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  • Reply to: Only People Can Vote—Only People Should Finance Campaigns, within Limits   12 years 6 months ago
    This article is right on. Corporations are not people. American democracy is eroding due to big money influence in elections.
  • Reply to: About ALEC Exposed   12 years 6 months ago
    Yeah....you really need to protect yourself from a kid armed with ice tea and skittles.
  • Reply to: ALEC Ratified the NRA-Conceived Law That May Protect Trayvon Martin's Killer   12 years 6 months ago
    I appreciate your thorough review of the article. Those numbers come from Judge Richard Flanagan's order in the Dane County Circuit Court, and reflect mixed data available for those possessing driver's licenses and IDs: http://media.jsonline.com/documents/Voter+ID+injunction.pdf Flanagan notes that evidence suggests 221,975 voters do not have a driver's license or ID. That number is based upon a 2002 study, reduced by exclusions for felony convictions and people who are non-citizens. Around 80 percent of Wisconsinites have a driver's license, but only 45% of African-American males and 51% of African-American females possess a license, and for Latinos, 54% of males and 41% of females have a license. The study was not able to estimate how many individuals in those populations did not have a driver's license but did have an ID. According to the study, 23% of Wisconsinites age 65 and older (approximately 177,399 individuals) have neither a license nor a photo ID. The study is here: http://www.brennancenter.org/page/-/d/download_file_50902.pdf
  • Reply to: ALEC Ratified the NRA-Conceived Law That May Protect Trayvon Martin's Killer   12 years 6 months ago
    Since when, and by whom? please give specifics.
  • Reply to: ALEC Ratified the NRA-Conceived Law That May Protect Trayvon Martin's Killer   12 years 6 months ago
    You mentioned the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments but forgot the Second Amendment which is just as important. As I said in my first post. Zimmerman should be prosecuted for instigating the confrontation. What he did does not constitute a "stand your ground" scenario which I firmly believe in.

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