Free For Me But Not For Thee
Oct 30th, 2005 at 7:05 am by Susie
The Republicans are all about protecting freedom of speech for corporations - as long as they’re for profit:
Last week’s partisan power play took the form of an amendment tacked onto a piece of legislation intended to increase regulatory oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage financing companies recently plagued by accounting scandals. The House bill included a sorely needed provision to create a fund for affordable housing, prompted by calls for federal aid to rebuild the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.
But to placate an ultraconservative group called the Republican Study Committee, an amendment was added that prohibits any nonprofit group from receiving any of the federal affordable-housing funds if it has conducted a voter registration campaign in the past year, even if it has used its own funds to do so.
This is not a poll tax; this is a poll ax. If this measure becomes law — the Senate has not yet acted on it — it will penalize countless organizations, including churches, that have run voter registration drives and also built high rises for the elderly and low-cost apartment complexes that accommodate store clerks, janitors and fast-food workers.
for the criminal party and chimpco business as usual…
That is so revealing of the GOP mindset: they DON’T WANT PEOPLE TO VOTE. Over and over their election efforts have turned on suppressing votes. What a rancid organization. They must hate living in a democracy.