of a list of nearly 2,700 potential noncitizens identified by the state's elections office.”
NORTH DAKOTA: Start re-jiggering those Senate Top 10s. “A new Mason-Dixon poll in North Dakota shows Heidi Heitkamp (D) holding a very slim lead over Rick Berg (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 47% to 46%,” Political Wire writes.
PENNSYLVANIA: There’s an anti-union push in the Keystone state as well, drumming up controversy.
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not counting votes of American citizens for Bush, preventing American citizens to vote to give Romney a chance to win ...what's new in FL?
The FL data on many new citizens are out-dated - many of them were not citizens yet when they applied for their driver's licence. Their data is not updated after becoming citizen. These new citizens could be excluded from voting based on the new FL voting law and the old data.
For some reason the Republicans don't have the confidence that these new citizens can be pro-GOP. What did the GOP do to new and vulberable citizens?
Krugman said it best: "the Republican electoral strategy is, in effect, a gigantic con game: It depends on convincing voters that the bad economy is the result of big-spending policies that President Barack Obama hasn’t followed (in large part because the GOP wouldn’t let him), and that our woes can be cured by pursuing more of the same policies that have already failed. For some reason, however, neither the press nor Obama’s political team has done a very good job of exposing the con."
I too, am too informed to vote for Republicans. Republican voters’ everywhere must be deeply insane or foolishly deaf and blind.
Republicans held the White House, the House and the Senate for six long years. And they did something no one had ever tried in 200 years of history: they tried to fund two wars by cutting taxes three times. It's that simple. They took everything they inherited: the jobs, the surplus, the stature of our country around the world -- and they squandered it....
Republicans looted the Constitution with the Patriot Act in the same period. Republicans were attacking the rights of gay people in the same period. Who wants to talk about liberty?
Please... Republicans are the biggest fakes the world has ever known. Republicans don’t really care about spending. Republicans only care about money that we spend on education and healthcare
(things that actually improve society).....but spending three trillion dollars we borrow from China on unnecessary war in Iraq.....Halliburton and Karl Marx approved!!
4500 dead Americans and 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians’ deaths later and now Republicans care about "life"? I think not.....
They might be able to rouse the bigots and some religious zealots telling others who they can’t marry but the Republican policies of lowering taxes and deregulating have unequivocally failed all but maybe 5% of Americans.
Republicans don’t actually stand for anything, and funny thing is, no one asks them to. Especially their hacks in the payola media; the people who should be asking the hard questions but don't because they want those Republican dollars!
It is time for Fort Sumter to fire on Florida and end their rebellion against the constitution and minorities. Their leader is a tall thin man, but without a beard and doesn't call himself Al something. Send him a drone full of Justice Department lawyers. The United States needs boots on the ground to protect targeted citizens.
Fort Sumter won't fire on Florida, remember thats Newt country. I don't know how much more that state can take since they bought off on the GOP syrup. They are going down real fast with the GOP/IP types. Good luck to them.
I am so incredibly disgusted with tea party backed Gov. Scott here in Florida. This so called voter purge is just one more insult to the people of Florida by this so called governor.
If one person who is eligible to vote is denied their right to do so by the actions of this governor the whole process is unconstitutional. I find it amazing that this group of so called patriots who purport to love the Constitution so much spend an awful lot of time trying to game it, circumvent it and modify it to their liking.This crap is not the work of patriots, it's the work of tyrants and will not be tolerated.
Patriots my butt!