Son of a Motherless Goat!
I am ready to put something on Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that even Ajax won’t take off.
The courts have said that a voter in Texas should not have to have two IDs, a set of fingerprints, and their mother to swear to their birth in order to vote. And they also said that Texas has to inform and educate voters of the “relaxed ID laws.”
Holy crap. Look at this.
The federal government is accusing Texas of circulating “inaccurate or misleading information” to poll workers and would-be voters about relaxed identification requirements for the November elections.
Oh wait, Texas would try to mislead voters? Would a one legged duck swim in a circle? Would a 50 pound sack of flour make a big biscuit?
Oh hell, yeah.
U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos ruled last month that Texas has to spend $2.5 million to re-educate the public about the new voting standards. Our Governor and Attorney General argue that they don’t have to tell us how they’re going to spend that money. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t trust Bevis and Butthead to know how to effectively communicate in any minority community.
Then, to add stupid to bean dip dumb, they lie in the educational materials. The tougher restrictions on voter ID is called. Senate Bill 14.
Ramos ordered Texas to educate voters about “the opportunity for voters who do not possess SB 14 ID and cannot reasonably obtain it to cast a regular ballot.”
But, Texas changes the language in the educational program to strip the word “reasonably” from the order. Honey, dammit, both Abbott and Paxton are lawyers and they knew exactly what they were doing.
“That standard is incorrect and far harsher than the Court-ordered standard it would displace,” the Justices Department argues. “By recasting the Court’s language, Texas has narrowed dramatically the scope of voters protected by the Court’s Order.”
Texas refuses to change the language, the filing states, and the state officials believe they are following the court order.
They are damned and determined to keep people from voting in Texas.
There’s a hearing on Monday.
Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.
Given the rapid DOJ response somebody must have been expecting Beavis & ButtNumb to do this. Now, if only the judge would put them in the cooler for contempt until their minions do it right.
1And this surprises you? These are the scum of the earth, corrupt bastichs whose only goal in life is getting rich in state office. If they died from soul cancer, I know where they’d go.
2Why in the seven hells isn’t that conniving little crooked faced so n so Paxton in JAIL already?? The wheels of justice need a turbocharger dammit!!
3Fair voting for Republicans? What, you wouldn’t want them to lose elections and their jobs would you? Especially since they hate Government so much.
4I find out that alterring a legal agreement is a felony, even though I didn’t alter the actual agreement. The state did.
5The SOS website includes “reasonable.” The goobers aren’t even following their own published rules:
“Here is a list of the supporting forms of ID that can be presented if the voter cannot obtain, and has a reasonable impediment or difficulty to obtaining one of the forms of acceptable photo ID:
Valid voter registration certificate
Certified birth certificate (must be an original)
Copy of or original current utility bill
Copy of or original bank statement
Copy of or original government check
Copy of or original paycheck
Copy of or original government document with your name and an address (original required if it contains a photograph)
After presenting a supporting form of ID, the voter must execute a Reasonable Impediment Declaration.”
I will tell my students of the regulation, and give them a copy of the League of Women Voters document (supplemented with the language directly from the SOS office.) That document includes this:
“It is also very important to note that:
• Election officials can’t question you about using one of the other types of ID.
• Poll watchers may never question any voter about voter ID issues!
• The address on your ID does not have to match your voter registration address!”
I want them to be prepared for themselves and anyone else they take with them!
6(BTW…thanks JJ!)
Frankly, those two evil men deserve to be stripped of: their offices, their voting rights for an undetermined number of years, their shorts. The last thing is of course only a whimsical thought. After all, who would want to see those two without their shorts? Heh heh, clad only in socks, shoes, shirt, tie and jacket.
7@Tilphousia:
8Leave them their shorts but give them a world-class wedgie.
Wow. I think I’ve discovered the method to their madn… er, douchebagery. They’ll give the rest of the country enough reasons to boot our asses out. No need for secession!
9“The evil that men do lives after them: the good is oft interred with their bones”, says Will Shakespeare. Unfortunately, these guys have no good to show for themselves, so just inter their mean, evil bones. NOW!
10Come on, DOJ, what are you waiting for?
I just don’t understand all the angst. If black voters showed up at the polls with concealed carry permits, ya’ll would have orderly elections guaranteed.
11I wanna say right now. Tomorrow morning we’re gonna read that the cia calls Donnie a DAMN liar for saying that they signaled to him that Obama didn’t follow their advice.
12When I lied (as small children do) my mother put a chili pequin on my tongue and made me close my mouth and leave it there until I was sure a flame was going to reach from me to the back of the garage. My tongue was sore for a day or more which she said would teach me to think before I spoke untruths.
That pretty much broke me of lying for at least the next two decades. I told friends that no, that new dress didn’t flatter them, and their boyfriend was cheating on them, and told my mother she left the L out of Stanley when she’djust finished carefully copying something in Hebrew and then his name on his bar mitzvah cake in blue icing on white and had to start all over and by the time I was out of high school, I had begun to realize that you don’t have to tell all the people all the truth you know right out in front of the whole world. In fact, there are sound reasons not to. For instance the time…(slaps self silly.)
13Hit SEND too soon….someone needs to pick about a dozen chili pequins, catch Paxton and Abbott, and give them the loving motherly treatment I had, at the grownup level of intensity.
They’re so used to lying–the lies roll so comfortably off their tongues–that they need a reminder every time they lie. So does Trump, of course. Fill that big ol’ sneering mouth of his with about a quarrter cup of the finest and ripest chili pequins, tie it shut for 30 seconds, and quickly explain that this will happen every time he lies.
14Elizabeth Moon, considering where their talk is coming from, I suggest the chili pequins be put where the sun don’t shine.
15Rhea… if you did that you’d still probably hit their tongues. Isn’t that where they keep their heads?
Hey Congressional Rs! Got an investigation for ya!
16I have a baby blue Voter Registration Certificate that was paid for by our taxes and mailed to my residence which also lists my polling place (which is not handicap accessible,btw).
Seems that would be a government document, and it’s a crime to falsify that document.
Now… what else should we need?
I guess a file stamp that we voted in the Republican Primary?
17“Bean Dip Dumb” again. On behalf of punditry everywhere, I’d like to apologize to all bean dip. Comparing it to conservative intellect is patently unfair.
Bean dip is real. Bean dip is wholesome and good. Bean dip makes the corn chips better.
[WHEREAS]
Conservative intellectualism is a myth. Conservatism is spiteful and mean. Conservatism makes life harder than it ought to be (for everyone but the rich).
(Oh, and also sorry about mixing in the leftover pickled jalapeno juice; I wasn’t about to pour it down the drain. So, sorry twice, but it did make for some tasty bean dip!)
18It gets better. Now the private plaintiffs are going after Ken Paxton and Stan Stanart for threatening voters who vote using affidavits http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/Veasey-PrivatePlaintiffsMotionToEnforce090716.pdf The article and declarations attached to this filing are amazing
19