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madamesilverspurs

(15,782 posts)
Mon Apr 16, 2012, 12:27 AM Apr 2012

For reals?

Just got off the phone with a family member in Washington State where they just had their caucuses. Apparently, the republicans attending caucus had to pay $5 and provide a photo ID in order to participate.

Mom, who's 92, quit driving years ago and would have had to pay upwards of $35 to get a photo ID to replace that long-expired driver license, just to attend a caucus for the party she's been an active member of for 70 years. Good thing she officially became an independent a couple of weeks ago.

Craziness.

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freshwest

(53,661 posts)
1. Every time the GOP loses in WA, they claim it's from 'illegal aliens voting for Democrats.'
Mon Apr 16, 2012, 12:37 AM
Apr 2012

Their hate radio spews that just before every election and gets the lemmings worked into a lather over it. I've heard them exhort them to go into downtown Seattle and 'see how the Democrats are running all around, signing up Mexican immigrants.'

Then when they lose because their policies stink, they scream, 'See, the Mexicans did it.' Weirdly enough, there are hardly any Mexicans in WA. So, it's got to be witchcraft. Or space aliens. Or maybe Canadians.

So it stands to reason they'd be big on checking ID, to make sure none of those illegal 'alien' voting blocks interfered with them getting the best candidates that the Koch brothers and Karl Rove could buy.

And did I mention, all their candidates suck? They do.

 

saras

(6,670 posts)
2. You're too generous.
Mon Apr 16, 2012, 02:42 AM
Apr 2012

Up north of Seattle, many of us are Scandinavians. My theory is that we're jealous. We see what Scandinavia's become, and where America ended up, and it looks like we, or our ancestors, fucked up big-time. We should have stayed home. And we're pissed. We have this uptight little Dutch town up north that just allowed dancing and drinking in the same establishment recently, when we could have had Amsterdam. Damn.



But it doesn't work. Racism is so stupid that you can't satirize it. I could quote Brian Eno's "Seven Deadly Finns" here and someone on the right is going to take me seriously and bring up black metal, and someone on the left is going to accuse me of trying to insidiously promote racism in spite of my apparent denial.

BTW if I see the word 'insidious' again this decade, I'm going to projectile vomit something out of a Cannibal Corpse album. Leave it to Senator McCarthy.

Some locals have their own theories... http://www.nwcitizen.com/entry/bellingham-its-the-mercury1

Oh, and BTW, north of Everett, and east of the mountains, there are quite a number of legal and permanent residents and citizens as well as immigrants of Hispanic background. It's been that way for a long time. Only southwest Washington and the far West have no significant number of people of Mexican descent.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
3. Hum, interesting perspective. I was commenting on hate radio heard in Seattle. I'm aware of the
Mon Apr 16, 2012, 03:01 AM
Apr 2012

Long stading Hispanic communities of other areas. I'm not concerned about any ethnic group, but the GOP thrives on that kind of crap in the air. And did I mention, that all their candidates generally suck?

Chief among them Rossi, Zarelli, McKenna, and there are some other gems of Republican hypocrisy I could bring up, but no use having nightmares...

Thanks for the links, I'll bookmark this thread for tomorrow...

 

saras

(6,670 posts)
4. Gak! McKenna is a Tea Partier.. Rossi is... I can't say it on DU.
Thu Apr 19, 2012, 12:08 AM
Apr 2012

There is a fair list of things Rossi should be in prison for.

But this corner had both the Ku Klux Klan and the Wobblies at the same time. It's been strange for a LONG time.

...or put it this way. Glenn Beck and Jimi Hendrix were born only about thirty miles apart. So much for geography.

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