Oh geez, how could I have forgotten about the “nipple bill”???
In Texas, you can order online and have it shipped by a third party. They have galleries where you can look at the cars, but the employees aren’t allowed to talk about how to buy one.
Meanwhile, I am shocked–SHOCKED–that Asheville was singled out by the GOP for punitive measures.
I actually don’t think this is all that outrageous. The resident population of many small towns with a university is sometimes dwarfed by the size of the student population that skews all election results.
And while I’m not in favor of disenfranchising students, they have no ties to the college community on any type of permanent basis: They are simply there to get an education and then leave. The permanent residents should have more of a voice in what they have to live with forever instead of bowing to the will of a fresh crop of transients every four years. Let the students vote in their home towns where they do have a vested interest in election results.
If you’re arguing that students shouldn’t be permitted to be legal residents of the places where they go to school, then make that argument.
If you’re arguing that students who are legally entitled to declare the place where they go to school as their legal residence should be somehow discouraged from doing so, on the other hand, you’re just a common or garden vote disenfranchiser.
I don’t know how I would frame it, but I would use a definition of residency as a place in which you intend to stay indefinitely. If I move to Florida with the intent to stay there indefinitely, then I am a resident of Florida, even if I move out six months later.
Likewise, if I have a work contract to stay in Florida for 5 years, but then intended to return back to West Virginia, I remain a West Virginia resident for those 5 years.
Similarly, unless the student intends to stay in the community after graduation, he or she shouldn’t vote there, but vote in the place where he or she has the most concrete ties: the home town.
I don’t see how this is disenfranchisement in any shape or form. If my proposal passed, every student would still be able to vote
If you mean to suggest that you should not be allowed to vote in Florida for those 5 years, you are probably the only person in America who thinks that.
While I visited my hometown after I started college, I never returned to live there longer than a month or so (summer vacation). Hell, I haven’t even been back there since I got my current job over six years ago. There are also kids who, for whatever reason, want no further ties with their hometown. I don’t see anything wrong with college kids voting locally…if they’re going to college full-time, the place where they’re living is their community.
IIUIC yup, see Symm v. United States,
CMC fnord!
Neither the state of Florida, nor the state of West Virginia, nor the Federal government agree with you, under basically any circumstance.
Waitaminnit, how is that proof-of-residency? Lots of people own property they rarely if ever visit.
This is a pretty serious violation of the fourteenth amendment rights of transients. There are people who don’t live in a permanent place, and who have no intention of doing so; your suggestion disenfranchises them.
The folks who live in a college town make a choice to do so. If they’re living there for four years, then they’re having to deal with decisions made by people who’ve lived there a lot longer; they didn’t get a say in those decisions. If the majority of the town comprises college kids, it only makes sense to have those decisions at least made by a similar demographic. Otherwise you get this weird oligarchy going on in which a small minority of people (i.e., a majority of the minority of residents who are “permanent” by whatever definition you use) make the decisions for everyone. That’s obviously unfair.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/05/19/2904139/nc-general-assembly-police-defend.html
Demonstrations in NC.
An 83 year old retired minister was arrested for merely observing.
YouTube:
Interestingly (for me, anyway), Vernon Tyson is the dad of Timothy Tyson, author of “Blood Done Sign My Name,” a fantastic nonfiction account of a murder that sparked a civil rights movement in rural North Carolina. His dad worked for racial justice way back when, and today is continuing to fight against the same thugs in power.
As the old Southern grandmas would say, Bless their* li’l hearts.
*“Their” being the people who arrested Rev. Tyson
Li’l hearts indeed.
Speaking of Jesse Helms, he got his start doing TV editorials for a Raleigh station. Think Floyd Turbo (the Carson character) Of course his views were far right.
What’s funny now is the very same station runs far left editorials but they only do it on the radio version of their 6 o’clock news (they run the audio of the news on a radio station they also own).
Aaaaaaaand now the General Assembly in Its Infinite Wisdom is trying to bully Asheville into giving up its lawsuit over the water [DEL]theft[/DEL] transfer
Emails reveal state reps trying to settle Asheville water lawsuit, may change city elections
There aren’t enough :smack:s in the world.
Yep. The state legislature has taken to heart the adage “All’s fair in love and war,” and by “war” they mean “governing.” If it’s legal, they reason, we may as well.
I’m desperately hoping that their overreach comes back to bite them in 2014. But honestly, Rest of the Country, I think it’s up to you. We’ve been targeted by national conservatives for a makeover, and we got massive funding by local and national billionaires. If national Democrats keep trying to write the South off as a Lost Cause, we’re doomed to continued rule by these unapologetic plutocrats. We need help from national Democrats to take the state back from those who have targeted us.
Okay, maybe it’s a bit melodramatic. But after MOffitt’s most recent “Nice electoral system you got there, shame if anything happened to it” maneuvering, it doesn’t seem so.
Edit: Fun fact, that article’s written by a friend of mine!