New Orleans An lead article in the Sunday New York Times was a wan effort to footnote the partisan efforts of Republicans controlling an increasing number of state legislatures to suppress the ability and access to voting for lower income citizens, elderly, infirm, and others without current picture identifications. There was a weakly researched editorial …
Category: Voting Rights
Qualifying Parties via Internet
New Orleans In a piece about the feinting being done by billionaire NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Matt Bai in the New York Times correctly pointed out that not only money but “ballot access” was a huge impediment to alternative political parties and candidacies. A throwaway comment though got me thinking when he mentioned that qualifying …
Puppy Love for the Big Dawg, Clinton
Phoenix I’m pretty sure either Mexico billionaire Carlos Slim didn’t make his contribution this year to the Clinton Foundation Global Initiative and decided to take it out in trade, or the New York Times is so desperate to find something upbeat for the Demos about the midterm elections that they had to come up with …