On Tuesday the Department of Justice called a witness in its trial against Texas’ voter ID law. The witness, 18-year-old Victoria Rose Rodriguez, was originally noted in this AP story accordingly:
Victoria Rose Rodriguez, 18, told a federal court in Washington that she had limited documentation — a birth certificate, a high school transcript and a student ID card with a photo on it — but is currently a registered voter in Texas. She said her parents are too busy to take her or her twin sister to get the new voter identification cards required by the law. (emphasis added)
Rodriguez’s story contains a glaring hole: She flew to Washington to testify. How did she have time to do that, but not have time to get a photo ID?
Since Christian Adams noted the discrepancy here at PJM, the AP story has changed and now reads:
In her testimony Tuesday, Rodriguez testified that she’s currently a registered voter but would not be able to meet the requirements of Texas’ new law. She said she lacked the necessary documents and the ability to travel to a location where she can obtain the newly required voter ID.
Her obvious problem remains: If she has the time to fly from San Antonio to Washington to testify and fly back to Texas, she has time to get an ID. But the time reference is now gone from the AP story.
For the Department of Justice to attempt such a snow job is a disgrace. For the Associated Press to buy her story hook, line and sinker is a joke. For the AP to also airbrush its story once the hole in her testimony is exposed is an act of dishonesty.
Ummm … how did she fly to Washington without an ID? Every time I take a plane, I get poll taxed by the TSA at least twice. She lacks an ID to vote, but apparently has one to board an airplane? I call shenanigans!
DOJ called her to testify. Odds are that they had a ‘fixer’ at the airport to tell DHS that she’s one of us. That’s how Chicago politics works – we don’t want nobody nobody sent – and DOJ was officially ‘sending’ her.
How did she get on an airplane without photo ID?
I’m guessing that George Soros flew her up on a private jet. This sounds very similar to “I can afford Georgetown Law School but I can’t afford $9 per month for birth control”.
In her testimony Tuesday, Rodriguez testified that she’s currently a registered voter but would not be able to meet the requirements of Texas’ new law. She said she lacked the necessary documents…
She is a registered voter, but she lacks the necessary documents to get a photo ID? I’d be asking questions about her legal status. Oh, but wait, she’s probably one of those “children” Obama wants to grant amnesty to.
IMO, she’s just another Fluker.
Senorita Rodriguez’ Community Organizer is an utter failure! On Election Day, he/she will get her door to door transport from wherever she is to whever she wants to be, via the polling place, gratis, no matter how many times she wishes to vote.
Dumb kid should move to Chicago where she would qualify for an additional Pint of Whiskey per ballot.
Gotta set up those five million phony ballots this November!
Too bad her voter ID wasn’t available in D.C., since she could obviously travel there.
“She said she lacked the necessary documents …”
Which documents might they be? WOuld be nice if they / she had been specific.
I did read the orignal article and the AP did “report” that she said her parents were too busy. Damn. Getting to vote on who rules the world and how is just So. Much. Trouble.
As others have noted elsewhere, there is public transportation, no? Isn’t that what everyone is supposed to use to get around in this enlighted 21st century?
She apparently did have a school photo ID, but I am not sure if the TSA accepts those. Is that counted as “government issued?” She did have her birth certificate (she brought it to DC and BHO can’t even find his?) which of course did not have a valid picture on it. She obviously had some greasing of the wheels going on in order to fly to DC. (How did they find this poor helpless child?)
It is sad to see the DOJ become a Clown Show. Not to mention a tool of the radical left.
As for the AP — I wonder when “reporting” stopped being investigative? Did not one of those reporters think to ask the simple questions?
Apparently not. They are too invested in being “agents of social and political change” than they are in reporting.
Voter registration cards are sent by MAIL to the ADDRESS OF RECORD FOR REGISTERED VOTERS. If you don’t have an address of record, there’s no way to tell what precinct to vote in.
So, that’s complete B.S.
HOW STUPID DO THEY THINK WE ARE?
And when does Air Force One take the Obama tribe to campaign in Mexico? That’s apparently where most of his votes are going to come from.
Just for laughs, Romney should go to Mexico and do a campaign speech.
The bizarre irony here is that the Obamacare doctor’s office requires photo ID before it can dispense free contraceptives. Second thing the receptionist asks for after an insurance card is a photo ID.