Clear Channel's new "Voting is a right. Not a crime!" billboards are going up, replacing the scary anonymous ones that equated voting with a possible prison sentence. Cleveland Councilwoman Phyllis Cleveland tweeted this picture from the scene today.
You're in Easy Mode. If you prefer, you can use XHTML Mode instead. |
Video: GOP brings anti-science perspectives to war on women
Video: Plan presented to wrest control of ATF director from gun lobby
Video: Sister Helen Prejean on her influential activism against the death penalty
Video: Call him what you like, but don't mess with American Samoa
Video: Michael Hastings, fearless
Video: Tonight’s show
Video: McDonnell, awash in scandal, sees conservative credibility eroded
Leave a Comment:
FINALLY!
What a crock. Voting is only a right for citizens. Voter fraud is still a crime.
Apparently the left thinks minorities aren't smart enough to understand the distinction. That's racist.
Voting is a RIGHT. Crime is Crime. Apparently you haven't noticed but the only cases of voter fraud are being committed by REPUBLICANS! Last I heard republicans were not 'left'. Time to get the car keys out of your ear hoss.
Apparently you still haven't figured out that voting is a right ONLY for citizens. Voting as a non-citizen is a crime. Why is this a difficult concept?
Question: if ID isn't required to vote, how would you know if a vote is valid or not? It certainly looks like the left is interested in quantity not quality.
You can not name one state that does not require an ID to vote , just more gop limbaugh hype from the weak minded thought challenged
yes, voter fraud is a crime. but the fraud numbers the gop wants you to believe in have been GREATLY exaggerated. voter fraud doesnt happen as often as they want you to believe.
I can name 1 state that doesn't require an I.D. to vote: Massachusetts
They haven't asked me for an I.D. for many years now, so anyone can go there and say their anyone!
Nice!
Great!
About time!
The power of the people can make things happen. Thanks to color for change and all those who made these billboards come down.
There is an ugly sign I see from Interstate 25 in Los Lunas, NM put up by a business. It is a sign insulting Obama and those who vote for him. I wonder if they know they cut out over 50% of their possible business, because of those they turn away. The power of the voter. Two places your politics don't belong, religion and business.
Glad to see this has happened!
It's time to rock-n-roll, people. VOTE VOTE VOTE
I already voted. I walked over to the courthouse across from work and voted on Friday. I know people who like to wait until election day
Check the voting machines that romney and family bought for a lot of the swing states. Verify the accurate before the elections. Republican are cheaters. These machines to my understanding can't be verified. Rachel please do a story on this!!!!
Add that to my list of shady deals going on.What frightens me is the cunning malevolent planning that infects the mind of the GOP. This plan has been in the works for along time. Democrats have been caught way behind the 8 ball on this. I needs to be covered the Rachel way, to let the public know the guy you are of thinking of elect is working very hard to steal the election and all his GOP buddies at are at it to and Karl Rove is funding it.
Colorado.... another game
Yes how can we get her to do a piece on this. It is outlandish that they can do this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OqPyjueYf4
Still want to know who put the old one's up..and...are they in jail??? if not, why not?
"Voting is a Right, Not a Crime!"
Hope these were put up in time...
Know who was to blame?
Clear Channel's owned by Bain!
They ought to be drowned in their slime!
Great, those on the left now want free speech criminalized, not unexpected.
Now all we have to do is figure out how to keep Tagg's hands out of our voting machines.
This also happened too. A major cable provider in Ohio is offering the factually inaccurate, right-wing conspiracy film Obama 2016 for free to call it's cable subscribers in 50 Ohio cities and 10 counties.. The move comes just days after the Armstrong’s Chairman of the Board donated tens of thousands of dollars to the Romney campaign and the Republican National Committee.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/10/23/1078081/major-cable-provider-in-ohio-offering-anti-obama-film-for-free/
Now all we need to do is keep Tagg's fingers out of our voting machines
Did the governor take out Tagg Romney's voting machines yet?
as a veteran who spilled blood for this country I find it deplorable for anyone to stand in the way of anyone exerciseing their right to vote.....it is the one thing that separates us from third world nations.....Vote, no matter what it takes or how far you have to go...get to wherever it is you vote and do it..
Thank you for your service and sacrifice!
Thank you for your service parchedgoose. It is a shame that people within this country undermine free voting. If those same people weren't cowards, they might have spent some time in a similar danger zone as you have. That would have changed their corrupted attitudes.
Posted this on my FB page yesterday:
Of course lying and "puffing" are not new to politics; but Romney/Ryan seem to have taken them to entirely new levels. I continue to marvel at how many of our fellow citizens seem so misinformed, uninformed, underinformed and, yes, dense. Everytime I see a "Support Our Troops" ribbon stuck on a bumper or rear window, I think to myself that the best way we can demostrate that support is by reading and listening and researching so that we can recognize the BS when it pours from the mouths of our elected leaders, political writers and television pundits. While THEY claim THEY want THEIR country back, THEY are actually giving it away, one vote at a time, one bill at a time, one district at a time and one judicial appointment at a time. If we lose this nation, it will not be because Chinese soldiers stormed our shores. It will be because we chose to indoctrinate our children in lieu of educating them ... chose to believe instead of question and chose to instill fear instead of hope. The biggest sin in any democracy is to NOT vote.
We need people to make calls getting people out to the polls and making them feel comfortable voting. Believe it or not, calling works. If turnout is low, Romney wins. The closer we get to all registered voters getting to the polls, the more likely that Obama will win.
barackobama.com has info on how to make calls from home or how to find a local office.
Think about how scary it will be to have Romney as the President? Ok now realize you CAN prevent it if you do something now.
I know you are busy - so am I. I still call 8-10 hours a week and I feel better knowing I'm making a difference. Please consider helping.
Having worked on Campaigns, no robo call, TV add can take the place of passionate citizen fighting for ideals and their candidate. It was an experience that I loved and it was incredibly empowering. One doesn't feel so cheated. Romney can't run from his record if you let the voter know, and in this game with buying the airwaves is not the most important voice
What scares me...if we know about so many different ways they are trying to suppress our vote, what DONT we know...criminals!
Can someone fact check the connection of Romney funders and H.I.G. co. which operates the voting machines and their software in Ohio and Colorado?( H.I.G. board members have alleged ties to Bain Capital) Are the republicans attempting to steal the election?
Think Progress did the fact checking and found the story to be bogus...
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/10/22/1059171/why-romney-isnt-rigging-the-voting-machines/
just saying...
I found these links extremely informative and beyond scary.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/10/20/romney-family-investment-ties-to-voting-machine-company-that-could-decide-the-election-causes-concern/
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12204-does-the-romney-family-now-own-your-e-vote
There is a blatant conflict of interest -- basically, the ownership lineage, history, etc. boils down to 2 people that clearly have ownership rights with the voter machines: Romney and his son Tagg. This is beyond offensive and borders on illegal activity. Where are the Feds ????
Check out www.bradblog.com. They have 10 years of reporting on this. The TP article was on them and was bogus, and he explains why, with facts, and the Forbes and Truthout article linked below.
We better get to the polls. Mitt is winning....
It's what should have ALWAYS been there. People should feel good about voting, not be frightened.
Now, get to marking your ballots! (please)
Obama helped Ohio and he needs help and Sherrod Brown and other Dems in congress that can help Obama get things done.
Finally something is being done, But how much damage has been inflicted on the unsuspecting communities. What is The D.O.J doing with all these Fraudulent Voter suppressing Issues.
To bad all those lovely voting machines in Ohio are owned by a company that has direct links/ownership by the Romneys. They'll just change those votes anyway.
Apparently Think Progress disagrees with you...
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/10/22/1059171/why-romney-isnt-rigging-the-voting-machines/
just saying...
Thank god you are talking about this. The black ops operation by Karl Rove and Nathan Sproule with the latest activities of man be arrested in Virginia for throwing out registration forms who works for one of operations Nathan has set up across the country. There are direct links back to the incorporation form having the same address as Karl Rove and a legal firm that has direct connections to Bush and 2004 election. I also heard that a UN team has been called in. who monitors international elections.They arrived on October 8 which 8 civil rights group requested including the NNCP and ACLU. They will have monitors in 44 states with particular emphasis on swing states.
They have the authority to look at the entire election process. They are already monitoring media, and will be looking at campaign financing, and have the right to look into black ops and and the computer data.
If the registration is so high why is the Republicans? With all those numbers it seems fishy!
When are these "people" going to be called on the carpet by the press with a public display of villainous activities. Just show the old sign, the new sigm=n, the picture of the Republican employee even being accused of such a thing should be the entire nation talking at kitchen tables and water coolers about what kind of thug would do such a despicable thing.
This is your brain on Limpy, too much Faux, Becki and O'Really. You are driven to think you're a "team player" for denying people to vote, the MAIN civil right/duty in a free nation.
Its frighting! And he is even in the polls because the media are enabling a post truth campaign. The vote is the only thing a citizen has to have ANY influence.
The manipulation in Colorado by Gessler ...how is he not being indicted or at least investigated. Thats way more than just-- their voting process isn't working, that could swing the election. Where are the challenges to it? Our side sitting on their hands again?
Right On ! It's been a long time coming!!!!
The blatant attempt to disenfrancise voters is so scary. Tagg and his machines, voter ID laws, which some of their leaders is being done to hand the republicans a victory, taking people off the roles who have been voting for years, if the justice department does not wake up, this really is the end of democracy and the start of oligarchy
that was supposed to be which some of their leaders admit....
Why are citizens up in the street demonstrating, and the media not telling this story instead of running a horse race. The Media is guilty of treason in their dictating who should hold the office of president and all the rest of the government. This is not a personality or beauty talent show.