Voter ID offered free in every Alabama county



Voters who don’t have a valid photo ID to use in Alabama’s elections can get one free at county board of registrars’ offices.


Alabama’s chief election official, Secretary of State Jim Bennett, said Monday that registrars’ offices in every county will be offering the free IDs, starting this week. The offices are open during regular courthouse hours, he said.


In addition, the required photo IDs are available in the secretary of state’s office in the Capitol and, starting March 17, from vans that will be visiting all 67 counties…

“Voters, of course, ought to be who they claim to be,” the Republican secretary of state said.


“The Politicization of the IRS”

George Will Column: The most intrusive and potentially most punitive federal agency has been politicized; the IRS has become an appendage of Barack Obama’s party. Furthermore, congruent with exhortations from some congressional Democrats, it is intensifying its efforts to suffocate groups critical of progressives, by delaying what once was the swift, routine granting of tax-exempt status.

NC Democratic Party is broke, selling assets and letting staff go

WRAL North Carolina:  An Executive Council member who attended Sunday’s meeting said Voller told members the party is “broke,” with only $60,000 in the bank. According to the member, Voller said he would have let some staffers go and is even evaluating whether the party can afford to keep the Goodwin House, its historic headquarters near the Capitol in downtown Raleigh.  Update on the potential selling of their historic headquarters due to anemic fundraising.  

LULAC Race Campaign Helps Wall Street Profit on Shortsale

The ethical depravity of the civil rights industry never fails to shock you.  This New York Times article describes how LULAC helped one Wall Street mogul hassle HerbalLife in order to help a donor make money on short selling HerbalLife.


“To pressure state and federal regulators to investigate Herbalife, an act that alone could cause its stock to dive, his team has helped organize protests, news conferences and letter-writing campaigns in California, Nevada, Connecticut, New York and Illinois, although several of the people who signed the letters to state and federal officials say they do not remember sending them, an investigation by The New York Times has found.


His team has also paid civil rights organizations at least $130,000 to join his effort by helping him collect the names of people who claimed they were victimized by Herbalife in order to send the leads to regulators, the investigation found. Mr. Ackman’s team also provided the money used by some of these individuals to travel to Washington to participate in a rally against Herbalife last month.”

“Dwindling number of House members in ‘crossover’ seats”

Detroit Free Press: They are an endangered species in Congress and this is hunting season: A handful of Republicans holding House seats in districts that President Obama won in 2012, and Democrats representing districts that Mitt Romney won, are top targets for both political parties.  Crossover congressional districts are at a 90-year low and set to dwindle further in November, a sign of increased partisanship among voters and an indication of bleak prospects for a Democratic return to the House majority this decade.

Wash Post: “Adegbile debacle will have impact on mid-terms”

The Washington Post anticipates the tin ear nomination of Adegbile will have a negative impact on Democrats in the mid-term elections.  

You’re going to hear a lot more about Debo Adegbile before the 2014 midterm elections. And that’s a bad thing for Democrats trying desperately to hold on to their Senate majority.

Adegbile, President Obama’s choice to run the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, watched his confirmation to that post — once assumed to be likely — crumble in the matter of a few hours this past week. 

…Even more politically problematic than the Democratic defections is the fact that a number of vulnerable Democratic senators up for reelection in November voted for Adegbile — and have nothing to show for it. They include Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu, North Carolina’s Kay Hagan and Alaska’s Mark Begich, who went out on a limb for their side only to see it sawed off behind them. “It’s a 30-second ad that writes itself,” lamented one Democratic aide about the vote.

Me and Rep. Sensenbrenner on WISN-AM Milwaukee

I was on Milwaukee’s blowtorch WISN last Friday to discuss the Voting Rights Act and the proposed amendments to give Eric Holder’s Justice Department renewed power over state elections.  Vicki had tried to get Mr. Sensenbrenner and I on at the same time but that didn’t happen.  Instead, I appeared and the audio is here. (picks up around minute 13).  Vicki had a state senator scheduled after me but got an unscheduled call from Rep. Sensenbrenner.  Unfortunately it doesn’t make the best listening as two folks are talking at the same time for much of the interview, but the audio is here.

Breitbart covers the whole exchange here.