An Ohio state senator said that limiting early-voting hours there to 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays will leave predominantly urban areas having to “beg to vote.”
“And it is absolutely shameful that Jim Crow has been resurrected in this country and particularly the state of Ohio,” Nina Turner (D-Ohio) said on MSNBC last night. “He’s packed his bags and he’s moved north. He’s in Ohio, he’s in Pennsylvania, he’s making repeat performances in Florida.”
Turner said that the early-voting hours are inconvenient for people working two or three jobs.
“What is the cost of the state of Ohio returning to the debacle of 2004?” she said of blocked Democratic efforts to expand the voting hours. “Yes, there will be a cost to holding clean and fair elections, but that is a cost worth paying.”
“I will tell you in Cuyahoga county in 2008, 56 percent of the early in person voting were by African-Americans. So, you tell me what is going on here. Call it what it is,” Turner added. “…My Republican colleagues are stuck on stupid and dazzled by dumb.”
And the Clevelander with a fixation on Viagra rears her head again. Recall this one?
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/3rd-female-lawmaker-targets-viagra-in-response-to-antiabortion-laws/
I am from Ohio, and I know it is both a state law, and part of federal labor law, that they must give you unpaid time off for voting. In my employer’s absence reporting system, there is an option to call in late or sick for civic duties/ voting, so that all employees have the opportunity to vote. And if you want to vote early, vote absentee. Ever since I have turned 18, I have used Absentee ballots each election.
Nina Turner: Living proof that borderline insanity no longer bars one from a successful career in Ohio Democratic politics.
Is this still a great country or what?
So the people most likely to be within walking distance of their polling station are least able to get to there?
Pull the other one — it’s got bells on.
– and MSNBC doesn’t book guests, just casts a wide net.
Hmmm. I didn’t know Obama was secretly Jim Crowe. Black names: Barack Hussein Obama, Barry Sotero; White name: Jim Crowe. It must be so. He’s been spending an inordinate amount of time in Ohio and Florida. PA is next.
Ms. Turner’s rant is par-for-the-course at MSNBC where “Lean forward” is usually followed by “and leap Left.”
I am reminded daily that we have entered the “post-partisan, post-racial” Orwellian Age of Obama.
But there’s a silver lining to every dark cloud (no racial connotation intended): By own informal observations force me to conclude that Barack Obama is doing a magnificient job of eradicating the White Liberal Guilt Complex. One less card to play, eh, Dear Leader?
I wonder if this Ohio Dem realizes that it was Democrats who started the Jim Crow laws and did a lot of other things to prevent minorities from voting for Republicans in the South.
And who knew that Florida was North?
Must be part of those extra 7 states that only O’Bambi knows about.
If the Democrats were not continuously trying to steal elections by voting fraud, voter ID laws would not be necessary.