The Obama administration continues to mess with Texas. The president visited the state Tuesday to ignore the ongoing wildfire, joke about the increasingly dangerous Texas-Mexico border, and bag wheelbarrows of cash for his re-election campaign. Meanwhile, his attorney general, Eric Holder, has told Texas Democrats that he’s eyeing two issues that the state legislature is working on this session, voter ID and redistricting, according to the Dallas Morning News’ Wayne Slater.
Here’s more from the Super Bowl party from Anchia: “I talked to the attorney general about keeping an eye on Texas in redistricting and photo ID. And his response was, “I’m not going to keep one eye on Texas. I’m going to keep both of them.’ That was an interesting comment from General Holder.” Democrats say a state law requiring voters to produce a photo ID is aimed at discouraging minority voters and the poor. And they worry that new congressional and legislative boundries drawn by the GOP-dominated House and Senate might dillute the voting strength of minorities, who tend to vote Democratic.
Slater never gives the counter argument to the Democrats’ shibboleth, which is that it’s not unreasonable to require photo ID to vote. In fact, it’s unreasonable to maintain the status quo, and a heavy majority of Texans agree. It’s also not unreasonable for the Republicans to control redistricting, since the voters of the state have voted them that power. The last time Republicans controlled redistricting, minority representation increased. And in 2010, minority representation in the Republican Party itself increased (that’s actually what has the Democrats in the state so terrified). Meanwhile, the Democrats still face a lawsuit from LULAC because their primary-caucus two-step system allows party bosses to dilute minority voting at the primary level. What Anchia and Martinez-Fischer are really worried about is that photo ID will make it harder for Democrats to cheat, redistricting will reflect the growing strength of the GOP in Texas as it should, and that Texas minorities are leaving the Democrats in droves on their own. Can’t have that!
So Holder is keeping “both eyes” on Texas, which really means he has the Texas Democrats’ back. Texas AG Greg Abbott would do well to follow Christian Adams’ advice and bypass Holder’s political DOJ altogether. State Rep. Phil King is looking into that very option.
he needs to be looking after his own people before he worries about anything else. especially given the fact that the ATF is responsible for the deaths of border agent brian terry and special ICE agent Jamie Zapata after the ATF allowed guns to be purchased to follow them and they ended up in the hands of mexican drug cartels. The two guns found at the scene of Terry’s death was traced back to the straw buyer from Phoenix who the ATF watched load guns into his car (its on video on youtube). They are also responsible for Zapata’s death after they allowed the same thing to happen in Texas, and on this one, they even had an undercover agent as a mole actually be part of the procedure to get the guns to mexico
Photo ID does not target the minorities or poor. It targets people from another country that are here illegally from voting in an election that is not their right to vote in. It’s bad enough that they were counted in the census.
But then, illegals will vote Democrat….so that’s why they must be counted.
I really don’t get the poor/minority slant. NC is considering this,hope they do it, and have stated “poor” will be able to get an ID for free. So what’s the problem (keeping illegals from voting, hmmm!!)?
When I noticed Holder was heading up the Caucasian Watch in the neighborhood of Texas, I felt my spirit wince in the way one would if hit by a billy club outside of a polling place.
more like the Dept. of In-justice… they’ll get theirs.
It’s virtually impossible to live as an adult in this country without some form of ID. Everyone has one. They’ve made valid IDs free. There’s no way that this can discriminate against anyone other than those here illegally. The benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. Unless, that is, you’re a democrat accustomed to relying on voter fraud to be elected.
Holder is an unadulterated racist and should be forced out. A smart campaign against Holder would be easy to put together. He screams racial self-interest.
Re Texas photo ID:
What’s wrong with having to show ID to vote? Me…I’d be glad to show ID just to be able to see the look of disappointment on ‘their’ faces when ‘they’ see I’m eligible to vote and am not ‘one of the can’t voters’.