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Tea party leader: Restricting vote to property owners ‘makes a lot of sense’
November 30, 2010 at 7:22 pm
What next from the Tea Party? Only educated, white males can vote? Ignore at your own risk.
Quote:Tea party leader: Restricting vote to property owners ‘makes a lot of sense’
By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 -- 1:56 pm
100 0671 300x199 Tea party leader: Restricting vote to property owners makes a lot of senseTea Party Nation President Judson Phillips said denying the right to vote to those who do not own property "makes a lot of sense" during a weekly radio program.
"The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote," Phillips said. "It wasn't you were just a citizen and you got to vote."
"Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today," he continued. "But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community."
"If you're not a property owner, you know, I'm sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners."
Approximately 33% of Americans are renters, according to the National Multi-Housing Council.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/denyi...tion-pres/
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RE: Tea party leader: Restricting vote to property owners ‘makes a lot of sense’
November 30, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Well this is one aspect of the Tea Party I don't agree with.
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RE: Tea party leader: Restricting vote to property owners ‘makes a lot of sense’
November 30, 2010 at 10:47 pm
(November 30, 2010 at 7:44 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Well this is one aspect of the Tea Party I don't agree with.
Now that they've won a few seats in DC we'll see if this is a glitch or if there's going to be more.
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RE: Tea party leader: Restricting vote to property owners ‘makes a lot of sense’
November 30, 2010 at 11:12 pm
(November 30, 2010 at 7:44 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Well this is one aspect of the Tea Party I don't agree with.
Glad to hear that.
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RE: Tea party leader: Restricting vote to property owners ‘makes a lot of sense’
November 30, 2010 at 11:13 pm
Some of these tea party advocates make Dan Quayle seem like a genius.
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RE: Tea party leader: Restricting vote to property owners ‘makes a lot of sense’
November 30, 2010 at 11:16 pm
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(November 30, 2010 at 11:13 pm)orogenicman Wrote: Some of these tea party advocates make Dan Quayle seem like a genius. \
His shithead of a son was just elected to congress by the idiot fascist shits out here.
Mr. family values with his phony children and pornographic web site. Conservatives are despicable.
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RE: Tea party leader: Restricting vote to property owners ‘makes a lot of sense’
December 1, 2010 at 6:24 am
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33% are renters?
Um,something odd there
Quote:According to Voting and Registration Data - US Census 2008, the United States of America voter turnout was 58%.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_percentag...icans_vote
So much for all those homeowners having greater interest in the community.
Is being a moron a requirement for a tea partyist, or merely an advantage?
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RE: Tea party leader: Restricting vote to property owners ‘makes a lot of sense’
December 1, 2010 at 7:49 am
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(November 30, 2010 at 7:44 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Well this is one aspect of the Tea Party I don't agree with.
Try meeting some of their adherents here in the American South & I'll bet you'll find out a lot more that you don't like about them.
(November 30, 2010 at 7:22 pm)lilyannerose Wrote: Quote:"The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote," Phillips said. "It wasn't you were just a citizen and you got to vote."
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/denyi...tion-pres/
Most of the Founding Fathers were cool with slavery too, so we should totally go back to that, right?
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RE: Tea party leader: Restricting vote to property owners ‘makes a lot of sense’
December 1, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Disenfranchisement of non-property owners is punishable by summary execution. I'll enforce it.
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RE: Tea party leader: Restricting vote to property owners ‘makes a lot of sense’
December 1, 2010 at 2:30 pm
(November 30, 2010 at 7:22 pm)lilyannerose Wrote: What next from the Tea Party? Only educated, white males can vote? Ignore at your own risk.
Wow. I wish I could ignore it. Scary to think there are folks walking around in this country touting that type of dangerous talk. I wonder if this fellow is aware of how very mid-19th century, antebellum America that really sounds.
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