Tea party leader: Restricting vote to property owners ‘makes a lot of sense’

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What next from the Tea Party? Only educated, white males can vote? Ignore at your own risk.

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/