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| 2009-08-14 |
| Investors Business Daily Rep. Gene Green has voted against bills that require people to present a photo ID before they vote. But don't show up at one of his public gatherings without a driver's license. You won't get in. On his Web site, Green, a Democrat who represents working-class Houstonians, says that "due to a coordinated effort to disrupt our town hall meetings, we will be restricting further attendance to residents of the 29th congressional district and verifying residency by requiring photo identification." Green's position isn't wholly unreasonable, particularly when crowds are too big for the venues in which meetings are held. In that case, constituents should be given priority. But by requiring attendees to produce a photo ID, he has exposed himself as inconsistent at best and hypocritical at worst.... Green isn't the only lawmaker trying to duck the hard questions about health care revision bills from voters fed up with an imperial federal government. Some congressmen are holding telephone town halls, while others have canceled public meetings altogether. And at least one, Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-Mo., has been charged with packing a town hall meeting with union members — his real constituency? — and locking out more than 1,000 voters. Perhaps the most creative dodge was the one by Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who, like Green, represents Houston. While Tracy Miller was voicing her concern at a town hall meeting Tuesday that government-run health care "cannot happen without encroaching on someone else's civil liberty," Jackson Lee decided to take a call on her cell phone. Miller said Jackson Lee also answered her phone while two others were asking questions.... |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #2 This is an opportunity. Don't waste it. The Donks are rattled. Time for the cross aisle Trunks to take this and explain to their 'brothers' that to protect their own interests in 2010, they need to extend the practice to the polling stations. They don't want mobs of old people who could be from another district coming into theirs and stealing the election from them. Act. Act now. Heh. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-08-14 09:28 |
| #1 No I.D. needed to vote however. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-08-14 08:56 |