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Wed Sep 19, 2012, 10:07 PM

Sponsor Of Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Defends Romney, Says ‘Lazy’ People Also Shouldn’t Vote

Source: ThinkProgress

As Pennsylvania’s strict voter ID law returns to the lower court for reconsideration, its original sponsor, Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-PA), told KDKA Radio Wednesday morning that his law will only disenfranchise “lazy” people, like the ones Mitt Romney was talking about in the leaked video of a private fundraiser.

When asked about the voter ID law’s disenfranchisement of the 750,000 Pennsylvanians who cannot get IDs, Metcalfe cited Romney’s offhand dismissal of the 47% of the country who will never “take personal responsibility and care for their lives” as proof that those people don’t deserve the right to vote:

HOST: Are you absolutely convinced…that the methods to implement this law are effective and will in fact make sure no legitimate voter will be disenfranchised?

METCALFE: I don’t believe any legitimate voter that actually wants to exercise that right and takes on the according responsiblity that goes with that right to secure their photo ID will be disenfranchised. As Mitt Romney said, 47% of the people that are living off the public dole, living off their neighbors’ hard work, and we have a lot of people out there that are too lazy to get up and get out there and get the ID they need. If individuals are too lazy, the state can’t fix that.


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Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/19/877981/sponsor-of-pennsylvania-voter-id-law-defends-romney-says-lazy-people-also-shouldnt-vote/



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Reply Sponsor Of Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Defends Romney, Says ‘Lazy’ People Also Shouldn’t Vote (Original post)
highplainsdem Sep 2012 OP
AlbertCat Sep 2012 #1
Rain Mcloud Sep 2012 #2
MichiganVote Sep 2012 #3
Did I Just Type This Sep 2012 #4
HomerRamone Sep 2012 #5
liberalmuse Sep 2012 #6
oswaldactedalone Sep 2012 #9
gopiscrap Sep 2012 #10
nolabear Sep 2012 #7
defacto7 Sep 2012 #8
alp227 Sep 2012 #11
Scuba Sep 2012 #13
sakabatou Sep 2012 #12
King_Klonopin Sep 2012 #14
animalcrackers Sep 2012 #15
CBHagman Sep 2012 #16
KamaAina Sep 2012 #17
wordpix Sep 2012 #18

Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 10:10 PM

1. If individuals are too lazy, the state can’t fix that.

Well, Deary, if they have the energy to REGISTER, that should be enough. It has been for a long time now.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 10:21 PM

2. It would seem Metcalfe chewed the paint off the lead pencils as a child.

Somewhere a village has his picture on their milk carton.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 10:24 PM

3. i don't know what has happened 2 this country...bad and sad

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 10:36 PM

4. Wow, only people with decent incomes should be allowed to vote?

 

The republican party is done.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 10:42 PM

5. When will these people suffer Marie Antoinette's fate? nt

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 10:46 PM

6. When did Republicans turn evil?

They've become cartoon villains.

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Response to liberalmuse (Reply #6)

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 01:00 AM

9. They turned evil

when am radio stations turned off the music and went to all talk formats. Limbaugh went national in '88 and the political discourse in the country has fallen off a cliff since. Hate radio does terrible things to a person's mind, and we see it with the clowns at the Rmoney fundraiser and his 47% concept.

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Response to oswaldactedalone (Reply #9)

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 02:00 AM

10. It started with that fucking asswipe Ronald Reagan

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 10:56 PM

7. Whistle up a dog, you get a dog.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2012, 11:02 PM

8. oooh, another prejudice catagory.....

People who are lazy! No they can't have rights either.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 02:03 AM

11. "living off the public dole, living off their neighbors' hard work..."

so does that mean Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein, Edward Liddy, and Ken Lewis have to give up their voting rights, too?

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Response to alp227 (Reply #11)

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 06:45 AM

13. Bingo.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 02:56 AM

12. Apparently, this guy hates the Constitution

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 06:46 AM

14. What an asshole

He thinks 47% of America doesn't work, is lazy and on the dole --

If you don't pay taxes, it's because you're lazy (not exploited by
a system that pays wages that can't meet basic needs)

AND -- he has essentially admitted that the true reason for these
laws is to see to it that "lazy people" (you know what this is code for)
don't vote because, as HE sees it, they don't deserve to vote.

Hey asshole, deserve's got nothin' to do with it.
Voting is a RIGHT.
As I see it, all racist assholes like you don't deserve to vote.

How many folks in the "Tea Party" fall below poverty level ???!!!!!!

This insane talking point that poor people should be forced
to pay federal income tax (so that the rich can be taxed LESS)
is PURE EVIL and should be called out as such.

I sure hope there is a Hell for these guys.....

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 02:34 PM

15. what a douche

Im just suprised how little attention all this rigging is getting in the media

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 02:56 PM

16. The Washington Post had an article the other day recounting how an applicant had to take...

...a day off work to get her photo ID, and she was a homeowner who'd held the same job for decades.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/for-some-pennsylvanians-voter-id-quest-is-an-ordeal/2012/09/16/758d4f52-0027-11e2-b260-32f4a8db9b7e_story.html

The governor estimated that 99 percent of the state’s 8.3 million voters already had an acceptable PennDOT ID, and other Republicans questioned how any responsible grown-up wouldn’t already have the right card, in a society where photo ID is required to use a credit card or buy alcohol or cash a check.

Cheryl Ann Moore was such a grown-up.

She owns her home, a small rowhouse in South Philadelphia. She’s held the same job for 24 years, as a custodian at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where she works the 4-a.m.-to-noon shift. To get there, she takes the bus in the middle of the night. She doesn’t have a driver’s license, like thousands of working people in a city with one of the lowest rates of car ownership in the country.


Now let's vote out those who have put this burden on people who have the right to vote.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 03:05 PM

17. Well, at least he isn't a racist

he would've said "shiftless", too.

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 03:07 PM

18. Lazy people like Tax Dodge Mitt who hasn't worked since he was gov?

Just wondering

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