AP reports that: Foes and supporters of same-sex marriage are gearing up for five
costly and bruising statewide showdowns in the coming months on an issue
that evenly divides Americans.
It’s an election year subplot sure
to stir up heated emotions — even beyond the confines of North
Carolina, Minnesota, Maryland, Maine and Washington state. National
advocacy groups will be deeply engaged, and advertising is likely to
surface from each side that outrages the other.
Just weeks before the deadline for state ballot initiatives, the effort
to put a marijuana legalization measure before voters in the general
election is in disarray as the federal government cracks down on medical
cannabis and activists are divided on their goals. Full story here.
I will be in New York this week to appear on the GBTV show B.S. of A., which airs Thursday night. I will be talking about Injustice, the DOJ and more.
Video here from Fox News. Racism “under new management.”
When your congressional district is infested with irregularities, and you have people documenting them for the first time, scream “voter intimidation” and accuse people of racism. Shameful behavior.
From Town Hall:
“Engelbrecht’s volunteers ultimately submitted 800 signed affidavits outlining problems they encountered, including having overheard some election judges telling people who they should and should not vote for. . . .
The group began doing research into the abnormalities in Jackson Lee’s district. They took the first 3,800 registrations of the flagged 19,596 homes with six or more registrants and began to investigate further. The group visited addresses and scoured property tax records. The group found many of the addresses were vacant lots or business addresses. Thirty-nine were registered at businesses and 97 of the addresses were nonexistent. One hundred six of the registrations revealed the same registrant registered more than once, and 207 of the addresses turned out to be vacant lots.’
Maybe DOJ will finally respond to True the Vote’s October 2010 letter describing potential Section 8 violations in Sheila Jackson Lee’s district. Maybe not. One thing is for sure, when a Republican Attorney General takes over, serious action will be necessary to fix this abdication of responsibility by current Justice Department employees.
The “New Jim Crow” is a book by Michelle Alexander. This three-way forum at Front Page takes a look at it, and it’s rancid conclusions about the American criminal justice system. “The Left resurrects Jim Crow so frequently to advance unpopular ideas, that it has lost all meaning. Alexander’s book takes this to a whole new, and absurd, level. She argues, in short, that the criminal justice system is a racial segregation scheme, where blacks are now warehoused in prisons instead of on plantations. She provides a dangerous intellectual framework for dismantling perhaps the last mighty keep of our culture – the notion that evil and crime carry consequences. . . . . One unintended consequence of Alexander (and her fellow travelers) trotting out “Jim Crow” so regularly is that it diminishes the evil of Jim Crow. Reasonable people simply do not believe that people being in prison for committing crimes compares with the political disenfranchisement of the black minority and de jure segregation across the South.”
An op-ed in today’s Philly Inquirer from a Philadelphia Bar member upset the Philadelphia Bar has injected themselves into the voter ID debate.
The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board has agreed
to investigate complaints against two groups supporting the
constitutional amendment that would ban same sex marriage. The complaints were filed
by Common Cause last month, and allege Minnesota for Marriage and the
Minnesota Family Council broke Minnesota’s disclosure laws. In the
complaint filed against Minnesota for Marriage, Common Cause executive
director Mike Dean wrote, “MFM filed a false report with the Campaign
Finance and Public Disclosure Board by not itemizing and disclosing the
names of all individuals who contributed more than $100 to MFM’s
campaign in support of the Marriage Amendment.”
…(Minnesota Family Council CEO) Helmberger sent an email to supporters earlier this week with the
subject line, “They want me in jail” and asked for financial support to
defend the organization against what he called “this baseless attack.” …
Helmberger told his supporters “Let me state emphatically: even
though new campaign finance regulations exceed the requirements of the
law and violate our Constitutional rights, I have followed them to a
“T.”
Full story here.
The Federal Election Commission held a hearing Wednesday on a proposed
rule intended to nix and alter regulations that conflict with the 2010 Citizens United decision. ….The proposed FEC rule, “Independent Expenditures and Electioneering
Communications by Corporations and Labor Unions,” had been called a
“housekeeping measure” by campaign finance attorneys.
But
panelists pushed the commission to implement the Citizens United changes
clearly and leniently for groups because “now the presumption is
freedom.”
“The regulations as they currently exist were based upon the idea that
there was a corporate prohibition, and the FEC was then involved in the
enterprise of implementing certain exceptions,” said James Bopp Jr. of
the James Madison Center for Free Speech.
“Well now of course that has been reversed 180 degrees. Now the presumption is freedom,” he said. full story at the link
