Sunday - April 02, 2006

Beavis & Butthead In New Orleans

I have two questions about this: (1) What church do these two “reverends” belong to? and (2) Why don’t they get real jobs and stop stirring up trouble for everyone? Nobody’s voting rights are being violated. All the displaced people have to do is pick up a ballot and mail it in.

If anything, the real fraud will be perpetrated by the large number of people who have no plans whatsoever to move back. But that doesn’t matter to Jesse and Al. All they ever seem to care about is getting their faces on TV and screaming “oppression” at the drop of a hat. They just will not shut up until they have extorted money from someone. I wonder who their victim will be this time ...

Jackson, Sharpton Rally for La. Voters
_{Sat Apr 1, 8:19 PM ET}

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hundreds of protesters led by the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton rallied Saturday, saying the city’s election plans will disenfranchise voters displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

The system of mail-in voting set up for the April 22 election for mayor and other positions in the city will make it difficult for voters living elsewhere to cast a ballot, Jackson and other activists said.

Black people, who made up 70 percent of New Orleans before Katrina hit, form a large majority of those still displaced.

“We want the Voting Rights Act,” Jackson said at a news conference before the rally. Black leaders have argued city elections could violate the landmark 1965 law designed to ensure voter equality.

The city election could have a broad effect nationwide, Sharpton said: “What happens in New Orleans will affect voting rights all over the United States.”

Jackson and other activists are demanding satellite polling places for displaced voters in cities outside New Orleans, and even outside Louisiana. Fewer than half of the city’s 460,000 residents have returned since the Aug. 29 storm flooded the city.

Activists also urged the release of updated lists of displaced voter addresses, a request the Federal Emergency Management Agency has denied, saying it would breach privacy. About 2,000 people attended the rally and march, police said.

- More on the Dynamic Duo here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/02/2006 at 05:59 AM   
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